Slow moving insurance sector needs a push from the new Bill

As the industry awaits amendments in the existing Insurance Bill, Nupur Pavan Bang walks us through the ups and downs in the sector since its liberalisation in 1956, and impact the new Bill will......

Most banks wary of growing unsecured loan portfolio

With memories of the bitter experience faced by the banking industry in 2008, most Indian banks prefer going for the safest bet - the home loans market - to grow the unsecured loan portfolio.For......

Show us the coal, banks tell power companies

In a toughening of stand on their exposure to the power sector, banks have started refusing to disburse sanctioned loans to generation companies unless these firms are able to convince them about a......

How not to let culture issues defeat mergers

Eight months after acquiring the semi-express carrier Speedage, mail company TNT India is still integrating the two entities. It was in September 2006 that global express logistics major TNT, one......