TV presenter and entrepreneur Archana Vijaya turned showstopper at the Blenders Pride Fashion Tour.
The churn in investment banks, though less muted than in the heydays of 2007, is gathering speed. "The pent-up desire to move is very high at the moment," says R Suresh, managing director at head hunting firm Stanton Chase.
Coming from a family that has a 140-year history of growing coffee, Siddhartha, 59, initially dabbled in stock trading and wanted to work as an investment banker in Mumbai after completing his Master's in Economics from Mangalore University.
Billionaire banker Uday Kotak founded bank as well as brokerage created and oversaw an offshore fund used by an unnamed investor to profit from a plunge in Adani shares that followed a damning Hindenburg report, the US short seller said on Tuesday. Hindenburg Research, which had in a January 2023 report alleged stock market manipulations and accounting fraud at the Adani group, said it has received a show cause notice from the Indian markets regulator Sebi over gains made from betting on the conglomerate's shares.
Bharti Airtel, India 's leading mobile operator, said it could "move pretty quickly" if the board of MTN, the South Africa-based telecoms group, puts itself up for sale on Monday.
State Bank of India partnered GE Capital in 1998 for its credit card business.
Deutsche Bank bid the lowest--which was promptly matched by five others--according to the sources. They said DB quoted 0.00000000001 per cent of the issue size as bankers' fee. That works out to 80 paise. The banks were apparently willing to waive the fee altogether, but what deterred them was that UBS was recently disqualified on technical grounds from the NTPC FPO as it had quoted nil fee.
In numerous instances, family members are unaware of an insurance policy's existence, let alone its details.
Sony Pictures Television, a wholly owned subsidiary of the US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, has inked a deal with these shareholders to acquire 32 per cent stake for $271 million (about Rs 1,512 crore).
As the lead underwriter responsible for Facebook's IPO, Morgan Stanley, would receive the largest chunk of those profits arising from stabilising Facebook's stock price, the report said citing a person familiar with the matter.
Lower returns seen drying up investor demand this financial year
'They have since only tried to improve systems. Also, with regulatory guidance from time to time, we are in a position to assess a situation and react in time.'
Mona Singh, best-known for her titular role in the television show Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin married to her investment banker boyfriend Shyam on December 27.
Starting with villages in Sangli district of Maharashtra, Dharma today sells products and services.
The BRICS bank is simply too expensive a proposition for a group of developing countries that includes many who are already overspending domestically.
Manchester United's David Gill will step down in June after a decade as chief executive of the English Premier League football club, United said on Wednesday.
Working couples are increasingly going for prenuptial agreements, though these are not recognised under the Marriage Act which supersedes the Contract Act in cases of dispute.
The primary market will see a flurry of activity in March, with at least three companies including Gopal Snacks will float their initial public offerings (IPOs) in the upcoming week to raise Rs 1,325 crore collectively. The other two companies which are set to launch their maiden public issues are -- RK Swamy and JG Chemicals. Additionally, Bengaluru-based luxury furniture brand Stanley Lifestyles and Krystal Integrated Services are expected to float their initial share-sales later this month, according to merchant bankers.
Food delivery company Zomato's Rs 9,375-crore initial public offering (IPO) will open for subscription on July 14, said investment banking sources on Wednesday. The company initially was looking to raise Rs 7,500 crore through the offering. Investment banking sources said the issue size has been increased because of the robust demand from investors.
Industry bigwigs and corporate heavyweights have been scurrying to get the best students for themselves. Naturally, salaries are headed north.
Some investment bankers expect the Indian currency to touch 60-65 by the end of the year
At issue size of Rs 10,355 cr, the offering will be Asia's biggest this year and fifth-largest domestically.
Of the six-member rate-setting monetary policy committee, five members voted for a 25 bps cut while one by 40 bps, the RBI said.
Instant approval, no due diligence, conversion to easy-to-pay EMIs, nominal processing fees are some of the reasons why credit card loans are better
To attract bidders, the government had decided to hive of around Rs 35,000 crore of the company's debt into a separate subsidiary, leaving around Rs 23,286 crore to be absorbed by the new bidder.
The government on Wednesday approved ten foreign direct investment proposals with a total inflow of Rs 2,339 crore (Rs 23.39 billion), including investment banker Morgan Stanley's plan to pump in Rs 1,894 crore (Rs 18.94 billion) in the country.
The bank was worth over Rs 80,000 crore as recently as September 2017. The lender had grown at breakneck speed, helped perhaps by Rana Kapoor's reputation as a banker, willing to aggressively write checks.
Here is our take on the market trends to watch out for in 2010.
Global private equity (PE) firms are successfully offloading large equity stakes in domestic companies in the open market, taking advantage of buoyant conditions. Strong domestic liquidity support and an upward trending market have underpinned over a dozen PE exits worth $2.5 billion, data compiled by Business Standard shows. The figures exclude PE exits during maiden share sales and shares sold by strategic investors, such as SoftBank and Ant Group in new-age companies.
Cairn Energy Plc, which has 50 production blocks across the world, holds 10% in Cairn India.
Conditions attached by RBI ensure it won't take off, contend experts.
Consensus remained elusive on a common BRICS currency as business leaders from the five-bloc nations debated the pivotal issue at a business forum on the periphery of a summit of the five-member bloc being hosted here by South Africa. In their two addresses at the Summit so far, the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have made no or scant references to the issue either. "The BRICS Business Forum discussed the international payments system in detail. "Participants also debated the question of whether a BRICS currency is possible or desirable, with strong views expressed both for and against and little consensus reached," Sim Tshabalala, chief executive of Standard Bank Group, told several hundred captains of industry from the partner countries and over 40 other nations across the globe at the Summit.
Kolkata software engineer who scored a perfect 100 percentile in CAT 2011 says that he is looking forward to he wants to be an investment banker and will join IIM-Calcutta because it is the best management institute to study finance.
Chetan Bhagat talks about this week's release Kai Po Che, that is based on his book, The Three Mistakes of My Life.
Manav Gohil talks about his latest television outing.
It's time to book a little profit and realign your portfolio according to your preferred debt-to-equity ratio.
Analysts said even though the Indian economy is expected to slow down to 7.2 per cent in fiscal 2020, it is still the best bet for investment for foreign investors.
Reflecting subdued global economic growth, India's outward foreign direct investment (FDI) fell by 33.3 per cent sequentially to $1.21 billion in August, compared to over $1.82 billion in July.
