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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicFinancial services

Topic: Financial services

Why financial service providers, policy makers must evolve to better serve low-income households

Low-income households work with irregular income inflows, resulting in shrinking financial planning horizon and necessitating frequent decisions in response to frequent changes.

Planned as the next Singapore in 2012, Gujarat’s Gift city still remains a work in progress

Conceptualised in 2009 & foundation stone laid in 2012, Gujarat International Finance Tec (Gift) city remains a patchwork of state-of-the-art facilities & under-construction centres.

Need to increase credit flow to businesses to meet needs of growing economy, says PM Modi

Addressing a webinar on Budget proposals relating to the financial sector Friday, Prime Minister Modi also said that public sector presence in banking and insurance is required.

IIFL bets big on India’s ailing financial services sector

India’s financial services industry is grappling with a 17-month credit crisis, in what has come to be dubbed as India’s 'mini-Lehman moment'.

PayTM helping SoftBank wade into Japan’s crowded digital payments space

Dozens of employees of the Indian startup are said to be working in Tokyo on getting the service up and running.

On Camera

What Trump-Harris result could mean for India in key areas, from geopolitics to trade & immigration

India cannot be blasé about change in any important capital in the world. Let's look at six key areas where US policy matters for India and how it may vary between Harris and Trump.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Rifles slung upside down, on ponies. Indian troops go on their 1st patrol in Depsang since 2020

Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.