ETMarkets Pre-Budget meet: What to bank on? SBI Chief may have the answer

In these times of worries about the economy and the banking sector who better than the State Bank of India chair man Arundhati Bhattacharya to provide a clear view on what is in store. The chief of the nation's biggest bank with a fifth of the market share will be the keynote speaker at the ET Markets PreBudget round table at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai on Friday.

Investors are looking at state-run banks as if they do not have tomorrow. Is it the case?

Bhattacharya will tell you the real story. There is competition from payments companies threatening banking industry's future. How is SBI preparing?
What can the industry do to safeguard its position?

And above all, the Union Budget.There are issues of capital for banks, fiscal prudence, spending on infrastructure to boost investments, government borrowing and transmission of lower interest rate to borrowers. What can the government and the Reserve Bank of India do? Listen to Bhattacharya on ET Now, Live, this evening from 7 p.m.