SBI chief in Bloomberg magazine's list

The list consists of 10 people in each of the five categories - money managers, thinkers, corporate power brokers, bankers and policymakers

Hyderabad: State Bank of India's (SBI) first woman chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya been featured in the '50 Most Influential' list of Bloomberg Markets.

Bhattacharya, who is the only Indian woman to be present in the list, is featured in the 'bankers' category, SBI said in a release on Wednesday.

The list will appear in the magazine's October 2014 special issue.

"Bhattacharya runs India's biggest bank and is pushing politicians to abandon their practice of forgiving loans, saying that it corrupts the credit culture," Bloomberg Markets said in a citation statement.

The final list consists of 10 people in each of the five categories - money managers, thinkers, corporate power brokers, bankers and policymakers.

"We select individuals based on what they're doing now, rather than past achievements, and almost three-fifths of this year's list is made up of people who are appearing for the first time," the magazine said.

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