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Licious announces association with ‘Bigg Boss’
Mumbai: The famous meat brand Licious has been associated with the country’s most popular and longest-running reality show, Bigg Boss, for its latest season.
As part of this unique integration, Licious will cater to contestants’ meat cravings by setting up an experiential zone called The Licious Greed Zone in the house.
Bigg Boss is arguably the most preferred prime-time viewing by fans of the show, and adding to its charm is the host, Salman Khan. The iconic show enjoys a plethora of celebrity associations and brand engagements, which is a testimony to the show’s value.
Joining this club, Licious will be offering its assorted range of premium quality and delectable varieties of fresh meat, seafood, and ready-to-cook items in the house. The tie-up will also roll out an interactive contest, where Bigg Boss fans will get a chance to vote for their favourite Licious staple on the Licious app. The most-voted dish will be available in the Licious Greed Zone inside the Bigg Boss House. The dish with the maximum number of votes will find its way to the participants, also giving the audience a chance to become a part of the show. To take things a notch higher, three lucky voters will get the golden chance of meeting Bollywood superstar Salman Khan!
Speaking about the association, Licious vice president of brand development Santosh Hegde said, “Bigg Boss is the epitome of entertainment and laughter. The show comes with a massive reach and an ever-increasing viewership, which only makes it a perfect platform for integration. At Licious, we are always looking out for moments to bring people together because food is the greatest emotion for all of us, and nobody knows meat like us! Our partnership with Bigg Boss is an exciting move through which we are ready to showcase our wide variety of products, catering to every taste and craving. What makes it better is that the audience will also get an opportunity to help their favourite housemates get the best of Licious via the greed zone.”
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YES Bank appoints S Anantharaman as chief risk officer
Former Jio Financial Services group chief risk officer takes charge of enterprise-wide risk at the embattled private lender
MUMBAI: YES Bank is not taking chances with risk anymore. The private lender has appointed S Anantharaman as its chief risk officer, a hire that signals the bank’s continued effort to rebuild credibility and tighten the controls that once famously slipped.
Anantharaman arrives from Jio Financial Services, where he served as group chief risk officer and built a risk management architecture spanning lending, payments, insurance broking and asset management from the ground up. Before that, he held the chief risk officer role at Bank of Baroda and senior leadership positions at HDFC Bank and L&T Finance Holdings. Three decades in banking and financial services, in other words, with scars and qualifications to match. He is a chartered accountant and a CFA charterholder.
At YES Bank, his brief is considerable. Anantharaman will oversee the bank’s entire enterprise-wide risk framework, covering credit policy, market risk, operational risk, information security, data governance, analytics, model governance and data privacy. It is, in short, every lever that matters when a bank is trying to prove it has grown up.
YES Bank’s turbulent past needs little rehearsing. What it needs now is exactly what Anantharaman has spent thirty years building: the kind of risk culture that stops problems before they become headlines. The appointment suggests the bank knows it.
