July 11, 2022

Unhedged exposure via external commercial borrowing new threat to rupee

According to RBI data on external debt released, short-term debt on a residual maturity basis accounted for 44.1% of foreign exchange reserves at the end of March 2022

  • Faculty Name Prof. Ananth Narayan
  • Featured In Business Standard
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July 11, 2022

Rupee Settlement For International Trade: What Changes?

  • Faculty Name Prof. Ananth Narayan
  • Featured In BQ Prime
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July 8, 2022

Impossible trinity returns to test RBI

Law mandates the RBI to keep inflation at 4% which it forecasts to be 6.7% this fiscal. To get to target, it has to raise interest rates sharply which it is reluctant to as it aims for a durable economic recovery. For the currency to be stable it has to attract overseas funds with higher interest rates.

  • Faculty Name Prof. Ananth Narayan
  • Featured In Economic Times
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July 8, 2022

RBI dangles carrot, but NRI deposits might not match up

The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) decision to remove the interest cap on foreign currency deposits raised from non-residents while setting off a rate war among banks is unlikely to see the overwhelming inflows lenders saw nine years ago during the taper tantrum.

  • Faculty Name Prof. Ananth Narayan
  • Featured In Mint
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July 8, 2022

A jump in forward premiums could ease pressure on Rupee

A day after the RBI announced measures to shore up forex reserves and arrest the local unit’s free fall, the rupee gained 0.16% to close at 79.18 Thursday. It was the fourth best performing Asian currency for the day. The one-month volatility index dropped 11 basis points.

  • Faculty Name Prof. Ananth Narayan
  • Featured In The Economic Times
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July 7, 2022

State Of The Economy: RBI Liberalises Forex Rules. How Will It Impact The Rupee?

RBI liberalises forex rules to help address dollar shortages, slow rupee fall. SPJIMR’s Ananth Narayan explains the impact of the measures.

  • Faculty Name Prof. Ananth Narayan
  • Featured In BQ Prime
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July 7, 2022

Ananth Narayan expects India Inflation to peak at 8% in Aug/Sept 2022

RBI liberalises forex rules to help address dollar shortages, slow rupee fall. SPJIMR’s Ananth Narayan explains the impact of the measures.

  • Faculty Name Prof. Ananth Narayan
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July 7, 2022

RBI’s market operations helped banks in funding during Covid, says study

Noting that the COVID-19 pandemic led to a sharp loss of output in 2020-21, it said the adverse impact on the overall economic activity was somewhat offset by a countercyclical fiscal policy which in turn was mirrored in higher government borrowings on the back of the fall in revenues and higher expenditures.

  • Faculty Name Prof. Ananth Narayan
  • Featured In CNBC TV18
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July 6, 2022

Enough with the AI washing!

The hype pushes advertisers to use “AI” whenever anything software-related is used to solve a problem now.

  • Faculty Name Dr Anil Vaidya
  • Featured In Analytics India
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July 5, 2022

Redemption pressure of Short-term debt to add to RBI’s forex management challenges

About 43.1 percent or $267 billion worth of external debt of the $620.7 billion amounting to 44 percent of country’s foreign exchange reserves comes up for maturity this fiscal, according RBI’s latest data on India’s external debt as of Mrach’22.

  • Faculty Name Prof. Ananth Narayan
  • Featured In The Economic Times
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July 4, 2022

After India’s craft beer and gin revolution, homegrown Black Bow aims for India’s whiskey moment

Shivam Ginglani is making an audacious bid to stir the alcobev market. Can the whiskey underdog take on the Black Dogs of the world and find more love for whiskey?

  • Faculty Name Dr Ashita Aggarwal
  • Featured In Forbes India
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July 1, 2022

Where Is The Rupee Headed? Ananth Narayan Shares His Insights

The rupee today hit a record low of 79 vs US dollar against previous close of 78.97. The US dollar has appreciated over 6% against the US dollar so far this year.

  • Faculty Name Prof. Ananth Narayan
  • Featured In CNBC TV18
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May 24, 2022

Building Resilient Supply Chains

TO SURVIVE AND GROW, THE CV SUPPLY CHAINS HAVE TURNED RESILIENT. DEEPTI THORE LOOKS AT CONTINUED EFFORTS TO MODERNISE AND WITHSTAND DISRUPTIONS IN THE FIRST PART.

  • Faculty Name Dr Sreedevi R, Dr Debmallya Chatterjee and Dr Sajeev Abraham George
  • Featured In Commercial Vehicle Magazine (CV)
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April 30, 2022

Automakers are preparing a lockdown exit plan. Three hurdles they need to factor in

Resuming production and ramping up the capacity won’t be easy for automakers. Bothe back-end and front-end will face challenges.

  • Faculty Name Prof. R Jayaraman
  • Featured In ET Prime
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April 18, 2022

Above and beyond: developing and preparing hybrid-ready cases

The impact of the pandemic over the last two years has challenged long held assumptions that the in-person class is indispensible to the case method.

  • Faculty Name Prof. Malay Krishna
  • Featured In The Case Centre
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April 15, 2022

Is the Reserve Bank doing enough to rein in inflation?

India’s inflation, which is measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), has stayed above the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s upper tolerance limit of 6% for three months running.

  • Faculty Name Prof. Ananth Narayan
  • Featured In The Hindu
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April 13, 2022

India’s CPI Inflation Leaps To 7% In The Month Of March

Economists have increased their rate hike expectations as CPI inflation leaps to nearly 7% in March. Latha Venkatesh speaks with Sonal Varma, MD & Chief Economist-India, Nomura Financial Advisory & Securities and Ananth Narayan, Professor, SPJIMR.

  • Faculty Name Prof. Ananth Narayan
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April 8, 2022

RBI Monetary Policy Highlights: Shaktikanta Das-led MPC holds rates, cuts GDP forecast, prioritises inflation before growth

Dhaval Ajmera, Director at Ajmera Realty & Infra India, welcomes the RBI’s status quo on the repo rate. He believes it is an assertive move despite domestic inflationary pressure and an uncertain global geopolitical environment.

  • Faculty Name Prof. Ananth Narayan
  • Featured In Microsoft News
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April 8, 2022

RBI Governor hints at ending accommodative policy stance; experts expect 50 bps rate hike in 2022

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday hinted at ending the accommodative policy stance that began three years ago, citing the rising uncertainties arising from the Ukraine war and resultant increase in prices, and said the time has come for the central bank to put its priorities on inflation management over growth.

  • Faculty Name Prof. Ananth Narayan
  • Featured In CNBC TV18
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April 5, 2022

The New-age Entrepreneurs

Budding entrepreneurs of today aren’t risk-averse and have no qualms about working with constrained resources or high levels of uncertainty. The pedigree of a legacy organisation does matter though.

  • Faculty Name Dr. Varun Nagaraj
  • Featured In 40 under 40 Special edition of Fortune India Magazine
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