Next week will see the official break up for all schools in the UK for the long awaited six-week summer holiday. However, whilst many are hoping to head abroad for their first foreign summer break since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the looming summer of discontent may have other ideas. With airline strikes, flight […]
Jason Hollands, Managing Director of Bestinvest, the online investment platform and coaching service, has spoken to Business Matters about what a new Prime Minister could mean for UK fiscal policy. “The news that Boris Johnson has finally succumbed to mounting pressure to step down as Prime Minister, while aiming to hang on until the autumn, […]
In early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the Office for National Statistics’ Data Science Campus started working with private mobile phone companies to see how anonymised data could help answer some of the problems that society faced. Dr Arthur Turrell, Acting Director of the ONS Data Science Campus, explains why using this data is […]
There seems to be a prevalent belief in the business community that to advance and expand your business, it is essential to have external investment. Raising money, whether through venture capital, seed funding, or angel investment, is taken by many founders to be the default route for growing their companies, but it is certainly not […]
A year ago at Lord’s, New Zealand had declared their second innings and set England a target of 273 in 75 overs on the final day. Joe Root and Chris Silverwood’s England opted to play out for a boring draw instead. Only a few days ago at Trent Bridge, England’s fourth innings target against New […]
‘Buy now pay later’ (BNPL) consumers in India are a younger set of borrowers who avail short-term credit. BNPL players account for a low share within the new-to-credit customer base, and delinquency rates are high. The companies are exploring various business models to establish economic viability with limited revenue drivers. In fact, BNPL will serve […]
By Karthik Ganesan, With the persisting turmoil in the global commodities supply chain due to the Ukraine invasion, India has seen a sharp rise in cost of many an imported commodity. Crude oil and other petroleum products constitute more than 20% of our annual import bill and we are dependent for nearly 85% of our […]
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) has reformed the Indian insolvency law landscape greatly, its most significant contribution being making errant promoters fearful of losing control of their companies in case of defaults. Given how the sanctity of the debt contract had been eroded, Section 29A, introduced through an amendment, compelled promoters to respect the […]
By Srinath Sridharan Does society shape the concept of governance? What was unacceptable behaviour in previous human generations seems to be acceptable in the subsequent ones. Is that any sign of human behaviour to learn from for governance regulators? Conversely, do formal governance norms define societal behaviour? Can regulations attempt to play morality teachers? Does […]
While the wholesale price index (WPI) inflation accelerated to an all-time high of 15.9%, consumer price index (CPI) inflation moderated to 7%. While the cut in excise duty on petrol and diesel helped to moderate CPI fuel inflation to 9.5% in May as compared to 10.7% in April, fuel inflation in WPI increased to a […]