The current spat between SEBI and IRDA not only exemplifies our shoddy policy-making, but also exposes how spineless our government can be. Especially when there are powerful lobbies on both sides. Surely, when we have two important government regulated regulators behaving... Read More.
ValueNotes recently completed a study (in association with EDGE Forum) focusing on trends in adoption of exam technology by Indian exam authorities. As part of this initiative by MeritTrac, ValueNotes interviewed 75 key decision makers, including vice chancellors, controllers of... Read More.
McKinsey has estimated that half the global population is unbanked. This poses a tremendous opportunity. Not a big surprise – this is fairly well known to many people. The last para of their report is interesting: “This is just a start. Updating... Read More.
The controversy surrounding the entrance exams to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) refuses to die down. The latest has students expressing doubts about the results. Prometric has gone on record with a press release saying the results are correct... Read More.
One would expect customer satisfaction levels with outsourcing providers to be proportional to the years spent in outsourcing. However, our findings from a recent survey of publishing industry segments – STM/Academic and Educational publishing threw some of these assumptions off... Read More.
Another budget come and gone. Now we can all get back to business! If ever there was a financial or economic equivalent of an IPL final or a Femina Miss India, it would probably be the Indian budget. First, for weeks, the... Read More.
Practitioners of competitive intelligence (CI) in most developed markets are accustomed to applying analytical and statistical tools to in-depth information which are available in standard database formats and collected from reliable sources. However, India can overwhelm even the most astute... Read More.
Last month, during earning's season, the financial media and analyst community were up in arms over Tech Mahindra's alleged “aggressive accounting methods”. The issue overshadowed all others during the analyst's call, so much so, that Tech Mahindra's vice-chairman Vineet Nayyar... Read More.
Shifts in risk appetite (need for preservation of principal) and return expectations - both at the retail and institutional level have created the need for product manufacturing and research in alternative investment areas. Recent events shaping these shifts include the... Read More.
Revenues from the Malaysian IT/ITeS outsourcing industry are expected to grow at a CAGR of 15% to reach $1.9 billion by 2013, according to a joint publication by Outsourcing Malaysia and ValueNotes . Currently, IT outsourcing services in Malaysia have... Read More.
