Mr. Arun Kumar Singh is a former Senior Central Banker and has a wide and rich experience of working in RBI for 35 years in the field of Banking and Non-Banking Regulation & Supervision, Enforcement actions against banks & non-banks, Information Technology, Financial Inclusion, Monetary Policy, Government Banking, etc. He has acted as Principal Inspecting Officer / Senior Supervisory Manager for various commercial banks and NBFCs and has actively participated in first Asset Quality Review (AQR) of banks as well as Risk-based Supervision (RBS) related processes and development. He has been associated with committees / working groups related to operational risk, MCLR, stress testing, payment & small finance banks, prompt corrective action, financial resolution, returns rationalisation, etc. He was involved in framing banking policies in various capacities. As head of Enforcement Department, he was responsible for enforcement action against commercial banks, small finance and payment banks, NBFCs, cooperative banks, credit information companies, payment system operators, asset reconstruction companies, etc. He was also the head of Information Technology, Reserve Bank of India, spearheading technological development in RBI, particularly, in the areas of Currency Management, Government Banking, Payment System, e-Kuber, Cyber Security, Data Centre upgradation, Internal Applications, IT Infrastructure, etc. He was Regional Director for Rajasthan and carried out his Central Banking responsibilities in the areas of currency management, financial inclusion, financial literacy, banking / non-banking development, Government banking, etc. in the state of Rajasthan.

He has served as RBI nominee director on the Board of Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank (RRB), Union Bank of India, Reserve Bank Information Technology Pvt. Ltd. (ReBIT), Mumbai, Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBiH), Bengaluru, and Institute for Development in Research and Banking Technology (IDRBT), Hyderabad. Arun has completed his graduation in Economics and MBA in Finance and HR. He is also a Certified Associate of the India Institute of Banking (CAIIB).