RBI’s increased scrutiny of banks servicing start-ups and tech-based companies has largely impacted the business continuity of partner fintechs, with their customers being left in a lurch
Substack Notes, launched on April 5, allow users to comment and share — call it restacking — similar to Twitter. With these features, Substack will help audiences find content and new creators, thus attracting and keeping user attention
Once synonymous with the crisis that brought on an Asia-wide financial meltdown, investors are gung-ho about Thailand these days. But bad politics and overdependence on China remains a weakness
Banks are expected to do well on the back of loan growth and healthy asset quality. A key question investors will seek answers to is how will they perform on the net interest margin front in FY24
The tug of war between the US and China over establishing supremacy in the chips industry has ramifications for several countries, including India
The IMF is projecting a significant fall in real interest rates in emerging economies in the long term with that of China to be near zero by 2050 led by demographics and productivity factors
Government failed to communicate properly why textbooks need periodic revision. History textbook projections of the “Great Mughals” is at odds both with the lived conditions of their subjects and the neglect of dynasties like the Cholas who left behind architectural marvels like Brihadeshwara temple and enjoyed influence across southeast Asia
In today’s edition of Moneycontrol Pro Panorama: Bank credit growth in slow lane, Musk and climate change, the fixed income party and more
Global sugar prices are on a tear as the tail end of India’s sugar season is seeing output slump, with the season’s output expected to fall short of estimates
For BJP dealing with its own internal problems in Rajasthan, the renewal of open hostilities between Sachin Pilot and Ashok Gehlot comes at a particularly good time. Instead of preparing for the assembly elections later this year, Congress will be spending its energies on dousing factional fires
Rather than bet on early rate cuts, markets should be encouraging the Fed to complete its inflation-reduction task
For BSE’s new chief Sundararaman Ramamurthy, the biggest challenge is to bring back high rollers to the exchange
The geoeconomic fragmentation in turn is leading to fragmentation in foreign direct investment and inward orientation. The geopolitical fragmentation is likely to affect the cross-border allocation of capital, international payment systems and asset prices
Even if Intel manages to close the gap on TSMC and Samsung in manufacturing technology, it needs to convince the world’s most important chip clients that the company can be trusted not only with its designs but also to deliver products in volume, on time and with minimal defects
Freight traffic growth slowed to 3.5 percent in the second half of FY23 from 10.1 percent in H1 FY23
Tesla’s road map for a sustainable energy future is a simplified model that does not capture the realities of developing nations such as India
The OPEC gambit is bad news for India which imports 85 per cent of its requirements. Even the discounts on Russian crude oil will not be able to overcome the higher costs of total oil imports during 2023-24
RBI’s pause in the interest rate hiking cycle does not make a material difference to home loan EMIs in the near term and is, at best, a sentiment booster
A pause in rate hikes has seen some equity bulls rejoice while the fixed income camp wears a desolate look. Both are jumping the gun
More and more automakers turning to China's CATL that has dominated the market for years raises a broader question: How did a single company manage to position itself as such a critical cog, with the world so deeply dependent on it?
Protectionism towards coal is going to be increasingly hard to sustain for India when people begin to pay with their health, wealth and futures when rising day-time temperatures make lives unbearable and a cleaner path to energy transition is at hand
AI generated art works are forcing a rethink on copyright laws anchored around the fundamental premise that copyright can be granted only for original works created by a human being. But do the input prompts to AI by humans fall within the ambit of “creative interventions” that deserve a copyright?
Considering the dramatic improvement in infrastructure over the last decade and the huge state sector investments in energy, it is indeed time for the region to strive for private investments. However, there are concerns if the smaller states will go out shopping with adequate preparations
In today’s edition of Moneycontrol Pro Panorama: Can Congress recover from its woes, SEBI's responsible message push for advisors, global food inflation moderates further, double whammy for Mphasis, and more
India should pass the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill to protect the data of its citizens and also work towards an AI policy that prioritises openness and transparency and discourages tech monopolies