October 2017
October 2017
The latest edition of ‘India Global Business’ tracks India’s quest for natural resources around the world and the various success stories. The Sector Focus this time is on the Banking & Finance industry and the Country Focus is on Australia.
Banking the unbanked is India’s big success story
Arundhati Bhattacharya is the first woman to chair the State Bank of India (SBI), India’s largest state-owned bank. Just before her retirement in early October, she took time out for ‘India Global Business’ during a visit to the UK to delve [...]
Colonial Cousins
India and Australia have great historical and cultural linkages but that is yet to translate into bilateral trade and investment. It is an anecdote that Matt Staff, a former senior executive at mining behemoth Rio Tinto’s operations at Pilbara region [...]
India is at a cusp of a revolution
Dr B.R. Shetty is the Founder and Non-Executive Chairman of the Abu Dhabi based NMC Healthcare and Chairman of UAE Exchange, which most recently hit the headlines for its acquisition of forex major Travelex. The Karnataka-born and UAE-based entrepreneur opens [...]
Illuminating India’s scientific contributions
A brief chronicle of the country’s inventions and ideas that have been pivotal in shaping the world come to life as part of the UK-India Year of Culture. Some of the most important ideas in the history of science, technology, [...]
An Indian in Melbourne
The coastal city of Melbourne is Australia’s second-largest and the capital of the state of Victoria. It has a varied demography with almost of a quarter of its population born overseas and Indians forming a large chunk of that multi-cultural [...]
Indian companies scour the world for resources
Resource-poor but demand-rich Indian companies are prospecting and mining natural resources such as coal, oil & gas and other minerals at locations as far apart as Indonesia, Africa, Australia and the US to feed their factories back home. Here’s a [...]
Adani weathers storm over Queensland mining project
Steadfast support from the public at large is likely to see Adani's $16.1-billion mining project, India’s largest outbound FDI, through the hurdles. There appears to be some sort of jinx revolving around projects carrying the twin labels of “largest FDI” [...]
Indian renewables agency strikes Bond with UK
The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) has become the latest Indian entity to launch a new Green Masala Bond on the London Stock Exchange. The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) listed new a new Green Masala Bond on International Securities Market [...]
Turnaround at Stanlow reflects Essar Oil’s global vision
S. Thangapandian, Chief Executive Officer of Essar Oil UK, takes time out for ‘India Global Business’ to explain why the company is investing heavily in its Stanlow Refinery in Britain and the story behind turning a loss-making unit into a [...]
Indian financial services companies find green pastures abroad
Indian banks and investment banks are investing in global financial centres such as London, New York, Singapore and Dubai to better serve the growing and very lucrative market for cross-border deals involving Indian companies. Here’s a quiz question: Which Indian [...]
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