Manish Jaiswal

MD & CEO, Magma Housing Finance & SME Business at Poonawalla Fincorp

Mr. Manish Jaiswal is the CEO of Magma Housing Finance & SME Business. He is an engineer from VNIT, Nagpur and has done his Fast Track General Management from IIM, Bangalore.

Mr. Jaiswal has over 27 years of deep domain experience in Banking & Financial services industry and Heavy Engineering Industry. Mr Jaiswal joined Magma after a successful 5 year stint from CRISIL where he spearheaded businesses of Risk Advisory, Risk Solutions, Research and SME Ratings. In his Risk Advisory stint with Crisil, he pioneered the implementation of Basel III with most banks, NBFCs in domestic and EEMEA region. Mr Jaiswal was an eminent member on SEBI committee of Corporate Bonds and Securitization Advisory Committee (CoBoSAC) and was also led consulting with the country’s foremost pension funds and regulators be it EPFO, PFRDA. He was also a member of Usha Thorat Committee which promulgated the charter on “Revitalization of Distressed Assets”

Prior to Crisil, Mr. Jaiswal has deep specialisation in building businesses grounds up or turning them around in great institutions like Citi, Fullerton ( A Temasek Company), Eicher Motors and Dhanbank. His deep skill and proficiency has been SME Banking and Assets Backed Financing and he has built assets of more than 15000 crores in the last 20 years.