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ICICI Lombard and IIT Bombay crown winners of Igniting Minds 2025
MUMBAI: ICICI Lombard’s flagship case-study challenge, IL Igniting Minds 2025 season three, wrapped up in Mumbai with a burst of ideas, energy and campus talent. Run in partnership with IIT Bombay’s E-Cell, the competition drew more than 4000 student registrations from over 500 leading institutes, making this edition the most extensive yet.
Centred on the theme unlocking SME insurance growth in India, the challenge asked students to rethink how small and medium enterprises can access and adopt insurance. With over 6.3 crore SMEs powering India’s economy but still grappling with low insurance penetration, participants were encouraged to reimagine product design, digital pathways and smarter distribution strategies.
This year broadened the competition’s reach, building on earlier editions held with IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow and Nmims, which together engaged more than 4500 students across 700 campuses.
ICICI Lombard head of marketing, corporate communications and CSR Sheena Kapoor, said the response surpassed expectations. She noted that the season brought together thousands of young minds brimming with curiosity and purpose and praised the finalists for delivering sharply reasoned solutions backed by real-world insight.
The grand finale at ICICI Lombard’s Mumbai office saw students present their ideas to senior leaders. IIT Delhi claimed the winning title, while IIM Ranchi secured the first runner-up position. Both teams were felicitated by the company’s leadership, rounding off a season that proved both competitive and creatively charged.
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Paisabazaar launches Credit Premier League 2.0
Nationwide campaign rewards highest credit scores with Rs 1 lakh top prize.
MUMBAI: When credit scores become a national league, even your CIBIL report starts feeling like it’s playing in the IPL and Paisabazaar has just kicked off the second season. Paisabazaar, India’s leading marketplace for financial products and the country’s largest free credit score platform, has announced the return of the Credit Premier League (CPL) 2.0, a fun, nationwide initiative to recognise and reward individuals with the highest credit scores.
Building on the success of the first edition, CPL 2.0 introduces higher rewards and broader participation. The individual(s) with the highest credit score in the country will win Rs 1 lakh, while state champions will each receive Rs 10,000. Additionally, all participants from the winning state, the one with the highest average credit score will also be rewarded.
All winnings will be credited directly to winners’ PB Wallet, allowing them to pay credit card bills, recharge mobiles, or settle utility bills seamlessly on the Paisabazaar platform.
Paisabazaar CEO Santosh Agarwal said the campaign aims to make credit awareness more engaging and mainstream. “With CPL, we are bringing together engagement, gamification and rewards to make conversations around credit scores more mainstream,” he noted. “Our focus remains on building a financially aware and credit-healthy Bharat.”
The first edition of CPL saw over 5.5 million participants, with the highest individual score touching 861. Delhi recorded the highest average credit score of 746.
Consumers can participate simply by checking their free credit score on the Paisabazaar platform or app. The CPL leaderboard and rankings will be available exclusively on the Paisabazaar App.
In a country where financial dreams are serious business, Paisabazaar has found a smart way to turn credit scores into an exciting game – because when your financial health gets rewarded, everyone wants to play.
