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Andy MukherjeeBloomberg |
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...
Nearly every pollster and brokerage analyst has already called India’s upcoming general election in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s favor. But if a...
The recent hyperactivity at both India’s banking regulator and the securities watchdog has caught the market by surprise. Commercial lenders have...
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...
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,...
The economist Stephen Roach’s pessimistic conclusions about Hong Kong’s future have triggered a heated debate, though most of the angry reactions...
Drones dropped tear-gas canisters, and the police fired rubber bullets as Punjab and Haryana farmers marched toward New Delhi last week, navigating...
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...
When the Indian monetary authority began giving out restricted banking licenses to a new category of payment facilitators about eight years ago, it...
Nearly 200 years ago, India made a unique contribution to the annals of corporate governance by inventing managing agencies, a system for separating...
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...
Lenders in the world’s two most-populous nations are having very different problems with monetary and fiscal taps. In China, creditors are drowning...
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...
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...
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...
“Fifteen years, 6 governments, 5 prime ministers, one direction. 6 percent average annual GDP growth.” That was the marketing blitz Bloomberg...
With US inflation surprisingly picking up speed again, the cheerless outlook for outsourcing jobs in India may turn even gloomier. An uptick in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
An uncontrolled popular urge to speculate in financial markets is giving regulators a headache everywhere. It is especially worrying in India, where...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Earlier this year, Singapore jailed three Chinese nationals for putting strong glue on their palms to steal casino chips from other gamblers....
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...
Chennai and Bengaluru, two important hubs of economic activity in southern India, are 177 miles apart. The fastest train journey between them takes...
Masahiro Hara, the Denso Wave Inc. engineer who invented the two-dimensional barcode known as quick response, or QR, had never imagined that his...
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...
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...
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...
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...
India’s mission to bring its vast workforce into formal jobs is faltering, leaving a majority of nonfarm labor in unincorporated businesses. It...
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