'New Licences Not Possible without Changing Act' ; Reserve Bank of India...
Reserve Bank of India Governor D. Subbarao discusses the state of the banking industry and its future challenges with Chaitanya Kalbag and Anand Adhikari. Edited excerpts: On the deteriorating asset...
View ArticleBallooning Hope ; India Expects the Recent Change of Guard in China to Usher...
The once-in-a-decade leadership transition in Beijing, at the 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held from November 9 to 14, may also mark a change in the way the world and next-door...
View ArticlePeople Who Made News Last Fortnight ; People in News Last Fortnight:...
As Good as It Gets No one is surprised by the great leap upwards Leena Nair, 43, has made, rising from Executive Director, Human Resources, at Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) to a global role as Senior...
View ArticleBreaking New Ground ; the Bombay Stock Exchange and the Karachi Stock...
Muhammad Ali has not had the best of tours to New Delhi personally. The Chairman of Pakistan's Security Exchange Commission lost his mobile phone containing key data and contacts and had to battle the...
View Article'Indian Institutions Not Close Enough to Industry' ; Harvard Business School...
Back in 1992, Harvard Business School professor ROBERT S. KAPLAN evolved a performance metric, the Balanced Scorecard, for businesses. It assesses a company's performance on intangible yet vital...
View ArticleBanking Sector Poised for More Changes: KPMG ; the Banking Sector Has Changed...
The Indian banking sector has seen unprecedented growth along with remarkable improvement in its quality of assets and efficiency since economic liberalisation began in the early 1990s. From providing...
View ArticleMore Than Meets the Eye ; Thrissur's Temple May Anchor the Town in Ancient...
Every year in April or May, hundreds of thousands of people converge on Thrissur, Kerala, for its spectacular temple festival. The event, famous for its gathering of some 50 elephants, is held in the...
View ArticleIndia's Best Banks: The Other Winners ; Some Banks Have Found Ways to Grow...
Some banks have found ways to grow while preserving or even improving the quality of their assets and service. Rock Solid HDFC BANK Quality of Assets (Large Banks) Deterioration in asset quality is a...
View Article'Problem in India Is Fear of the Establishment' ; Michael Palmer, President...
Michael Palmer, President of the Toronto-based Veritas Investment, explains what makes his company's research different, in an e-mail interview with Suman Layak and G. Seetharaman. Q. What prompted you...
View ArticleIn a New Light ; Technology Has Transformed Projectors. Will These Replace...
The projector market in India has been growing steadily with 190,000 units sold in 2011 - an impressive 43 per cent year-on-year increase. The education sector is the biggest buyer. Once considered a...
View ArticleIndia Continues to Offer Vast Opportunities to Foreign Banks ; Foreign Banks...
In January this year, Swiss financial services giant Credit Suisse acted as investment banker for a deal in which Japan's NTT Communications bought a majority stake in Mumbai-based data centre service...
View ArticleA Different Door ; Private Equity Funds Are Increasingly Exiting through the...
There has been a host of private equity (PE) fund exits this year and most of them have been through open market transactions instead of the initial public offering (IPO) route that such funds have...
View ArticleHow Things Work: Smog in North India ; Smog Is an Annual Phenomenon in...
Through a Smog, Darkly Smog is an annual phenomenon in northern India during the winter months. This year, however, it has descended much earlier than usual and is also surprisingly thick, especially...
View ArticleReview: Sony Vaio Ultrabook, Bose Gym Headphones ; the Bose SIE2i Are the...
Reviews of the perfect earphones for the gym and a value for- money ultrabook - STYLE, POWER, VALUE Sony Vaio T Series (11-inch) Price: Rs 49,990 Many of the slim Sony Vaio laptops look like ultrabooks...
View ArticleVery High Rates Strike a Discordant Note: Kamath ; in an Exclusive Interview,...
K.V. Kamath is widely credited with transforming ICICI Bank into a financial powerhouse, servicing the diverse needs of its retail and corporate clientele. In an exclusive interview with Govindraj...
View ArticleGrowing Housing Shortage Could Push Prices Higher
Byline: Michael Bartlett SAN DIEGO-This seaside city has long been the bell cow for California real estate market, which may be good news. The San Diego area was the first to see a large spike in...
View ArticleHelping the Broker Industry Move Forward
Byline: Brad Finkelstein While many people in the mortgage broker industry are members of their state trade groups in name only, others make the commitment to take a leadership role, while at the same...
View ArticleCredit Rescoring and Title Insurance May Pose Obstacles
Byline: Lew Sichelman Do you know the difference between credit rescoring and credit repair? Apparently, some lenders don't. As a result, they are refusing to fund mortgages they otherwise would...
View ArticleNationwide Grows Family through Adoptions
Byline: Hung Tran The Nationwide Funds Group is taking two tacks to drive growth of assets. One move seems counterintuitive In June, Nationwide began eliminating redemption fees on all mutual funds in...
View Article2012 Regulatory Outlook: Cost of Compliance Starts to Climb
Byline: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld Regulatory reform is about to exact its price. Whether it's capital surcharges for fund companies designated as "systemically important" or dealing with new fiduciary...
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