Chakradhar Kale

About

Chakradhar Kale

Chakradhar founded and independently runs The Finvocates, including ComplAI. He is presently a Compliance Trainee in the CCO's team at a small finance bank, and a law student at Government Law College, Mumbai.

Financial Services Regulatory Practice Banking & Finance

Currently

Compliance Trainee, a Small Finance Bank

In the CCO's team since the nascent stage of the bank (04 December 2023 – present), working across:

Assets / Business vertical — compliances under the RBI Master Directions on Fraud Risk Management, and Income Recognition & Asset Classification.

Liabilities / Customers vertical — operating-framework support across Customer Service, Information Security and Branch Compliance Reviews.

KYC & AML vertical — regulatory information dissemination support on the RBI Master Direction on KYC.

Regulatory Reporting vertical — hands-on execution support in fraud reporting across the organisation, and coordination with the RBI upon expansion of touchpoints.

Beyond the four verticals: automating compliance workflows on the PwC Compliance Monitoring Tool, MS Power Automate and MS Copilot; drafting board agendas and RBI correspondence for approvals, licences, management changes, investment intimations and board updates; and acting as point of contact for external vendors, advisory firms, consultants and law firms, on payments for structured deals.


Timeline

Education & experience


Recognition

Beyond the CV

Bootstrapped and fully automated The Finvocates LinkedIn page from the ground up — now past 1,100 followers and indexed #1 for the keyword "The Finvocates."

Silver (2022) and Bronze (2021) awards, Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition, an international competition.

Invitee to Pariksha Pe Charcha 2020, hosted by the Prime Minister's Office — one of the top 0.4% among 2.63 lakh applicants nationally.