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    The UAE can help broaden Indian FinTech horizon

    2018-05-30T13:29:20+00:00August 17th, 2017|2017/2018, August 2017, December 2017, India & The World, Middle East, Year|

    An Indian banker set to expand his start-up base to the UAE elaborates on the reasons behind this move. Rubique is a FinTech company based in Mumbai. We offer a lending marketplace platform which provides individuals and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country with frictionless access to a wide range financial services products including loans, credit cards and insurance products. At Rubique, we aim to solve a number of problems in the marketplace for financial products in India, [...]

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      Nigeria, the next frontier

      2018-10-30T12:28:28+00:00August 17th, 2017|2017/2018, August 2017, Other Highlights, Year|

      Indian companies have marked out a significant presence in the large and prosperous Nigerian market. This presence will grow further as India’s public sector oil majors are expected to invest up to $15 billion in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector. A vast majority of Indians are not aware that Nigeria is an economic powerhouse whose citizens, on average, earn $2,123 per year, 20 per cent more than India’s per capita income of $1,850. But Indian businesses have known about that [...]

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        Outbound tourists are the biggest Indian job creators abroad

        2018-08-01T13:16:15+00:00August 17th, 2017|2017/2018, August 2017, Sector Focus/Hospitality, Year|

        Indians spend an estimated $20 billion on their travels around the world, boosting local economies and creating jobs. A WTO study says this figure will rise to $60 billion by 2020, or about the same as the total FDI inflow into India last year. Let us start with two simple quiz questions: Which Indian group has spent the largest sum of money in the US since the turn of the millennium? And ditto for Europe? Okay, here’s are a few [...]

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          India takes a global lead on counter-terrorism

          2018-08-01T13:16:21+00:00August 16th, 2017|2017/2018, August 2017, UK/EU, Year|

          Indian Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi recently concluded a visit to the UK for the India-UK Home Affairs Dialogue to collaborate on issues such as counter-terrorism. The India-UK Home Affairs Dialogue was set up during British Prime Minister Theresa May's visit to India last November. The first meeting took place in New Delhi in May and the latest meeting was co-chaired in London in July by Mehrishi with UK Permanent Secretary Philip Rutnam. India used the meetings to exchange ideas in the field on [...]

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            Driving innovation in Formula 1

            2018-05-30T11:12:42+00:00August 16th, 2017|2017/2018, August 2017, Cover Feature/Auto, Year|

            Tata Communications is at the heart of Formula 1 with a high-tech collaboration, writes a company insider. F1 is the world’s most technologically advanced sport, and one where every millisecond matters. Whether it’s transmitting data from one of the hundreds of sensors on an F1 car back to the pits, or delivering the action in real-time via an online feed to millions of fans around the world, in this high-pressure, high-tech environment, superfast connectivity is critical. Tata Communications is at [...]

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              Project Exports: A catalyst for technological advances

              2018-05-18T13:03:26+00:00August 16th, 2017|2017/2018, August 2017, Guest Columns, Year|

              An industry expert explains the significance of Project exports to India’s growth agenda. Project is an engineering venture or mission: a scheme of development work to be executed by employing the best technologies, continuous innovation and resources – human, financial and physical to create a capital asset. As technology advances, projects tend to move up in sector size as well as technological sophistication in the value-chain. Project Exports, in essence, connotes setting up of projects overseas as construction and/or engineering [...]

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                Finance education can be enriched by Jain wisdom

                2020-03-12T08:27:15+00:00August 16th, 2017|2017/2018, August 2017, Other Highlights, Year|

                An academic presents his take on the culture and ethics deficit in financial education in a new book. There is huge demand for finance education globally – from the accounting, banking and finance professions to business schools, students continue to flock. However, the quality and supply of education is generally poor. One of the worst aspects of this is the lack of culture and ethics in the content of the finance syllabus – it is primarily technical, and ignores the [...]

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                  Energy, opportunity, leadership: Why it’s India’s time to shine

                  2018-05-30T12:48:29+00:00August 16th, 2017|2017/2018, August 2017, Guest Columns, Year|

                  A UN climate expert believes India is on the cusp of becoming a global leader in the field of sustainability. There are three things that, for me at least, best characterise modern India. And it is because of these qualities that I’m so convinced that the country is on the cusp of becoming a global leader in climate action and sustainability. Firstly, from independence to today, India has always steered a unique course –confident in its own path. It’s also [...]

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                    An organisation with Indian roots can perform at a global stage

                    2018-08-01T12:14:50+00:00August 16th, 2017|2017/2018, August 2017, December 2017, INDIA-UK, UK/EU, Year|

                    Abhishek Lodha is the Managing Director of the Lodha Group, a Mumbai-headquartered developer which made its global foray with high-profile projects in the UK. ‘India Global Business’ caught up with him to get an update on this international vision, plans for the group’s luxury London developments and the Brexit effect on the property market. What was the motivation behind the Lodha Group’s expansion to the UK? We started in London in December 2013, early 2014 and the idea was to [...]

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                      GST will not impact smartphone boom in India

                      2018-09-27T11:59:24+00:00August 16th, 2017|2017/2018, August 2017, UK/EU, Year|

                      India’s historic tax reform is unlikely to impact the scale of smartphone demand in India, a latest German analysis reveals. The new Goods and Services Tax (GST) will have no impact on the smartphone demand in India, according to latest telecom research by a German research firm. GfK found that smartphone demand in India remained resilient in 2017, having levelled out slightly to 14 per cent year-on-year. “GfK expects the recently announced Goods and Services Tax (GST) will have no [...]

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