Indian Commercial Banking

This report on the Indian banking industry focuses on commercial banks. Commercial banks may be government owned banks, private sector banks, or foreign banks

Issues in financial reporting

Some people, including William Isaac, a former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. [FDIC] during the mid-1980s, have even blamed the credit crisis on the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s 15-year-old rule requiring that assets be valued according to their current market value, even if the market for them has temporarily vanished.

Monopoly

Monopoly: Pure monopoly exists when there is a single supplier of a good or service in a particular market. Monopoly power exists when a firm controls 25% or more of that particular market

Project financing

The term project finance is applied slackly by academics, journalists and bankers to explain a variety of financing systems.

Long only strategy and its constraints (Bota)

It is a general thought that investors feel more comfortable in employing long only strategies. However, many academic studies have shown that information efficiency of long only portfolio can be significantly improved by practicing short selling.