A few months back, some businessmen launched world’s first gold ATM in London. You put in your credit card and the machine will give you the real gold. The current global economic scenario has become increasingly interesting with the gold...

Foreign Exchange Market The Indian foreign exchange market has witnessed far reaching changes since early 1990’s following the phased transition from a pegged exchange rate regime to market determined exchange rate regime in 1993 and subsequent adoption of current...

Credit Market: The key objective is to efficiently allocate savings to productive sectors of the economy. Starting early saw the introduction of a liberalized regime to increase efficiency and reduce net performing assets ( NPA’s) in the banking sector. Interest...

The key objective of banking and financial market development is to aid economic growth and development, with stability and equity across sections of society, so that the gains of development are shared equally ( or at least less unequally)...

As any reader of the business press would know, IFRS is finally being made mandatory from FY12-13 onwards, with transition rules implying application of IFRS to FY11-12 period also for comparable prior period reporting. While reams have been written...

1. The contest is open to Indian nationals only. 2. The article should be original and free from any form of plagiarism. If found to have plagiarism, the article will be immediately disqualified from the contest. All sources and references...

Estonia adopted the EURO as its currency on January 1, 2011 at a period when there were growing concerns over the fate of the Euro zone in the face of growing debt by Greece. It became the first former...

Recession has once again asked a fundamental question for marketers: Is it the best time to market more and increase sales or is it the time for showing restraint and controlling the marketing budget. Nevertheless, while the answer to...

The year 2011 can be summed up in what Wael Ghonim said –“It’s a mistake of every one of them in power who doesn’t want to let go for it”. 2011 was a tumultuous year. It was difficult to...

The recent launch of Bajaj RE60, the four wheeler from Bajaj Auto, points in one direction - in India, the low cost car segment still seems lucrative.  It would have been much easier to accept that low cost cars...