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SJVN share price rallied over 9% to hit a fresh 52-week high on Wednesday after the company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Power Finance Corporation (PFC) for financial assistance for projects. SJVN shares jumped as much as 9.31% to a 52-week high of ₹83.69 apiece on the BSE. The state-run hydroelectric power generation and transmission company SJVN said that it signed MoU with PFC for financial assistance to various diversified portfolio of projects including majorly Renewable Energy projects and thermal generation projects to be set up.

covid pandemic, high inflation, and a negative real rate of interest (thanks to the Reserve Bank of India’s loose monetary policy in response to covid). These factors made it both necessary and easier for households to borrow.

Signature Global (India) plans to raise up to ₹730 crore through an initial public offering. The IPO comprises an issue of fresh shares of ₹603 crore and a sale of shares worth ₹127 crore by existing shareholders. Of the proceeds from the sale of fresh shares, ₹264 crore will be used to reduce debt and ₹168 crore will be invested in subsidiaries to reduce their debt, the company has said. The promoter group's stake will fall to 69.2% after the IPO from 78.4%.

By Huw Jones

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled charges with Linus Financial, Inc. over its failure to register the offers and sales of its crypto lending product, known as the Linus Interest Accounts. The SEC has opted not to impose civil penalties on the Nashville-based firm, citing the company's cooperation and swift remedial measures.

Tata Group's Tata Capital Ltd is restructuring its operations and expanding its board as part of the Group's plan to take the non-bank lender public, according to the report. “The Tata group is targeting an IPO for Tata Capital in 2025. The board has been expanded, and mergers of some of the group firms under Tata Capital have been done as a part of the IPO plan," Mint reported citing sources. The group is reportedly eyeing a similar listing to that of Mukesh Ambani's Jio Financial Services Ltd last month. “Currently, it is a work in progress, with the IPO process to begin in March 2024 with the appointment of investment bankers," company sources quoted in the report said. As per the RBI guidelines, an ‘upper-layer’ NBFC must list within three years of being notified.

Financial Management Group (FWG) meeting, held recently under India's G20 presidency, in Raipur, brought together delegates to discuss critical topics concerning global economics. The meeting commenced with a session focusing on 'Supply Chain Resilience and its Macroeconomic Implications.' The delegates engaged in extensive discussions surrounding the challenges and opportunities of ensuring supply chain resilience in an interconnected global economy, stated a release.Ministry of Finance posted on X, «Session and at the fourth Financial Management Group (FWG) meeting invited delegates to discuss on 'Supply Chain Resilience and its Macroeconomic Implications' and on 'External Sector Report'.

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Reserve Bank of India in its monthly bulletin flagged about looming concerns around a likely slowdown in global growth in 2024 after after outperforming expectations in 2023 so far. As such, tighter financial conditions may continue to prevail, it said. «The global economy could slowly be approaching an inflection point beyond which things will change to local growth booms but production inefficiencies worldwide.

Nehal Mota, Co-Founder, Finnovate, says “someone who is still thinking whether he should be joining the job market or be an entrepreneur, needs to be really sure that they can maintain the lifestyle which they are living for the next 18 months at least. Can you actually live for 1,000 days or a three-year period just from the income which the business may or may not generate? If you can, then you should really think of taking this plunge as an entrepreneur and even have a small business plan. ”We are talking about self-employed individuals like freelancers, entrepreneurs, gig workers or even someone trying to enter the workforce. For people who do not have a regular income, what could be the red flags in their entire financial journey according to you?There are a few things which we see as a pattern with financials of self-employed people. First of all, they mix their personal finance a lot with the business finance. The second thing which we have seen is that at times, they do not factor in their own personal expenses or a take-home from their business. They would have planned all the business expenses.

The United States House Financial Services Committee is going forward with the legislative measures aimed at controlling the issuance of a digital dollar.

Even though the mutual fund industry in India has been competitive, the growth has remained largely steady, thanks to the strong inflows, particularly in the last three years. With newer players such as Zerodha, Groww making their entry into the $560 billion mutual fund industry, and Jio Financial Services looking to soon enter, the competition is likely to get hot. However,Seemant Shukla ofJM Financial Mutual Fund believes that India is quite an underpenetrated market globally, leaving enough opportunities for both existing as well as new players. “The anticipated growth in India can easily accommodate both existing and new players with varying strategies, be it passive or active investments,” Shukla, who is the chief business officer at the asset management company, told ETMarkets in an interview. Shukla believes that digitalisation and digital channels can contribute in a big way to expand the reach. “Considering that the US has multiple asset management companies for a population of 35 crore, it’s clear that we have a long journey ahead of us,” he said. Edited excerpts:Institutional interest in IPO issues has increased significantly in recent times. What’s driving this frenzy? After experiencing significant growth in 2017-18, the IPO market reached its peak in 2021-22, and since then, continued to maintain strong traction.

World Health Organization urged Beijing to offer more information on the origins of COVID-19 and is ready to send a second team to probe the matter, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. «We're pressing China to give full access, and we are asking countries to raise it during their bilateral meetings — to urge Beijing to co-operate,» WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the newspaper. The WHO chief's comments come as health authorities and pharmaceutical companies across the world have been racing to update vaccines to combat newer emerging coronavirus variants. Ghebreyesus has for long been pressing China to share its information about the origins of COVID-19, saying that until that happened all hypotheses remained on the table. The virus was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, with many suspecting it spread in a live animal market before fanning out around the world and killing nearly 7 million people.

The transition into one’s senior years is accompanied by a myriad of changes, not the least of which is a significant shift in financial priorities. As individuals enter retirement and look ahead to the twilight years, meticulous financial planning becomes an indispensable tool for securing a comfortable and worry-free future.

financial inclusion index (FI-Index), capturing the extent of financial inclusion across the country, rose to 60.1 in March 2023, showing growth across all parameters. The index captures information on various aspects of financial inclusion in a single value ranging between 0 and 100, where 0 represents complete financial exclusion and 100 indicates full financial inclusion. «Index for the year ending March 2023 has since been prepared.

A reported dip in engagement with financial advisors by diverse Americans in 2022 appears to be reversing.

In the document, the Commission said it is 'seeking the views of respondents on how the SFDR works in practice'.

In the evolving financial landscape, as cryptocurrency adoption surges in a more favorable market environment, we find ourselves at a critical juncture, pondering the boundary between centralized and decentralized financial ecosystems. Traditional finance (TradFi), fortified by regulatory mechanisms, is locked in a pitched battle with the rapidly growing crypto community, which is championing the principles of decentralization and resistance to censorship. This isn’t just a battle, it’s a time of transition. Both sides understand that the other is not going away any time soon.

By Uditha Jayasinghe

Ashwani Kumar, MD & CEO, UCO Bank, says “our target is to grow operating profit by 15% during this financial year and on a year-on-year basis and profit after tax is a play of provisions and going forward looking at the PCR, we are having around 94-95% PCR and our net NPA is already 1.19% and the provisioning requirements on a quarter-on-quarter basis, on year-on-year basis will come down. Our gross NPA is also coming down. It has come down to 4.48% this quarter and we will continue to see the declining trend in the remaining quarters as well and with all this in place, the ROA will improve in the coming quarters.”There is a section of the market which believes that the last few quarters of credit growth have been very strong. From here on, on the one hand, yes, there is festive season where credit generally perks up but the trend would be smoothening out. Is that a trend you see developing or do you see good growth on the credit side for next four to six quarters from current levels as well?First of all, I will give you a brief data point.