A new focus on mutual financial understanding aims to bolster resilience in marriage, highlighting the importance of transparency, preparation, and shared planning amid life changes. A recent book-club discussion sparked by Belle Burden’s “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage” has tapped…
India’s markets regulator, SEBI, is considering changes to how derivatives expiry-day prices are calculated, aiming to reduce volatility and better align cash and derivatives markets following concerns over market distortions caused by recent auction mechanisms. India’s markets regulator is working…
Janie Brook’s experience highlights how discrepancies between training data and live deployment, such as timing and data representation issues, can cause fraud models to fail in real-world scenarios despite strong offline metrics. A fraud model that looks excellent on paper…
India’s corporate bond market has expanded rapidly, but regulator SEBI emphasises the need for broader issuer participation, enhanced market infrastructure, and technological innovation such as tokenised bonds to make it more functional and reliable for investors and borrowers. India’s corporate…
A growing trend of using new credit to service existing loans during the festive season risks trapping households in a cycle of debt, according to recent data. With many households already near income limits, additional borrowing could exacerbate financial hardships,…
The National Payments Corporation of India has reassured small businesses that recent changes to UPI merchant fee regulations will not increase costs or impose additional burdens on low-turnover traders, amid concerns over GST implications. The National Payments Corporation of India…
Amid ongoing economic pressures, traditional personal finance advice emphasizing budgeting, emergency savings, debt discipline, and early retirement planning remains vital for household financial resilience. In an era of stubborn prices and tight household budgets, the most durable personal finance advice…
India’s mines ministry is increasing monthly audits of auctioned mine operations and unveiling new incentives for domestic lithium and nickel processing, as part of its efforts to accelerate mineral output and build a resilient electric vehicle supply chain. India’s mines…
Alex King highlights the potential of analogue and mixed-signal chipmakers, such as Texas Instruments, to benefit from the current semiconductor sector rotation, urging investors to look beyond traditional AI-focused stocks amid cyclical risks. Alex King argued that investors have become…
AI-driven platforms are transforming underwriting processes by automating document analysis and data extraction, enabling underwriters to focus more on risk judgement rather than administrative tasks. In lending and insurance, underwriting still spends too much time on administration and too little…
