President-elect Donald Trump may have campaigned hard against high inflation, but by the time of his Nov. 5 election victory financial professionals had moved on from rising prices and begun worrying about rising U.S. debt, possible recession, and risks to global trade as among the top threats to the stability of the financial sector, according … Read more
To address potential financial stability risks and protect investors, it is important to arrive at a common approach to crypto assets, the Financial Stability Report released by RBI said on Thursday. In this context, various options are being considered internationally, it said. One option is to apply the same-risk-same-regulatory-outcome principle and subject them to the … Read more
The second wave of the pandemic took a “grievous toll” on India, but the dented economic activity has started recovering from late-May, Reserve Bank governor Shaktikanta Das said on Thursday. In a first, Das flagged the rising data breaches and cyber attacks as a risk facing the economy, along with others like firming global commodity … Read more
Millions lost their jobs, walked thousands of miles to get home, starved, got sick, died. The lockdown following the Covid-19 pandemic was the worst catastrophe for India since the ‘Spanish flu’ influenza epidemic a century ago. Just how bad is documented by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its Financial Stability Report (FSR; bit.ly/3oP9DBT) … Read more