Traditionally, issuance from Chinese companies dominate the green bond market, but other emerging market economies are coming up fast
Wipro, Steel Authority of India, HDFC Bank, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam, Bharat Heavy Electricals and Reliance Commnications among companies reporting a decline in headcount in FY17.
Mid- and small-cap companies seem to have done better than top-tier companies
The move will have cascading effects for lot of related sectors
A combination of farm loan debt waivers by state governments and the implementation of the pay commission award could entail some fiscal slippages and pose a risk to inflation
Recent tribunal rulings open prospects of large haircuts and barriers to auctioning of personal guarantees, among other issues
What the reserves offer for now is improved import coverage of about 13 months, almost double the 2013 level of less than seven months. And, ammunition to arrest a rapid rupee slide, says Anup Roy.
'The government is encouraging consumption through fiscal spending in a bid to push up economic growth in the face of a slowdown in corporate investment and exports.'
The combined share of customs and excise duties, service tax, and value-added tax in India's gross domestic product reached an all-time high of 10.5%.
Anup Roy and Krishna Kant on the challenges the public sector banks face in revitalising themselves
Banks play 'mind games' to woo customers. Big data and 'games' are now the tools of the trade.
In the past three years, personal loans have grown at twice the rate of growth in personal disposable income, leading to a steady rise in household indebtedness. At the end of March this year, Indians owed Rs 25.2 lakh crore to banks and listed non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), up 65 per cent in the past three years.
First sequential decline in a decade as 8 of top 15 software firms report drop in manpower
The gap between Nifty's price-earnings multiple and economic growth is at a 12-year high
'The RBI risks becoming dangerously weakened, as successive governments and finance ministers have misunderstood its role'.
One thing has remained constant through the Indian economy in the last seven decades: the dominance of family-owned businesses. Krishna Kant reports.
As households age, they pile up debt, a peculiarity unique to Indians, a Financial Stability and Development Council report has found. Here are the key takeaways.
According to a legal expert, the clause of 'reasonable restriction' could still mean the government can make Aadhaar mandatory for monetary transactions and therefore, for banking.
With the introduction of new notes, India will have denominations of Rs 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 and 2000.
RBI ex-governor's book on 'those turbulent but exciting times' to be launched on Sept 5 in Chennai.
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