Shadow banking as the symptom and not the disease
A friend pointed me to an interesting new book recently, “Inside China’s Shadow Banking: the Next Subprime Crisis”. This is written by an investment banker turned shadow banker, Joe…
Analysing a city’s finances – Example of Srirangapatna TMC, Karnataka
Continuing our focus on Municipal Finance, we look at the financial statements of Srirangapatna TMC in Karnataka in this post. We are currently working with the town of Srirangapatna…
Financial inclusion through the lens of CRISIL Inclusix
Financial inclusion is a key enabler of economic and social development. The effectiveness of the financial inclusion agenda in India can be significantly enhanced if there are objective ways…
FSLRC on Micro-prudential Regulation
The financial-legal framework envisaged by the FSLRC comprises nine important components, one of which is Micro-prudential regulation.
Pragmatic Municipal Finance Reform in India: Lessons from policy in South Africa & Brazil
As a part of our series on Municipal Finance, we present a summary of Anand Sahasranaman’s paper on Pragmatic Municipal Finance Reforms in India, published in the November 2012…
Indian Corporate Debt Markets – Risk and Hedging Related Issues (Part II)
In our previous post we discussed the development and current status of the Credit Default Swap (CDS) market in India.