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The ‘Finternet’ Will Be Here Soon — Are You Ready?

Finance in the 21st century is still too costly, and clubby. Besides, when compared with the instantaneous gratification in other aspects of our...

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Modi Is Making India’s Polls All About Himself

India’s general election will get underway this week as a big summer sale. The two main political rivals will each try to attract nearly 1 billion...

16.04.2024 20

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Too Many Questions Loom Over India's Voting Machines

Now that the quid pro quo in India’s opaque electoral funding has been exposed, electronic voting machines are the next port of call for judicial...

12.04.2024 50

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‘Billionaire Raj’ Is Pushing India Toward Autocracy

India’s soaring income inequality is now among the highest in the world. The gap between the haves and have-nots is starker than in the US, Brazil...

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If Modi Is Winning a Third Term, Why’s He So Nervous?

Nearly every pollster and brokerage analyst has already called India’s upcoming general election in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s favor. But if a...

23.03.2024 20

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India’s Regulators Are Acting Tough to Restore Credibility

The recent hyperactivity at both India’s banking regulator and the securities watchdog has caught the market by surprise. Commercial lenders have...

20.03.2024 5

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Corporate Political Donations in India Hint at Widespread Rot

By lifting the veil of secrecy from a now-banned election funding mechanism, India’s Supreme Court has shown that the rot in the country’s opaque...

15.03.2024 5

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Modi’s Election Campaign May Have Already Peaked

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi likes to win his elections well before the actual vote. Ten years ago, when he was an opposition politician,...

14.03.2024 3

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Is Hong Kong Over? The Answer Lies Beyond Stock Prices

The economist Stephen Roach’s pessimistic conclusions about Hong Kong’s future have triggered a heated debate, though most of the angry reactions...

29.02.2024 20

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India’s Angry Farmers Need a Better Deal

Drones dropped tear-gas canisters, and the police fired rubber bullets as Punjab and Haryana farmers marched toward New Delhi last week, navigating...

19.02.2024 10

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The Singapore Banker Who Tried to Be Gandalf

It’s rare for a bank boss to take a 30% cut in variable pay — after delivering a chart-topping return on equity of 18%. In doing just that, Piyush...

08.02.2024 10

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India’s Central Bank Doesn’t Get Payments

When the Indian monetary authority began giving out restricted banking licenses to a new category of payment facilitators about eight years ago, it...

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Corporate Control Is a 200-Year-Old Problem in India

Nearly 200 years ago, India made a unique contribution to the annals of corporate governance by inventing managing agencies, a system for separating...

05.02.2024 10

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India’s Fintech Pioneer Has Lost More Than Its Bank

India’s fintech pioneer can live without its own bank. But can it thrive without the regulator’s trust? That’s the question investors are asking...

01.02.2024 4

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China’s Glut, India’s Drought. Two Faces of Liquidity

Lenders in the world’s two most-populous nations are having very different problems with monetary and fiscal taps. In China, creditors are drowning...

30.01.2024 10

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India’s Lending Boom Can Be Safer, If Not Slower

Depending on whom you ask, consumer credit in India is either growing too rapidly or not trickling down fast enough. Bankers speak with awe of the...

26.01.2024 4

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Sony Puts India’s Advertisers in a Tight Spot

Sony Group Corp.’s decision to walk away from a $10 billion Indian media merger will put large advertisers such as Unilever Plc and Procter & Gamble...

23.01.2024 10

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India’s IPO Market Is Busy. It’s Also Broken

India is one of the world’s busiest markets for initial public offerings. It has had more companies debuting over the past year than China and...

22.01.2024 5

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India’s Growth Has Chinese Characteristics

“Fifteen years, 6 governments, 5 prime ministers, one direction. 6 percent average annual GDP growth.” That was the marketing blitz Bloomberg...

17.01.2024 2

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US Rates Cast a Long Shadow on Indian Outsourcing

With US inflation surprisingly picking up speed again, the cheerless outlook for outsourcing jobs in India may turn even gloomier. An uptick in...

12.01.2024 7

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Asian Consumers Could Soon Be Paying With Stablecoins

In the decade that they have been around as an asset class, crypto stablecoins, which advertise tranquility in an ocean of tumult, have hardly lived...

05.01.2024 2

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The Four Fortunes Riding on a Modi Win in 2024

There’s a strong possibility that India, still a lower-middle-income economy, will have not one but two centi-billionaires in 2024. The current...

02.01.2024 3

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Your Money May Not Survive a Quantum Heist

As your credit card is scanned one final time this holiday season, say thanks to prime numbers for keeping the checkout queues short and your money...

19.12.2023 8

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Disney, Sony Deals May Make It Harder to Reach India’s Consumers

Two large media deals in India are giving the likes of Unilever Plc and Procter & Gamble Co. a reason to worry: If entertainment goes the way of...

14.12.2023 4

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Desperate Retail Investors Drive India’s Options Craze

An uncontrolled popular urge to speculate in financial markets is giving regulators a headache everywhere. It is especially worrying in India, where...

12.12.2023 5

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The Yuan Is Finally Showing Some Muscle in International Trade

This year’s near-doubling of the yuan’s share as a global payments currency has largely gone unremarked because the figures are still rather...

08.12.2023 2

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The Murky Uses of India’s Private Credit Funds

There are plenty of high-performing private investment vehicles in India, but it’s the few that are being set up for dubious purposes that may bring...

06.12.2023 2

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More Visa-Free Travel for Indians Is Good for Goa, Too

Prashant Yadav scouts for locations for the well-heeled. As the India head of a destination-management multinational, his job used to be mostly about...

01.12.2023 5

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Singapore's SPAC Debut Is So Last Season

Back in 2018, a Taiwanese streaming and online-dating service made history on the New York Stock Exchange. For the first time, the shares of a company...

29.11.2023 5

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How to Fix a $2.2 Trillion FX Risk After 50 Years of Trying

It’s finally time to move on from a $2.2 trillion problem by burying Bankhaus Herstatt — a half-century after its collapse. On June 26, 1974,...

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The World’s Most-Loved Emerging Market Is Feeling Jittery

India is the world’s most-loved emerging market this year. Foreigners have poured in billions of dollars so far in 2023 even as they have pulled...

23.11.2023 10

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Tokenize Stocks, Bonds, Funds, But Proceed With Care

Earlier this year, Singapore jailed three Chinese nationals for putting strong glue on their palms to steal casino chips from other gamblers....

20.11.2023 6

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Singapore’s Fintech Will Struggle to Find Talent

A funding squeeze and uncertain growth prospects are making Singapore startups less than gung-ho about adding to the city’s 18,000-strong fintech...

17.11.2023 100

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To Be the Next China, India Needs Faster Trains

Chennai and Bengaluru, two important hubs of economic activity in southern India, are 177 miles apart. The fastest train journey between them takes...

14.11.2023 10

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It’s Time for a Single QR Code for All the World’s Payments

Masahiro Hara, the Denso Wave Inc. engineer who invented the two-dimensional barcode known as quick response, or QR, had never imagined that his...

07.11.2023 10

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If Only Digital Cash Worked In Hong Kong Taxis

The Hong Kong dollar is very likely to go digital. Major deposit-taking institutions, as well as payment firms like Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc. and Ant...

03.11.2023 100

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Hong Kong Should Tread Carefully Now That It’s Asia’s Crypto Capital

Answer a few simple questions to show that you’re a knowledgeable investor. Bring in at least $1,400 from a bank account in any of the 16 countries...

01.11.2023 1

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Disney’s India Sale Will Follow Murdoch’s Logic

A new class of competition is disrupting legacy media in the world’s most-populous nation, leading to a second change in the ownership of a popular...

26.10.2023 3

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India’s Sell-Side Researchers Should Say What They Mean

The sell-side research community in Mumbai has to be the world’s most polite. Rare is the analyst who will use an unkind word if a more painless and...

25.10.2023 3

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India’s War on Informal Labor Is Bad for Workers

India’s mission to bring its vast workforce into formal jobs is faltering, leaving a majority of nonfarm labor in unincorporated businesses. It...

18.10.2023 1

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Why Adani’s Grip on Banks Is Tighter Than His Hold on Markets

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21.09.2023 3

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Zombie Firms Are Rising Up Again in India

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18.09.2023 4

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An Old Indian Conglomerate Seeks the Elusive Elixir of Growth

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12.09.2023 1

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