Symbiosis International (Deemed University) (Established under section 3 of the UGC Act 1956, by notification No. F.9-12/2001-U3 Government of India) Re-accredited by NAAC with "A" Grade (3.58/4)Awarded Category - I by UGC
Induction Program for Batch 2018-20
Date: June 4, 2018 - Inauguration
Induction program for batch 2018-2020 was started with a positive note.
Session 1:
SSBF has invited Mr.Samuel Joseph, CGM, EXIM Bank as guest of honor. Mr. Rupesh Kumar Sharma, Regional Head, EXIM Bank accompanied Mr. Samuel Joseph as a chief guest.
It was indeed a wonderful experience having Sir at SSBF. Speech was really encouraging and motivating to our students and he has sent the right message across. Session was interactive and intriguing. Students have learnt many things from the dignitaries.
Session 2:
All the faculty members briefed about their respective area of expertise and committees.
Date: June 5, 2018 – Expert Speech
Session 1:
SSBF invited Mr. Vikas Dikshit, NLP expert to talk about how it will help in facing challenges in life.
Session 2:
Showed Anti-ragging films to students.
Session 3:
SSBF celebrated world environment day. A session conducted by Dr Ardhendu Shekhar Singh.
Date: June 6, 2018 – Pune Heritage Walk and Expert speech
Session 1:
Pune Heritage walk was organized to familiar 15 Heritage Spots covered, guided walk in English, Hindi & Marathi. MNC Events organized this heritage walk. Volunteers gave the information about various historical places and gave printed brochure to all the students. It was a wonderful experience. Students have enjoyed this tour thoroughly. Students are served snacks at the end of heritage walk.
Session 2:
SSBF organized an important session on Gender Sensitization by Ms. Renuka Mukadam.
Date: June 9, 2018 – Expert Speeches and Alumni Interaction
Session 1:
SSBF invited Mr. R Ravi Kumar as a Motivational Speaker. Speech was encouraging and motivating. Students liked this session and got inspired by the speech.
Session 2:
Alumni interaction was organized for the new batch. SSBF alumni interacted with the students and shared their knowledge and experience and gave valuable inputs and insights. Alumni talked about study, placements and life at SSBF. Alumni Mr. Soham Srivastav, Mr. Tejas Jadhav, Ms. Barira Khan, Mr. Siddharth Raghuvanshi, Ms. Sampada Ranganekar, Mr. Pranay have visited the campus and interacted with the students.
Session 3:
SSBF invited Mr. Aniruddha Mate, Senior Manager, CARE Ratings as Expert Speaker. Speech was encouraging and motivating.
Session 4:
SSBF invited Dr. Puja Malhan, Head Student Affairs, SIU to conduct briefing about Student’s affair cell.
Induction Program for Batch 2020-22
16th July 2020
For the first time ever, SSBF conducted an online Induction Program for Batch 2020-22 on 16th July 2020 to welcome new students. The purpose being to inculcate in them the ethos and culture of SSBF. The program began with a welcome speech by Dr. Manisha Ketkar, Director of Symbiosis School of Banking and Finance (SSBF), Symbiosis International University, Pune. The guests invited were Madam Padma Parthasarathy, Sr. VP and Global Head Consulting Tech Mahindra and Prashant Shinde, Sr. VP & Regional Head – Branch Banking of AU Small Finance Bank.
The event started off with Madam Padma Parthasarathy talking about the Digital Business Transformation trends in Financial Services. Focus was on new priorities for banks due to COVID. Such as Cost Income Ratio, Customer Service, Business Continuity Planning and Risk Management.
Mr. Prashant Shinde then furthered the discussion by explaining about small finance banks in India and financial inclusion strategies. He explained the importance of a new trend in the financial services sector which is “Skill development” and why it needs more attention in rural areas. Innovative ideas like nukkad natak for financial education and skill academies also dotted his discussion.
Both the guests enthusiastically took questions and queries from the students. Overall, the session was informative and was quite an insight for students entering the field of Banking and finance.
Induction Program for Batch 2018-20
Induction Program for Batch 2021-23
The Induction Program for Batch 2021-23 was conducted by Symbiosis School of Banking and Finance over the course of a week to welcome the students of the new batch. The purpose of the program was to inculcate the students into the culture of SSBF and slowly ease them into the MBA life while getting them properly equipped for the program. The briefing began on 5th July, 2021 with a welcome speech by Dr. Manisha Ketkar, Director of Symbiosis School of Banking and Finance.
It was followed by the welcome address for the Chief Guest Mr. P.D Singh, Managing Director of J.P Morgan, who enlightened the students with a short informational on Fintech transforming the Financial Services Landscape. An address on Emotional Intelligence by the Guest of Honor Brig. Dr. Sunil Kumar Moudgil added to the major takeaways for the students on the first day. The day ended with students attending the common SIU Induction Program.
The second day of Induction similarly had two important speeches in store for the news students - Investment Basics by Mr. Jeevan Bagul and Emotional Wellbeing by Dr. Girija Mahale, Head of SCEW, SIU. It was followed by the introduction of faculty members and student representatives from the seniors, who painted an amazing picture of the various activities undertaken by the student body through the Committee Briefings which continued through the next few days as well.
The next two days consisted mainly of various bridge courses which helped students catch up with important topics which they could have been unfamiliar with, along with a few informative sessions on topics like Shifting Trends in Credit Rating Services by Ms. Meghna Suryakumar, Founder &CEO Crediwatch, Gender Sensitization by Mrs. Renuka Mukadam, Diversity and Inclusion by Mr. Devendra Kumar. Briefings on the Academic Manual, an important source of information on the year wide curriculum and rules and the Administrative Policies and Guidelines were also held by Ms. Trupti Bhosale, the Deputy Director and Mrs. Shubadha Deshpande, the Administrative Officer respectively.
The penultimate day included important sessions such as Exam Briefing by Dr. Deepa Pillai, a Yoga Session by The Symbiosis Centre for Yoga and informational address on Entrepreneurship and Incubation Opportunities at Symbiosis by Mr. Yogesh Brahmankar and Dr. Ismail Akbani.
The program ended on the last day with a very active Alumni Interaction session, which gave the new students an interesting perspective on MBA life and what to expect, Dos and Don’ts and other fun instances. Last of all, a very verbal and bright Icebreaking Session was also conducted with the batch to make them more comfortable with their peers as well as the people they will be spending the next two years working and learning with. We congratulate the new batch and wish them the very best for their journey. A hearty welcome to SSBF!
Induction Program for Batch 2021-2023
Orientation Program for Batch 2019-21 on July 2020
CHANGING CONTOURS OF BANKING LEGISLATIONS
1st July, 2020: SSBF organized an interactive session on “Changing Contours of Banking Legislations”, in which Mr. Kunal Sarpal—Founder Partner, White Collar Legal, spoke about five key “disruptive” trends in the BFSI sector, and the legal implications they are likely to have.
The first such trend is the emergence of “neo-banks”. Neo-banks are 100 percent digital banks, which offer online services without the burden of a physical network.
On the flip-side, the emergence of neo-banks has increased the vulnerability to cyber-attacks. There are laws that dictate the liability of the bank in case an unauthorized transaction occurs due to its carelessness.
Next, he told that banks around the world are leveraging Robotic Process Automation to minimize the manual processing of huge data. European banks have to implement General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance with Robotic Process Automation.
Currently, there are no laws that govern the use of cryptocurrencies in India. Thus, the “Rule of Beneficial Construction” comes into play, according to which, whenever a law is silent on a matter, people can interpret the situation in their own way.
Towards the end, Mr. Sarpal urged the students to gather knowledge about banking laws around the globe. He gave several examples of banks that failed to comply with the legislative requirements, and how they had to face the consequences. These interesting examples caught the attention of the students, and they found the session quite intriguing and informative.
INDUSTRY’S EXPECTATIONS FROM STUDENTS
4th July, 2020: SSBF organized an interactive session on “Industry’s Expectations from Students”, in which Mr. Rajesh Acharya—Regional Product Manager, HDFC Bank, spoke about the do’s and don’ts as far as placements and career choices are concerned, keeping the current situation in mind.
Mr. Acharya suggested the students not to be highly selective about a particular job profile. Banking and Finance is a vast field, and students should grab any good opportunity that comes their way.
The employers look for qualities such as integrity, intelligence, energy levels, problem-solving skills, risk-taking ability and domain knowledge in a candidate. If a candidate is intelligent and has excellent problem-solving skills, but lacks integrity— that is a red flag.
He also gave some tips to the students that would come in handy after they join the corporate world. Taking continuous feedback from the manager is a great practice. The employee should not wait for the annual appraisals, but for each and every project he completes, he should ask his manager or supervisor for a feedback. This way, he would get to know where he is heading towards, and how he could improve.
He laid huge emphasis on ethics, and told the students about the best practices around professionalism and integrity of capital markets, duties to clients and employers, investment analysis and recommendations, and conflicts of interest and responsibilities. The students found the session quite intriguing and informative.
Kaleidoscope of Financial Landscape
On 1 st July 2020 SSBF organised orientation program for batch 2019-21. The sessions that followed were fully organised in an online format. There were loads of interactive discussions on the BFSI industry with experts giving their views on situations that would affect the industry post COVID-19. One such discussion was on “Kaleidoscope of Financial Landscape”. The speaker was Mr. Arindom Datta—Executive Director and Head of Rural & Development Banking at Rabo India Securities Pvt Ltd. He gave us essentials of the industry which will be relevant in determining how the industry would function once the lockdown is lifted.
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As the Orientation program continues for the students of Symbiosis School of Banking and Finance, todays memorable, stimulating and truly motivating session was headed by Mr. Bhupendra Tripathi who is currently working as the First 100% visually impaired manager of Reserve Bank of India.
Read MorePost Covid 19: Challenges before financial services sector
On 03rd July 2020 Symbiosis School of Banking and Finance had the privilege of organising and hosting a session on Post Covid 19: Challenges before financial services sector, addressed by Mr. Bhushan Kolekar, Ex-AGM State Bank of India, now a freelance advisor and trainer in banking, financial, leadership and soft-skills.
Read MoreMotivational Speech by Mr. Milind Mutalik
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” – Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Monk.
Read MoreTim Fargo rightly said, “Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today
On 4th July, 2020, the students of SSBF intermingled with some old familiar faces. From different batches, SSBF’s Alumni interacted with the students to give them an insight and a deeper outlook on how the outside world would treat them once they left SSBF’s cozy gates. The session started with an introductory round from each of the alumni and then progressed into an open forum where the students kept posting their queries and clearing out their doubts.
Read MoreDICHOTOMY AMIDST ECONOMY AND MARKETPLACES
7th July, 2020: SSBF organized an interactive session on “Dichotomy Amidst Economy and Marketplaces”, in which Dr. Aditya Srinivas— Chief Operating Officer, BSE Brokers Forum, spoke about the huge gap between the real economy and the stock market.
Read MoreCompetitive exams by Mr. Jyant Gautam
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” ~Jimmy Johnson. On 10th July 2020, the students of Symbiosis School of Banking and Finance had the golden opportunity to attend a session on “Competitive Exams” by Mr. Jyant Gautam, who is currently working with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as a Manager.
Read MoreInduction Programme for the Batch 19-21
It was a splendid morning for the new faces of the Symbiosis School of Banking and Finance. With fresh faces what tags along is new perspectives, new ideas, new meetings, new aspirations and most importantly new companions. A 10-day induction programme was planned for the batch to let them know how enthralling will be their 2 years journey at SSBF, lavale. The induction started by a speech by the director, Manisha Ketkar followed by briefing sessions by the faculties. The students had various guest lectures scheduled for them. The first session was a panel discussion by 4 prominent bankers who discussed about their expectations from the MBA graduates. Not only focussing on the banking sector several sessions on resource management, water management and emotional well-being were also planned for the batch. Apart from the guest lectures what was more fascinating for the batch was the Pune heritage walk and the inbound program. Inbound program was an opportunity for the students to get to know each other by interacting through various sports activities. Altogether the program was indeed a fresh start for the batch which will help them to strive throughout the journey.
Induction Program for Batch 2017-19
Date: June 5, 2017
Induction program for batch 2017-2019 was started with a positive note.
Session 1:
SSBF has invited Mr. Alok Sheopurkar, Executive Vice President and Head - HR at HDFC Asset Management Company Ltd. as a chief guest. Mr. Sheopurkar is also an advisory board member of SSBF.
It was indeed a wonderful experience having Sir at SSBF. Speech was really encouraging and motivating to our students and he has sent the right message across. Session was interactive and intriguing. He showed many examples and asked rhetorical questions. Students must have learnt many things from Mr. Sheopurkar.
Session 2:
On the special day of world environment day (5th June). Mrs. Shilpa Avate shared her research and experience on flora and fauna with our students. Pictures of wild life / birds / insects etc. were so beautiful. Finally the cartoons she has shown were appropriate to give the right message. (http://www.greenhumour.com/). She talked about the natural habitat of various animals and insects. It was a refreshing experience to listen to her. The message was very clear “Respect the Nature”.
Date: June 10, 2017
Session 1:
Dr. Shailesh Natu conducted a session on placements and internship and briefed about the eligibility, process and guidelines. Anti-ragging films are shown to students.
Session 2:
Alumni interaction was organized for the new batch. SSBF alumni interacted with the students and shared their knowledge and experience and gave valuable inputs and insights. Alumni talked about study, placements and life at SSBF. Alumni Mr. Bhargav Diwanji, Mr. Akshay Baregar, Mr. Vallabh Patil, Mr. Sunil Sawarikar, Mr. Sunil Kheria have visited the campus and interacted with the students.
Date: June 15, 2017
Session on Waste Resource Management
Dr. Sharad Kale, Head- Symbiosis Centre for Waste Resource Management conducted a session on Waste Resource Management. He sharing the knowledge and experience on how to reduce, avoid and control waste creation. The session was interactive and many students have shown interest in participating in such activities. Dr. Manik Dhanorkar and Ms. Sukhada also provided the valuable inputs.
Induction Program for Batch Batch 2016-18
The bright and ethusiastic freshers of batch 2016-18 of Symbiosis School of Banking and Finance(SSBF) were introduced to the new college life through an induction program that commenced on 6th to 11th June, 2016. The Chief Guest for the inaugural function was Mr. Vikas Modi, President - Human Capital Management, YES BANK, accompanied by Ms. Amishi Patel, Vice President - HCM. It was followed by a student-faculty interaction where the students were introduced to the system and were briefed about their responsibilities in various student committees.
A Workshop on Financial Planning, Understanding the capital markets, MFs, Banking Services, New Age Banking was conducted by Mr. Abhay Dandekar, an alumnus of IIT, Mumbai. He emphasized the importance of financial planning and the criticality of this sector. The students were also informed about the initiative of Symbiosis International University on Waste Management followed by a workshop on Stress Management by Dr. Bindya Kohli, an assistant professor at SSBF comprised of the second day of induction programme.
A discussion on Start-up Ideas Competition and Incubation opportunities by Prof. Vinod Shastri, Deputy Director of SIBM, Pune; a workshop on confidence building by Mr. Yogiraj Khanwelkar was conducted who stressed on eliminating mental blocks in oneself to succeed in all walks of life; a motivational and refreshing workshop on leadership by Prof. P.N.N. Iyer was refreshing for the students were a part of the 3rd day of the induction programme.
To make the students who hailed from different parts of the country know and appreciate the heritage and culture of Maharashtra, a one-day heritage tour was organised by the management in association with Janwani, a NGO. As the life at SSBF requires high co-operation and understanding among the batch mates, a two-day outbound program at Kolad was conducted by Empower Activity Camp that helped bring out some leadership skills of the students.
Last day of the induction program started with an interaction with the Alumni of SSBF who represented all the batches passed out from the SSBF. They shared their experience of working in the financial sector and resolved various apprehensions of the new batch about working in the BFSI sector. A workshop on Gender sensitivity conducted by Mrs. Renuka Mukadam, SATHI-CEHAT, Pune enlightened the students about the different facets of gender and explained the need to be empathetic towards others and avoid stereotypes prevalent in the society.
Click here to view Induction 2016 image gallery11th November, 2019: To start the new semester with zeal, students of SSBF were taken to Adventure Plus Resort, Pune for a refreshing outbound program.
Surrounded by tranquil nature, Adventure Plus Resort islocated in Taluka Bhor, and quite known for its adventurous activities.
We left for the resort early morning. After having reached the resort, we were allotted tent houses to stay in, after which we started with the first activity: the Army Obstacle Course. We had to cross challenging obstacles that included Spider Web, Wire Obstacle, Rope Climbing, Plank Balance and Aerial Slides. Next, were Air Rifle Shooting and Archery, after which we lined up for Rock Climbing and Zip-line rappelling.
We had a great time Kayaking,it was fun trying to understand the nuances of steering a Kayak. At night, after an appetizing dinner, we sat around a campfire, relaxed, and told each other horror stories.
Next morning, we went to see Bhatghar Dam, which is an amazing piece of British-era engineering. View of the surrounding hills from the reservoir was breathtaking.
After coming back to the resort, we had group activities lined up, arranged by SSBF faculty. Firstly, we had a group relay race, in which groups had to compete against one another. Next, we played “Blindfold Pickup” and then a game of “Tug of War”. After every game, students were asked to share their learnings.
Outbound activities are designed to improve leadership, communication, teamwork and motivation. Those were two great days of exciting activities.
Outbound 2018-20
Date: June 7, 8, 2018 – Outbound Program
SSBF organized outbound program for new batch (2018-2020) at Empower activity camp, Kolad, Maharashtra. It was two days program consisting of outdoor activities with varied objectives to achieve.
Objectives of this program were:
Students relished the memorable experience of staying in tents and connecting with nature.
Outbound 2017-19
Date: June 8, 9, 2017 – Pune Heritage Walk and Outbound program
Session 1:
Pune Heritage walk was organized to familiar 15 Heritage Spots covered, guided walk in English, Hindi & Marathi. MNC Events organized this heritage walk. Volunteers gave the information about various historical places and gave printed brochure to all the students. It was a wonderful experience. Students have enjoyed this tour thoroughly. Students are served ‘Mastani Ice-cream’ which is spatiality of Pune.
Session 2:
SSBF organized outbound program for new batch (2017-2019) at Empower activity camp, Kolad, Maharashtra. It was two days program consisting of outdoor activities with varied objectives to achieve.
Objectives of this program were:
Students relished the memorable experience of staying in tents and connecting with nature.
Outbound 2016-18
To make the students who hailed from different parts of the country know and appreciate the heritage and culture of Maharashtra, a one-day heritage tour was organised by the management in association with Janwani, a NGO. As the life at SSBF requires high co-operation and understanding among the batch mates, a two-day outbound program at Kolad was conducted by Empower Activity Camp that helped bring out some leadership skills of the students.
