A digital artwork sold at Christie’s auction for an eye popping $69m, we start imagining a huge party where the owner lavishly shows off...

The US Dollar has enjoyed global dominance since it overtook British Pound post World War II as the globally accepted currency for...

Facebook is launching its cryptocurrency – the Libra. And China has announced elections. Sounds incongruous? When a corporation known as...

Given its potential and arguable Bitcoin success as global digital virtual currency, why did Blockchain not disrupt the world yet 1. ICOs...

Squaring the Blockchain circle (Nov 2018) The hype-fog surrounding the blockchain and its offspring cryptocurrencies is peaking, and this...

What is Peer-to-Peer Lending? Peer-to-peer lending (also known as person-to-person lending; abbreviated frequently as P2P lending) is...

Indian financial markets have seen a major growth in the current decade in terms of technological advancements. This has enabled growth...

Fintech will continue to grow and stay in headlines, but it will be far from the full disruption. I do not see a Google or Facebook alike...

The US subprime crisis in 2007 had shaken the foundation of US economy and eventually the global economy. Subprime loans (loans for...

The tremendous growth in financial trading volumes in the last couple of decades has been made possible only with the use of technology....

Financial Services play an important role in the countries’ and their economies’ functioning. Following the credit crisis (2008), and its...

Electronic trading in the last decade has laid the foundation for increased use of technology in the financial markets. If a trader’s...

In finance, trade is typically an exchange of a financial security (share, bond, etc.) with cash. (To understand more around how...

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

Financial exchanges are the market places where buyers and sellers of financial securities trade (buy and sell). The exchanges have...

The Rise of Investment Banking Investment Banking has offered one of the best paid jobs and it’s questionable whether the Bankers did...

Securitisation has been a key factor in the rise of financial services businesses and it poorly managed sub-prime loans distributed...

What is the role of an Investment Bank? Different Investment Banks would have a variant of the following generic business structure....

A bank is a financial institution with the purpose of lending and borrowing money. Retail banks are banks with retail customers (most...

What caused the sub-prime problem will be discussed and debated for long time. Many blame the Sub-Prime crisis upon Greedy Wall Street...