Shaktikanta Das, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, has been recognized with the ‘Governor of the Year Award’ for 2023 by Central Banking, a UK-based financial publisher that specializes in public policy and financial markets. Central Banking’s focus is on central banks, international financial institutions, and financial market infrastructure and regulation.
According to the award citation, the RBI governor has cemented critical reforms, overseen world-leading payments innovation, and steered India through difficult times with a steady hand and well-crafted turn of phrase.
Central Banking has presented the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) with the ‘Central Bank of the Year Award’ for maintaining financial and macroeconomic stability in the face of extreme shocks.
The Central Banking Awards 2023 recognise excellence in a community that had faced significant policy and operational challenges amid heightened inflationary pressures, rapid technological change and environmental transition. Many institutions have also made significant improvements in their governance, operations, communications, economics, currency, reserves and market infrastructure capabilities.
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