2006
Started with in-house journal
Finsight Media started in 2006 as a partnership concern with offices in Pune and Vadodara, India, specialising in content marketing, custom publishing, research, analysis and aggregation & dissemination of business knowledge for financial services and financial technology domains.
Our first project was a monthly journal CRO (Compliance, Risk, and Opportunity) which was the only one of its kind in India. Within a few months of its launch in October 2006, CRO was considered by Indian financial services industry an indispensable source of in-depth, independent and objective information in the areas of risk management, compliance and emerging opportunities. We also created a vibrant community around CRO under the CROConnect banner.
2007
Redesigned ‘The Indian Banker’, the flagship monthly journal of IBA and began custom-publishing it. Started Content Marketing Services.
In 2007, Indian Banks' Association (IBA) wanted to redesign their flagship monthly journal ‘The Indian Banker’. IBA outsourced the content, design, publishing, advertisement sale, printer and subscription management to Finsight. We brought out the first redesigned issue of The Indian Banker in June 2007 which was appreciated by the entire industry.
We are custom publishing ‘The Indian Banker’ for IBA since 2007.
We conceptualised, conducted and created text for interviews of a bank chairman in each issue. We also started Annual Risk and Compliance Summit jointly with IBA.
We provided content creation and content marketing services to Oracle. I-Flex, 3i-Infotech et al. in the form of White Papers, Case Studies and Segment-focused Newsletters. We created quarterly newsletters for content marketing services under the titles of FinEdge and Pulse for a major financial technology service provider for its MEA and Indian markets respectively. Similar services were provided to Asset Reconstruction Corporation of India Limited (ARCIL) for a quarterly newsletter titled ‘Asset’.
2008
Market Research
Created IBA-Finsight joint research reports as a market research initiative which we offered to sponsors like TCS, NCR, and IBM. We designed the survey, administered it through collecting responses and personal interviews, tabulated and analysed the responses culminating in a well-designed research report. Some titles were: Operational BI, ‘From Compliance to Internal Assessment’, Retail Lending and ATMs.
2009
Provided Knowledge Aggregation services to State Bank of India for Bankers’ Conference (BanCon) 2009-10 in the form of Compendium of Research Papers and Conference Report Book
Finsight Media Private Limited was incorporated with a change of ownership at its registered office in Vadodara. Created Compendium of BanCon Research papers and Conference Report by State Bank of India. Won this order for subsequent years from Central Bank of India, Indian Overseas Bank, Bank of Maharashtra and Bank of India respectively till it was last held in 2013.
Indian Banker custom publishing contract was extended for next three years.
Bank of Maharashtra outsourced content for an inaugural speech by Hon’ble President of India Pratibha Patil marking the beginning of their Diamond Jubilee year.
2010
Custom publishing services to Central bank of India for the booklet of Budget Speeches by Shri Pranab Mukherjee.
2011
Organised Conferences
Organised Finsight & Oracle Customer Centricity Executive Roundtable
Organised IBA-Finsight Conference on ‘Innovation, Risk & Regulation’
Content marketing services to Experian
2013
Co-organised the Conference for IBEX India Expo 2013 as its exclusive Media Partner. IBA retained our end-to-end custom publishing services for The Indian Banker’ for another three years
2015
Organised Financial Technology Conference, FINTEC 2015 jointly with Erst Media
2016
Focus on Custom Publishing
Created a special publication for Ministry of Finance, Government of India by sourcing content and interviewing key participants in the Workshop on Financial Inclusion, BRICS 2016.
IBA retained our end-to-end custom publishing services for The Indian Banker’ for another three years
2017
Content Creation and Content Marketing Services
Conceptualised and customised country-specific agenda for three events for a leading Fintech multinational company. Created content for their outreach and thought leadership.
Hari Misra is known to me for the last three decades. I have seen him evolve from a successful banker to a banking technology professional; then transforming himself into a very successful columnist and editor of repute, and finally becoming an innovative and successful entrepreneur. He has an excellent analytical ability and diction.
His publishing venture, Finsight Media, is one of the leading names in BFSI domain of publishing in India. Finsight Media is consistently making available high standard academic and research inputs to the banking industry.
