At the heart of the Financial Capital of the world’s seventh biggest economy and home to many conglomerates, Mumbai stand a few iconic...

The term “hedge funds”, first came into use in the 1950s to describe any investment fund that used incentive fees, short selling, and...

The appetite for mobile funds and products with passports extends beyond investors in the EU, Hence, the growth of UCITS funds around the...

A Fund Vehicle is nothing but a privately pooled investment vehicle which collects funds from investors for investing it in accordance...

Introduction The president of India assented to promulgate the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment Ordinance) 2018 (No. 6 of 2018)...

Vide Amendments to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations 2009 (“ICDR...

“There was this idea that real estate invest­ments were safe because the securities had a AAA credit rating.” —Robert McDonald Risk...

At its outset, the process of Securitisation involves a few key players and a few key instruments which are discussed in this post. In...

Securitization played its part in the 2008 Crisis. The structured financial technique involved several instruments.[1] Any literature on...

Securitization gained its roots in the American economy as early as in the 1970s by pooling of home mortgages carried out by the...

PCA is intended to intervene early and take corrective measures in a timely manner, so as to restore the financial health of banks.

Two SEBI circulars dated April 10, 2018, shook up the Foreign Portfolio Investment segment. Terms of the circulars explicitly bar...

Part two of two-post series on the impact of the data protection bill on financial institutions in India.

First of two-part series to address the impact of the data protection law on financial institutions.

Sub-prime Crisis (2008) led to a severe global economic downturn with America as its epicentre. At the crux of the 2008 crisis was...

A Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Commission has listed the many defeats of human rights with the growing...

With an aim to attract long-term and stable FPI investments into debts market while providing FPIs operational flexibility to manage the...

At the end of 2017, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) brought in some changes in the composition, classification and...

Businesses are complex organizations involving several individuals who pool in their knowledge, capital and other resources and work...

Algorithmic trading is a step-by-step instruction for trading actions taken by automated systems.