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Anil Ambani owes his gravy train ride to apathy, leniency
Multiple institutions have failed in their duty to pursue the litany of cases against Ambani and his companies. This has facilitated a comeback that should never have been
11 Sept 2025
India avoids crypto regulation, cites ‘legitimacy’ risk
The government plans to maintain limited oversight instead, due to the RBI’s concerns about digital assets becoming part of the mainstream financial system.
10 Sept 2025
Anil Ambani’s comeback is anything but one
The return to profitability and the deleveraging at Reliance Power and Reliance Infra are not what they’re cracked up to be. Plus, as their promoter, his past continues to haunt the two surviving group companies.
08 Sept 2025
Yes Bank’s retail woes seem to have no end
The bank’s retail business continues to rack up losses. Worse, the current leadership is in a limbo and doing nothing about it.
04 Sept 2025
The other challenge that Rajiv Anand faces at IndusInd Bank
High levels of attrition, a leadership coterie and allegations of a toxic work culture combine to give the new CEO an HR headache—one that he must tackle with little help from the RBI.
28 Aug 2025
Are minimum balance rules out of sync with modern banking?
ICICI Bank’s steep hike in minimum balance requirements and subsequent U-turn raise questions about whether these rules can and should endure.
13 Aug 2025
RBI keeps repo rate unchanged at 5.5% amid global trade uncertainties
The central bank hit pause after recent rate cuts, citing the need to assess their impact as well as factor in low inflation and external pressures.
06 Aug 2025
RBI’s rate cuts fail to arrest India’s economic decline
Despite the go-go narrative, it is clear that the country’s economic growth is in a funk. What’s more, history shows that further interest rate cuts to fuel stalled growth will be as futile as flogging a dead horse.
04 Aug 2025
IndusInd Bank turns profitable again, deposits shrink to five-quarter low
The bank reported a profit in the first quarter of 2025-26 on the back of an increase in revenues and a drop in provisions sequentially.
28 Jul 2025
HDFC Bank charged with ripping off NRI depositors. Now it is set to pay
Allegations of misselling risky AT1 bonds to retail investors come as a new headache for India’s largest private bank. The regulatory backlash could leave a $100 million hole in its books.
24 Jul 2025