Fintech

How NFTs Hype pushes forward crypto and blockchain communities’ “agenda”

Mar 19, 20214 min read

How NFTs Hype pushes forward crypto and blockchain communities’ “agenda”

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...

Future of The Greenbacks: Are the Dollar Days Over?

Kunal Nandwani

Apr 16, 20205 min read

Blockchain

Future of The Greenbacks: Are the Dollar Days Over?

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

Kunal Nandwani

Jun 19, 20197 min read

Blockchain

ShareLibra Demystified

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

Why has Blockchain not disrupted the world yet

Kunal Nandwani

Apr 21, 20195 min read

Blockchain

Why has Blockchain not disrupted the world yet

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

Book release and review – Squaring the Blockchain circle

Kunal Nandwani

Nov 6, 20188 min read

Fintech

Book release and review – Squaring the Blockchain circle

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

Why P2P lending opportunity may not scale for a long time

Kunal Nandwani

Oct 17, 20164 min read

Fintech

Why P2P lending opportunity may not scale for a long time

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

Role of Technology in the Growth of Indian Financial Markets

Kunal Nandwani

May 20, 20155 min read

Fintech

Role of Technology in the Growth of Indian Financial Markets

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

Kunal Nandwani

May 20, 20152 min read

Fintech

Future of Fintech: Beyond 2015

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...

NSEL crisis – Mini Version of US subprime crisis in Indian capital markets

Kunal Nandwani

Aug 18, 20134 min read

Fintech

NSEL crisis – Mini Version of US subprime crisis in Indian capital markets

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

Social Benefits of HFT and Algo Trading: Regulators should Embrace them

Kunal Nandwani

Jun 18, 20135 min read

Fintech

Social Benefits of HFT and Algo Trading: Regulators should Embrace them

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

Open Source Technology for Financial Services

Kunal Nandwani

Nov 26, 20124 min read

Fintech

Open Source Technology for Financial Services

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

Kunal Nandwani

Nov 18, 20123 min read

Fintech

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...

Kunal Nandwani

Nov 18, 20122 min read

Fintech

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...

Kunal Nandwani

Nov 18, 20122 min read

Fintech

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....

Kunal Nandwani

Nov 18, 20122 min read

Fintech

Dark Pools

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

Kunal Nandwani

Oct 27, 20120 min read

Fintech

Financial Institutions

The Rise of Investment Banking in the Last 3 Decades

Kunal Nandwani

Oct 27, 20127 min read

Fintech

The Rise of Investment Banking in the Last 3 Decades

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

Kunal Nandwani

Oct 27, 20125 min read

Fintech

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...

What is the role of an Investment Bank?Different Investment Banks would have a variant of the follo

Kunal Nandwani

Oct 23, 201223 min read

Fintech

What is the role of an Investment Bank?Different Investment Banks would have a variant of the follo

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

How does an Investment Bank differ from a Retail Bank?

Kunal Nandwani

Oct 23, 20122 min read

Fintech

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...

Kunal Nandwani

Oct 23, 20127 min read

Fintech

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...

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