View: RBI and the art of managing conflicts amid Das’ easy monetary policies for 2021

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Mumbai: Shaktikanta Das is no Alan Greenspan. In 2002, the legendary former Fed chair said: “It was very difficult to definitively identify a bubble until after the fact – that is, when its bursting confirmed its existence.’’ Come 2021, this is what the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das had to say: “The … Read more

debt mutual funds: Five recent changes that made your debt mutual fund safer

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By Bekxy Kuriakose The credit crisis which engulfed debt funds over the past two years, starting with ILFS Group default, has been exacerbated by the black swan event of COVID-related lockdown in several parts of the country over past few months. As a debt mutual fund investor how should you pick and choose funds in … Read more

After micro loans, housing finance to be next key focus for Bandhan Bank: MD Chandra Shekhar Ghosh

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Ghosh, who has been heading Bandhan since its days as a microlender, termed the bank’s biggest setbacks — regulatory wrath for high promoter ownership and also the exposure to failed infra lender IL&FS – as “learnings”. Having stabilised the ship after some reverses on its flagship micro loans due to demonetisation and the humbling experience … Read more