Brands
Lotto puts its best foot forward with Happy Feet
MUMBAI: Lotto is letting its feet do the talking. Riding high on early success in India’s sportswear and athleisure scene, the brand has launched Happy Feet, a campaign celebrating the simple yet profound way our feet express energy, joy, and individuality.
The film pairs modern, dynamic visuals with the iconic Kishore Kumar and R.D. Burman track Yeh jawani hai deewani, capturing everyday moments where every step tells a story. It’s a playful, youth-driven narrative that positions feet as the ultimate storytellers, and Lotto as the brand empowering them.
Happy Feet also kicks off a wider community movement, inviting audiences to celebrate authenticity and personality in motion. With this campaign, Lotto reinforces its place in India’s growing sneaker culture, blending heritage with contemporary relevance.
Agilitas, holding exclusive rights for Lotto in India, South Africa, and Australia, plans to expand the brand into sportswear, apparel, and accessories over the next year, signalling a shift in the market towards performance-driven yet personality-packed sportswear.
Brands
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.
