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Thursday, October 23, 2025
TopicBond Market

Topic: Bond Market

Pandemic exposes hurdles of credit market as borrowers shun tighter regulations

Private bond placements have long accounted for the vast majority of debt sales in India’s credit market. A bigger public debt market should help reduce borrowing costs for issuers.

Why India’s bond markets are loving the GST fight between Modi govt and states

The bond market knows New Delhi is terrified of its wrath & is ignoring the simplest option of raising money on its own to fund states in the GST fight.

4 questions Indian economy faces after the record Q1 GDP slump

The record 23.9% decline in Q1 GDP shifts the focus back to the Modi government and RBI on what steps can be taken to spur growth.

Amazon-backed Future Retail set to tap bond market amid cash crunch

The retailer joins other stressed Indian issuers looking to build cash buffers to survive the coronavirus pandemic’s financial fallout.

Regulatory lapses & policy uncertainty are pushing infra financing into crisis: Experts

At CPR Dialogues 2020, former SEBI chief U.K Sinha said there is a lack of accountability when it came to infrastructure financing institutions.

Global bond market looks to Modi for greater access to India

India needs to cut limits on foreign ownership of sovereign bonds & allow the rupee to trade more freely on international markets.

Debt crisis has hurt India’s plans to have a bigger bond market

India’s credit crisis is impeding changes to rupee bond market, which has operated like a cosy club of a few big local banks & brokers doing deals.

India’s first overseas debt bond sale is failing

India’s first planned foray into the overseas bond market may be stillborn due to its historical aversion to borrowing in foreign currencies.

India must overhaul its foreign exchange market to boost export, balance out trade deficit

Achieving a market-driven realistic exchange rate mechanism for the dollar was one of the key policy goals of the 1990-91 economic reforms in India.

How govt of India and RBI can manage the risk of foreign currency borrowing

The risk of foreign currency borrowing can be minimised if govt and RBI stick to FRBM Act and inflation-targeting frameworks. A Public Debt Management Agency also needs to be set up.

On Camera

Pakistan can’t bend Taliban with bombs. It must stop the Yemen-isation of Durand Line

This confrontation looks subcontracted—escalation to re-establish Pakistan's indispensability to outside capitals while squeezing Afghanistan back under an old paradigm.

Boom to bust: Haunted by Ketan Parekh saga, 117-yr-old Calcutta Stock Exchange’s future lies in limbo

CSE, one of India’s oldest bourses, is edging towards a voluntary exit. It could never recover from market manipulation scam that caused a payment crisis at exchange back in 2001. 

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.