The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has moved swiftly to plug abuse of section 391 of the Companies…
Experience tells us that once the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) submits its report, the investigation into irregularities fizzles out. And…
Companies planning to tap the capital market have Maruti Udyog Ltd (MUL) to thank for a lot of action on…
Instead of facilitating the launch of interest rate derivatives, the Reserve Bank of India?s (RBI?s) draft guidelines released last Thursday…
Some time ago, noted economist Paul Krugman wrote this in The New York Times: Twenty-five years ago, American corporations bore…
At the Confederation of India Industry?s (CII?s) annual session for the western region, Rahul Bajaj spoke on the agenda for…
Last week, America?s largest pension fund, CalPERS (California Public Employees Retirement System), announced that it would target six companies for…
A recent success for the Union disinvestment ministry in its plans to sell two giant oil company shares has been…
If the world, as we knew it changed after September 11, 2001 ? will it remain the same after March…
Last week?s Supreme Court judgement has gladdened the hearts of the financial services industry. If the Securitisation Bill has armed…
When the finance minister (FM) said in his budget speech that ?the Department of Company Affairs (DCA) is now being…
In reorganising the finance ministry and reverting to the ?simpler and more direct name as Ministry of Finance (MoF)?, Jaswant…
Since Jaswant Singh likes to do things differently, he is probably pleased that that the capital market was completely confused…
Vinod Baid, who is currently in jail along with Keshav Bangur on charges of cheating Bank of Rajasthan, is an…
February 1, 2003 marked the birth of UTI Mutual Fund with 47 schemes and a modest corpus of Rs 15,000…
Like all good regulators, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has tried hard to get market intermediaries to…
It happened sometime in October 1999. Leading American newspapers reported that the Los Angeles Times (LA Times), one of America?s…
Eight years ago, when the IPO market was at its manic worst, corporate India first began to demand curbs on…
