Depositors of 21 banks, including Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank, will receive up to Rs5 lakh from the deposit insurance & credit guarantee corporation (DICGC) within 90 days or by 29 December 2021 under the all-inclusive directions (AID).    The DICGC (Amendment) Act,...

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Like many other textiles stocks, Ambika Cotton Mills (Ambika) has more than doubled from around Rs700 per share a year ago to around Rs1,600 currently. The management follows a conservative, almost a zero-debt policy, financing capacity expansions through internal accruals. This, along with...

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Things at Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) seem to be moving too fast and strangely. Days after the company’s largest shareholder called for an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to remove Punit Goenka as managing director (MD), the board of directors of Zee Entertainment has...

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Ever since the National Stock Exchange (NSE) scrapped the TER (trade execution range) with effect from 16th August, freak trades in the derivatives segment of NSE had become a recurring routine event. Traders, who regularly suffered huge losses, have expressed outrage on social media every...

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In the aftermath of the pandemic, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been at the forefront of stabilising the financial system to keep liquidity in surplus mode. The average net durable liquidity injected into the banking system since April 2021 is at Rs9.3 lakh crore. However, the excess...

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To quicken the pace of stressed asset resolution, the Centre may soon come up with a prepackaged insolvency framework under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) for large corporates, similar to the one introduced for SMEs.   Official sources said that discussion on having a...

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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has imposed a penalty of Rs1 lakh each on the promoter-director and system administrator of Kolkata-based Excel Stock Broking Pvt Ltd for violating the provisions about the access to secondary servers of the National Stock Exchange (NSE)’s...

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Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has mandated that all designated employees of asset management companies (AMC) be paid up to 20% of their monthly compensation in units of the schemes in which they have a role or oversight. According to SEBI, this move would make...

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In a welcome relief, lenders to Dewan Housing Finance Corporation (DHFL) may start receiving payment from Piramal Capital and Housing Finance (PCHFL) this week. DHFL has been undergoing insolvency proceedings at National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in Mumbai since 3 December...

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Paras Defence and Space Technologies Ltd (PDSTL) is involved in designing, developing, manufacturing and testing of tier-2 defence and space engineering products and solutions in the domain of defence and space optics, defence electronics, electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) protection solutions and...

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The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT)'s Mumbai bench has asked to freeze assets, including bank accounts and lockers, owned by former promoters of Metalyst Forging Ltd. The ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) had filed an application seeking recovery of over Rs3,454 crore in financial...

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The number of ‘unicorns’ has surged in India in recent years, enabled by the rise of the internet ecosystem, availability of private capital and favourable regulatory environment. This year, the amount of money raised through initial public offerings (IPOs) has reached the equivalent of US$10...

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Paying heed to the concerns raised by several organisations over the possibility of failure of millions of e-mandates or auto-debits because all banks have not upgraded their systems, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had extended the compliance timeline by six months in April this year. Now...

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Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, has initiated an investigation into the conduct of its legal representatives in India, The Morning Context reported.   This investigation comes on the back of a whistleblower complaint alleging that certain monies paid by Amazon in legal...

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Private equity (PE) investor Advent International is buying a controlling stake in Eureka Forbes Ltd, a group company of the Shapoorji Pallonji group (SPG). The transaction values Eureka Forbes at an enterprise value of Rs4,400 crore, subject to closing adjustments.   In a statement,...

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Numerical presents the universe in numbers. It aspires to bring an entirely different way for the world to consume, engage and interact with information. It does so by blending the two most powerful technologies of our generation—data and social media.   From agriculture, art and...

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The standard narrative of most talk shows, media articles and investor presentations suggests consolidation in the real estate market. The general perception is that the demonetisation and introduction of the Real Estate Regulatory Authority Act (RERA) and goods and service tax (GST)...

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Asset management companies, Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC and ICICI Prudential AMC, have recently launched a new type of open-ended debt scheme that comes with a maturity date.    We will review the two schemes–ABSL Nifty SDL Plus PSU Bond Sep 2026 60:40 Index Fund and ICICI Pru PSU Bond...

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HDFC Asset Management, the asset manager to HDFC Mutual Fund, has launched a new fund-of-funds (FoF) that will indirectly invest in 23 developed markets globally.   This is a unique scheme that offers exposure to various markets abroad under the same roof. Let us find out more about...

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At long last, Diego Alphonso Dias, known in our bank as DAD, bought our case for a third man in the dealing room, based on the logic that two dealers were needed to do forex trading, one at the Reuters monitor to track the rates and the other at the telex doing the deals. Two months of the...

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