MUMBAI: Bankers Chanda Kochhar and Arundhati Bhattacharya have been ranked as top two in a list of most powerful women in Asia Pacific prepared by the global magazine Fortune.
Kochhar, 53, who heads the country's largest private sector lender ICICI BankBSE 1.80 % has been ranked at the top, up from the second position last year, the magazine said on its website.
It credited Kochhar with reshaping banking in the country, and for building ICICI Bank into the "nation's largest.