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Awards · BFSI

Brand Builder of the Year, in the category that’s hardest to build one.

Recognition in financial-services marketing — where regulation, restricted endorsements and hard-won trust make brand-building genuinely difficult.

The recognition

Brand Builder of the Year at the Great Indian BFSI Awards 2025 — recognition for the brand transformation work at Motilal Oswal, in a category where building a brand is constrained at every turn.

Winning ‘brand builder’ in BFSI means building a brand where the rules say you barely can.

The context

Why this one matters

BFSI is the category where brand-building is hardest: no urgency tactics, restricted celebrity endorsement, heavy compliance, and customers who’ve learned to distrust. Recognition for brand-building here is recognition for doing it under real constraint.

The work behind it

What it points to

The award follows the work: repositioning a 40-year-old brokerage as a wealth partner, moving market share from 1.6% to 4.3%, and building owned media in a category that usually rents it. The trophy is a marker; the share shift is the substance.

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