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IndiaAI’s RegTech Challenge: A Deal Only A Desperate Start-up Would Sign
India's financial watchdog is drowning in paper. The National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA), the body responsible for overseeing India’s financial audit quality and reporting, receives thousands of filings every year and checks them by hand. Human reviewers, manual checklists, and not nearly enough of either. The obvious fix: an AI engine...
A Billion-Dollar Deadlock: Why Tata Sons Is Deferring Its Leadership Vote
The Tata group, India’s most storied conglomerate, finds itself at a defining moment. At stake is not just the extension of Natarajan Chandrasekaran’s leadership at Tata Sons, but the very structure of how the $149‑billion empire will be governed in the years ahead. With Noel Tata now chairing Tata Trusts — the holding company that controls 66% of...
Flights Go Off Grid: West Asia Chaos Costs India’s Airlines Rs 220 Cr in 48 Hours
Indian airlines have taken a combined hit of up to Rs 220 crore in just 48 hours as severe West Asia airspace disruptions force a wave of cancellations and costly reroutes to Western destinations.Across Air India, IndiGo and Akasa, disruptions over 48 hours have triggered an estimated Rs 180-220 crore hit, driven by last‑minute long‑haul scrubs,...
India’s Mis-Selling Problem Can't Be Solved By Banks Alone
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently hogged headlines in India’s financial newspapers as she admonished banks, asking them to focus on their core business and “stop mis-selling”. The warning came on the back of India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), releasing draft guidelines on its website on the mis-selling of insurance...
Agentic AI Is Transforming Subsurface Exploration: Akshay Sahni
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AI Hopes Soar, India Pushes Asset Monetisation, Trump Spins Growth Story
NVIDIA’s better-than-expected results announced Wednesday have served to assuage market concerns over an artificial intelligence (AI) bubble. This is illogical. If NVIDIA continues to receive strong orders for its chips, it only shows that people continue to put up data centres, not that these data centres and the AI they deliver will find...
Could Blockchain Push Markets Beyond T+1 and Simplify Settlements?
Those who invest in stocks would know that when you buy a share on your broker’s mobile app or web platform, it shows up on your dashboard at once. But the real transfer of shares does not happen instantly.Brokers, clearing firms, and banks do a lot of work in the background. Each party keeps its own record of the transaction. Later, those records...
India’s Container Manufacturing Plan Shows Intent But May Face Execution Risks
When Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a Rs 10,000 crore outlay in the Union Budget for container manufacturing in the country, the message was clear — India wants a seat at a table long dominated by China. The policy, which is a part of the government’s logistics and maritime infrastructure push, aims to build domestic capacity for...
