Bloomberg UTV Announces The Winners Of Financial Leadership Awards 2011, India's Biggest Awards For The Financial Industry

Online, March 28, 2011 (Newswire.com) - BloombergUTV, India's premiere business news channel along with MCX hosted the inaugural edition of 'Financial Leadership Awards 2011 - The Final Word in Money" in Mumbai. These unique awards acknowledged and honoured the extraordinary contribution made by India's financial leaders and visionaries in creating necessary impetus to drive the growth of Indian financial sector. The Chief Guest Hon'ble Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee gave away these awards at a ceremony that witnessed convergence of best names from Indian financial services including Banks, Insurance, Mutual Funds, Commodity Broking, Equity Broking and Currency Broking.

Commenting on the occassion, Mr Deepak Lamba, Business Head, BloombergUTV said, "Financial Leadership Awards 2011 - The Final Word in Money" recognizes that the Indian Financial Community is an important link in the upward spiral of economy. The current growth story continues to attract existing as well as potential investors to become active on the transactional floor. BloombergUTV believes that, in such a scenario, it is imperative to recognize the best amongst the stalwarts so as to facilitate the Need for Excellence and support future endeavours of the stars of the Indian Financial community. Sharing this common vision, our special jury comprising of best names in Indian Economics and presenting partner MCX joined hands with us to create the most comprehensive, authentic and exhaustive platform to honour performers and emerging stars of the Indian Financial Markets."

The unique Awards platform recognized companies in the Indian financial community for their excellent performance. The selection process of the final winners was based on various parameters through a detailed methodology, reliable process validation and research conducted by ICRA. The methodology adopted in choosing the winners of Financial Leadership Awards focused not only on the financial performance of the winners but also on the consistency of their performance.

The Financial Leadership Awards ceremony saw the best in business being felicitated with aspirants vying for their due recognition by striving harder for perfection to get better at their own business. "Such an endeavor will provide added impetus to escalate the growth of the Indian financial sector in the next few years," Mr Lamba concludes.

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Bloomberg UTV, India's premiere Business news channel is a strategic partnership between Bloomberg L.P., the global leader in business information, and the promoters (founders) of UTV, India's leading integrated media and entertainment enterprise. With an enviable squad of Indian journalists, power of over 2500 professionals across the globe and a network of 145 bureaus, Bloomberg UTV is product of local news gathering, production and distribution expertise combined with the world class financial news capabilities and global reach. The channel's positioned as an enabler that cuts out the terminology and presents the honest truth. It ushers in the investment culture to a whole new class of Indian growth aspirants that have somewhat been alienated with the erstwhile genre offering. Powered with thought leadership across markets, news and path breaking features, Bloomberg UTV aims to lead this attitudinal shift where the intimidating numbers will give way to usable knowledge and clarity...and aptly create a business news delivery format that's Blunt. And Sharp.