Tag: Freny Patel

The finance ministry’s about-face on arbitration runs against established aspirations of making India a hub

With a South Korean committee for women arbitrators firmly in place, we seek expert views on the way forward for arbitration in the country

India’s banking regulator wants the fintech sector to form self-regulatory organisations

As global uncertainty disrupts the legal workforce, Asian law firms see attrition as young lawyers switch to in-house and other lanes

With many IT employees offered huge salary hikes and perks from competing firms amid soaring global demand for IT services

At the behest of the central bank, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) issued an advisory back in late January, asking mutual funds to stop fresh investments into overseas stocks

Does the de minimis exemption help or hinder the CCI?

India’s antitrust probe into the alleged collusion over fees charged by debt trustees of the State Bank of India, Axis Bank and IDBI Bank took a back seat following an intervention by the Bombay High Court after the banks challenged the jurisdiction of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) in April this year

Among many things, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war has put the spotlight on cryptocurrency. It is gaining global acceptance based on the sheer volume of donations flooding into war-torn Ukraine in the form of cryptocurrency, largely to finance military support. The virtual digital asset class is no longer seen as a shady “black-market” transaction owing to reliance upon it in this geopolitical and humanitarian crisis

The government is keen to support the growth of online trade, but its draft e-commerce rules could have the opposite effect