Liquidity Standards for Banks The International banks rejoiced when the regulator announced the first ever global liquidity standards, after New Year. The regulator announced that the liquidity standards will be less onerous than expected and will also not be fully implemented until 2019, which is 4 years late than the general expectation. This was quite […]

Reliance Capital Reliance Capital or RCL/ RCap as it is known commonly is one of India’s leading and amongst most valuable financial services companies in the private sector. The company is headed by Mr. Anil Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group or the RADA Group. The Company is a part of RADA […]

Muthoot Finance Muthoot Finance is the largest gold financing company in India in terms of loan portfolio. As the business very well suggests, the company provides personal and business loans secured by gold jewellery, or Gold Loans. The company has a different marketing and lending policy where it lends primarily to individuals who possess gold […]

Fuel Price Hike The first expert committee for the de-regulation of diesel was set up by the government over 15 years ago. It is now after a decade and half that the government has taken the steps towards the deregulation of the fuel. It is quite understood that the government is bound to control the […]

Bank Credit If we talk about the credit system prevailing in Indian economy, we see that the non-food credit or the amount lent by the bank to the Individuals and companies have shown a rising spree growing 16% Y-o-Y. The credit is reported as Rs 48.54 Lakh Crore as of December 15, 2012. The loan […]

India has been trying to reduce its massive current account deficit, which has ballooned sharply due to the massive misdirected fuel and fertilizer subsidies. However the government is holding the huge gold imports responsible for this deficit and had raised the duties on gold imports to 4%. Note India had very high duties on gold […]