Author: kunal

Dark Pools

Financial exchanges are the market places where buyers and sellers of financial securities trade (buy and sell). The exchanges have become automated and electronic over time leading to rise in…

Fintech

Kunal Nandwani

November 18, 2012

2 min

Electronic trading

Trading process has evolved over time. An individual or an institution needs to trade through a broker who is a member of the exchange. Couple of decades ago, here is…

Fintech

Kunal Nandwani

November 18, 2012

3 min

Algo Trading: The 1-O-1

Electronic trading in the last decade has laid the foundation for increased use of technology in the financial markets. If a trader's mind can be coded into an algorithm (step…

Fintech

Kunal Nandwani

November 18, 2012

3 min

November 13, 2012June 9, 2016

Basics of Financial Trading

In finance, trade is typically an exchange of a financial security (share, bond, etc.) with cash. (To understand more around how financial securities are created by discounting cash-flows, please read…

Fintech

Kunal Nandwani

November 18, 2012

3 min

Pivoting in a Start-up

The business plan in a start-up evolves very frequently. Mostly the market, customers, product requirements would move in an ever changing world during execution of your business plan. Good entrepreneurs…

Startups

Kunal Nandwani

November 13, 2012

2 min

November 13, 2012March 12, 2018

Failure in a Start-up

Every start-up has some objectives. Success, though subjective, is one of the core reasons why many start-ups come into existence. While it is useful to have well defined targets as…

Startups

Kunal Nandwani

November 13, 2012

3 min

November 13, 2012June 9, 2016

Inspiring the Start-up team

A start-up's success is mostly directly linked to the combined performance of its team. Hiring a good team is important, but how they collaborate and deliver is also crucial. Managing the…

Startups

Kunal Nandwani

November 13, 2012

2 min

November 3, 2012June 9, 2016

Questions you can ask a Start-up before Joining

If you have worked in larger organizations for some time, you would realize how much political it gets and how your growth gets limited by the bureaucracy of the organization.…

Startups

Kunal Nandwani

November 3, 2012

2 min

November 3, 2012June 9, 2016

Administrative Challenges of Running a Start-up in India

Challenges of running a start-up in India: India ranks around 130th in the world bank rankings of world bank's ease of doing business Index. It makes India one of the hardest…

Startups

Kunal Nandwani

November 3, 2012

3 min

Financial Institutions

Understanding the Investment LandscapeOther than Investment Banks, there are other financial institutions in the market that play a big role. Below is a possible representation of Investors, Investment Intermediaries and…

Fintech

Kunal Nandwani

October 27, 2012

6 min

October 27, 2012March 12, 2018

Securitisation: The 1-O-1

Securitisation has been a key factor in the rise of financial services businesses and it poorly managed sub-prime loans distributed across the world through securitisation led to the subprime crisis…

Fintech

Kunal Nandwani

October 27, 2012

5 min

The Rise of Investment Banking in the Last 3 Decades

The Rise of Investment BankingInvestment Banking has offered one of the best paid jobs and it’s questionable whether the Bankers did enough for the kind of money they got. Since…

Fintech

Kunal Nandwani

October 27, 2012

7 min

Board of Directors/Advisors for a Start-up

As a start-up, you may chose to have a Board of Advisors and Directors. It's not a necessity but definitely adds credibility and experience in your company. Lets first look…

Startups

Kunal Nandwani

October 27, 2012

2 min

October 23, 2012March 12, 2018

Creating a Team of Software Engineers in India

Hiring software engineers in Indian start-ups: India has millions of software engineers from good educational background and with reasonable work experience. This headline is well sold across the world. However the…

Startups

Kunal Nandwani

October 27, 2012

2 min

Root of Sub-Prime/Credit Crisis of 2008

What caused the sub-prime problem will be discussed and debated for long time. Many blame the Sub-Prime crisis upon Greedy Wall Street Investment bankers, or on “Risky” Hedge Funds, or…

Fintech

Kunal Nandwani

October 23, 2012

7 min

October 23, 2012March 12, 2018

How does an Investment Bank differ from a Retail Bank?

A bank is a financial institution with the purpose of lending and borrowing money. Retail banks are banks with retail customers (most individuals and smaller institutions / businesses) where the…

Fintech

Kunal Nandwani

October 23, 2012

3 min

What is Investment Banking?

What is the role of an Investment Bank?Different Investment Banks would have a variant of the following generic business structure. Investment Banks in simplest terms help match investors and institutions…

Fintech

Kunal Nandwani

October 23, 2012

4 min

Role of the CEO in a Start-up

If you are one of the main founders of a company, you may become the CEO. It is always a good position to have, but a very challenging one too.…

Startups

Kunal Nandwani

October 23, 2012

5 min

Co-founders in a Start-up

If you are the first person to think of an idea and truly feel passionate about executing it, you may chose to bring in other co-founders along with you. A…

Startups

Kunal Nandwani

October 23, 2012

3 min

Building a Start-up Team

In most scenarios, the success of a Start-up depends upon the quality of its team. From co-founders to management and its employees, everyone should be efficient. There should be a…

Startups

Kunal Nandwani

October 23, 2012

3 min

Importance of an Entrepreneur’s Selling Skills in a Start-up

Selling is a constant job that an Entrepreneur has to do. It is a very key skill within a start-up. you will need to sell your company to investors, your…

Startups

Kunal Nandwani

October 23, 2012

2 min

Keys to Success in a Start-up

Why is it that very few start-ups succeed, whereas 99% or more fail? Firstly, the success and failure are subjective terms, and the partial success and partial failure is also…

Startups

Kunal Nandwani

October 23, 2012

2 min

How to start a Start-up

Presumably you have an idea with which you are considering to start a company. It's going to be an incredibly challenging and exciting journey. Here are some points you may…

Startups

Kunal Nandwani

October 23, 2012

3 min