SME, MSME, bank, bank loan, loan from bank, SME loan, SME branch,
Looking at the issues faced by MSMEs in borrowing money from banks, one really wonders why this...
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Has RBI realised that food inflation cannot be tamed through repo rate hike alone or is it just...
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investment advisors, SEBI, financial products, SEC, financial advisor, investment advisors regulation,
With the new Regulations from SEBI, the tribe of investment advisors will hardly grow in India...
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mutual funds, mutual fund, AMFI, benchmark, benchmark index, Sensex, Nifty, equity,
In the desire to beat benchmarks, many mutual fund schemes end up adopting strategies which do...
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SMEs, MSMEs, banks, credit, RBI, priority sector lending
MSMEs being the backbone of economy have been in need of funds to grow themselves but banks have...
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RBI, banks, Reserve Bank, stock market, shares, securities, Basel III, financial crisis, financial institutions, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, too big to fail, rbis
RBI's approach on too big to fail gives more weightage to factors such as securities issued and...
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Bhartiya Mahila Bank, financial inclusion, kitchen loans, women’s bank, entrepreneurship, banks, Reserve Bank of India.
Mahila Bank is apparently giving “kitchen loan” as per the initial press reports. Kitchen is the...
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Volcker Rule, insured depository institution, proprietary trading, Federal Reserve
Four years after Paul Volcker suggested that banks should not do proprietary trading (a cause of...
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financial literacy, investors, knowledge, skills, compounding, discounting, savings, investments.
Here are five key constituents of financial literacy which investors needs to equip with, in...
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credit card, debit card, ATM card, ATMs, card swiping, credit card fraud, online frauds,
With expected increase in card-based transactions and movement towards paperless transactions,...
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repo rate, RBI, Reserve Bank of India, inflation, fiscal deficit, foodgrain supply, populist measures, Dr Raghuram Rajan
The war against inflation needs support of government, which needs to reign in fiscal deficit,...
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service sector, India, services, consumers,
India is an economy based on services sector. However, do we really provide even basic services...
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money laundering, hawala, money-laundering, terrorism, terrorists, terror finance, HSBC,
Country risk rating can work as an effective tool only if there is a broad co-operation among...
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corporate governance, transparency, disclosure, NSEL, Financial Technologies, SEBI, accountability
The managing director went on record to say that NSEL has sufficient stocks in warehouses to...
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Raghuram Rajan, RBI, Reserve Bank of India, Raghu Rajan, RBI Governor, inflation, currency, depreciating rupee, repo rates, GDP growth
The new governor of RBI, who rose to fame when he predicted the US crisis, has a lot of work to...
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Government bond, government bonds, bond, bonds, fixed income investment, bond investment, bond investments, investing in bonds, investment in bond, investment in bonds,
Government bonds are rarely explored as an investment option by retail investors, due to...
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The recent market fall is not all about economic crisis. Implementation of healthy corporate...
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investments, inflation, financial assets, financial markets, bank deposits, provident fund, pension.
Five business news channels, so many newspapers, magazines and websites would not be able...
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National Spot Exchange, NSEL, novation, MCX, spot transaction, Financial Technologies, stock exchange.
NSEL crisis has in fact opened a Pandora’s Box. There are reports that the government knew about...
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financial market, stock market, bond market, currency market, forex market, equity, gold.
While policy makers are grappling with management of volatility in currency and banks are...
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