News that Amazon will offer wealth management services in India broke on a leading daily on 8 September 2021. This certainly marks a changing landscape in the financial sector of India. The news followed Google Pay’s offer to open fixed deposits in India. These moves mark a transition that experts are keen to follow. Let’s …
After years of delay, it seems like the roadblock is finally over for electricity futures to trade in the Indian derivative market. It will allow both producers and consumers to enter into futures and options deals to hedge against price volatility and other associated risks. The decision was pending for some time now since discussion …
The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has reportedly begun to look into freak trades that have occurred in the futures and options segment (F&O) in contracts on some of the most traded stocks. According to reports, the prices of these trades were higher than the current market price by ten per cent. News reports suggest that …
On Tuesday, the Securities Exchange Board of India has proposed a one commodity one exchange policy to reduce liquidity fragmentation. As per this proposal, all the stock exchanges will have to involve in the development of a separate lot of un-fragmented contracts which are easily sellable. There has been a proposal for developing another specific …
On 30th May, SEBI put out a proposed report to regulate Participatory Notes (P-Notes) more closely. It may be recollected that when SEBI permitted Foreign Institutional Investors to invest in India, these FIIs were required to register with SEBI by going through the stringent KYC and other reporting and compliance requirements. However, many smaller investors …
A Brief Overview The ease of access to the internet and information has drastically altered the way in which we engage with the stock markets and investment tools. Now that you can make investments and trade on the stock markets online, traditional brokerage firms have had to get along with the times. This has meant …
Capital markets regulator SEBI is mulling the idea of allowing foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) to enter the exchange-traded commodity derivatives market even as its advisory committee may take up the subject for discussion in its next meeting, scheduled for November 15. The commodity derivatives advisory committee (CDAC) is a body that is mandated by SEBI to suggest …
Women are taking to the stock markets like never before. And aptly so. As the world observes another Women’s Day, it is significant that more women have taken to the stock markets, which has traditionally been a male bastion. Many brokerage firms have been reporting a substantial rise in demat accounts opened by women in …
The world witnessed a financial revolution in the last decade. The changes had a deep impact on the nature of money and the way it flowed from one person to another. The world was introduced to Bitcoin, a type of cryptocurrency, in 2009. Bitcoin and the other virtual currencies that followed Bitcoin found many takers …
Recently, India’s forex reserves touched an all-time high of $394 billion. In fact, India is already the 8th largest economy in the world in terms of forex reserves and is expected to cross the$400 billion mark by the first week of September. India’s rising forex reserves also represents the shifting oil dividends due to sustained weakness …
