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Profit maximization through deployment of assets
It was way back in the early 1980s.
I was working for a leading Indian commercial bank in Central, Hong Kong.
During my stay, the branch moved from a couple of decades old premises to swanky new premises.
I was calculating at the back of an...
GenNex Public Banking System in USA
The thought for this post occurred thanks to the article on “Economic struggles spur calls for consideration of public banking” by Tracy Loew in ‘USA Today’ recently.
More and more states in the USA are joining the bandwagon and are...
Hedge Funds Demystified
What are Hedge Funds?
Investment pools, mainly for rich individuals and large institutions that can take risks as they play both sides of various stock, bond, or currency markets.
Loosely regulated private pools of investment capital that can...
Hybrid Markets – The markets of the future
The recent market crises and the subsequent regulatory awakening have contributed to the evolution of a new market category in addition to our Over the Counter Market and Exchange Market.
The new regulatory prescriptions by way of central clearing...
Interface Management in Investment Banking
It may be surprising to those who are not directly involved in investment banking activities that the success in this branch of banking depends directly (and only?) on the ability of the various interfaces that facilitate investment banking...
Investment banking and revenue pressures – ways to go
Setting: One of the purposes of any business is to make money. And banking is no exception to this cardinal objective of any business.
Normally the bank’s income portfolio comprises fund based income and fee based income.
Fund based income...
Investment triangle – three compromising objectives
Any investment decision will be influenced by three objectives – security, liquidity and yield. A best investment decision will be one, which has the best possible compromise between these three objectives
Individually these objectives are...
Key challenges in equity markets
Last week, one of my connections raised a question – what are the key challenges in the equity markets – in a forum we share with each other.
I was trying to provide an answer to the questions from what I have experienced so for...
Marketing tips – experience sharing
In my earlier role as a banker (in India and abroad), I have lived through some very difficult situations in convincing customers and winning them over to my bank
To facilitate me, from time to time, I have consulted senior bankers -fellow /...
Options Symbology Initiative – OSI
The OSI is a plan to overhaul the existing method of identifying exchange-listed options contracts to decrease the current limitations in today’s marketplace. This will be accomplished with the elimination of OPRA codes and fractional...
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