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MUMBAI: Oracle has just balanced its books with a high-calibre addition because when you're growing faster than the cloud can keep up, you need someone who knows how to handle serious capital intensity. Oracle Corporation has appointed Hilary Maxson as its new chief financial officer. She will report directly to CEO Clay Magouyrk and lead the company's global finance team, effective 6 April 2026. Maxson joins Oracle from Schneider Electric, where she served as executive vice president and group ...Read More >
AgriTech investment across the region peaked at over $750 million in 2022 before falling nearly 70 per cent by 2025 | Representative Image Southeast Asia sits on one of the world's largest untapped agricultural technology opportunities, and India's evolution in venture capital and governance offers one of the most instructive models for unlocking it, according to a recent report by Omnivore, Beanstalk AgTech, and Briter. Agriculture contributes about 15 per cent of GDP and employs up to 40 per ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): Digitalisation and AgriTech adoption in Southeast Asia could unlock a whopping $90 billion in annual GDP gains by 2033, with India leading the way, according to a study authored by Omnivore, Beanstalk AgTech, and Briter. The study argues that digitalisation and increased adoption could unlock these annual GDP gains by 2033, detailing how the region is currently navigating a sharp market correction. AgriTech investment across Southeast Asia peaked at over USD 75 ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): Digitalisation and AgriTech adoption in Southeast Asia could unlock a whopping $90 billion in annual GDP gains by 2033, with India leading the way, according to a study authored by Omnivore, Beanstalk AgTech, and Briter. The study argues that digitalisation and increased adoption could unlock these annual GDP gains by 2033, detailing how the region is currently navigating a sharp market correction. AgriTech investment across Southeast Asia peaked at over USD 75 ...Read More >
Brookfield India Real Estate Trust has announced Shashank Jain as its new CEO, bringing extensive real estate experience to lead the company's portfolio of Grade A assets across key Indian cities. Photograph: Mark Blinch/ReutersKey PointsBrookfield India Real Estate Trust appoints Shashank Jain as the new CEO and Managing Director, effective July 1.Alok Aggarwal will continue as CEO and MD until June 30, ensuring a smooth transition.Shashank Jain joins from PwC India, bringing over 20 years of ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has clarified that loans to individuals for purchase of shares and other eligible securities will be capped at ₹1 crore per borrower across the entire banking system, while borrowing for subscribing to shares through initial public offerings, follow-on offers or employee stock option plans will be limited to ₹25 lakh per individual. RBI had earlier announced the limits would be raised to ₹1 crore from ₹20 lakh. Loans against shares, IPO funding and ESOP ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], March 31 (ANI): The Board of InterGlobe Aviation Limited (IndiGo) on Tuesday appointed William Walsh as the Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Pieter Elbers, months after mass flight cancellations left tens of thousands of passengers stranded in India and drew regulatory scrutiny. During December 2025, a massive wave of cancellations by IndiGo impacted air travel across India, with hundreds of flights cancelled, resulting in passengers suffering. Also Read | BA.3.2 'Cicada' ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], March 31 (ANI): The Board of InterGlobe Aviation Limited (IndiGo) on Tuesday appointed William Walsh as the Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Pieter Elbers, months after mass flight cancellations left tens of thousands of passengers stranded in India and drew regulatory scrutiny. During December 2025, a massive wave of cancellations by IndiGo impacted air travel across India, with hundreds of flights cancelled, resulting in passengers suffering. William Walsh is currently ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) The country's largest airline IndiGo on Tuesday announced the appointment of William Walsh, a pilot and current chief of the global airlines' grouping IATA, as its next CEO. The appointment comes less than three weeks after the sudden exit of Pieter Elbers against the backdrop of massive operational disruptions at the airline in December last year. An airline industry veteran, Walsh, popularly known as Willie, was formerly CEO of British Airways and IAG (International A ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Brookfield India Real Estate Trust has appointed Shashank Jain as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Managing Director (MD) of the Manager of the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT). The current MD & CEO Alok Aggarwal will continue until June 30 and the appointment of Jain will be effective from July 1, the REIT said in a statement. Jain is joining the REIT from PwC India where he co-leads the deals practice. He has 25 years of experience working in leadership roles across real estate ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) Japanese investment bank Mizuho Securities on Wednesday said it is acquiring over 60 per cent stake in Avendus Capital from US-based investment firm KKR. Mizuho Securities, an arm of Mizuho Financial Group, aims to further strengthen its business foundation in India's rapidly developing and maturing capital markets. In a statement, Mizuho Securities said it has entered into an "agreement with the majority shareholder of Avendus Capital Private Limited to acquire over 60 ...Read More >
JioStar also announced an investment of Rs 4,000 crore for a south content slate over five years JioStar has appointed G R Arun Kumar as its chief financial officer (CFO). Kumar earlier led Welspun Group as group CFO and head of strategy, overseeing finance, planning, mergers and acquisitions, compliance, and investor relations, according to an internal company email. What will Arun Kumar's role be at JioStar? He will lead the company's overall finance and commercial functions. Before Kumar's ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 24: India's real estate sector recorded 42 transactions totalling $2.9 billion in Q3 2025, marking the highest quarterly volume to date, a report said on Friday. Grant Thornton Bharat Report Highlights Strong Market Momentum According to a report from business advisory firm Grant Thornton Bharat, transactions included nine public market deals comprising of five IPOs and four QIPs. M&A and Private Equity Investments See Sharp Uptick Further, a significant increase in marquee M& ...Read More >
While overall deal volumes remained stable compared to the previous quarter, values spiked sharply due to large-ticket strategic acquisitions. New Delhi: India's automotive sector recorded its strongest quarter in over a year, with 30 transactions valued at $4.6 billion in Q3 2025, according to the Grant Thornton Bharat Q3 2025 Automotive Dealtracker. The surge in deal value was largely driven by Tata Motors' $3.8 billion acquisition of Iveco S.P.A., marking one of the largest outbound automoti ...Read More >
New Delhi: India's consumer and retail sector witnessed robust deal momentum in Q3/2025, recording a total of 132 transactions valued at $3.4 billion, up six per cent in volumes and nine per cent in value compared to Q3/2024, including public market activity, a report showed on Thursday. According to Grant Thornton Bharat's Consumer and Retail Dealtracker, excluding public market deals, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and private equity (PE) deal activity accounted for 121 deals worth $2.3 bill ...Read More >
BENGALURU - Tata Consultancy Services' plan to invest up to $7 billion in a 1 gigawatt data centre unit in India has sparked cautious reactions, with some analysts flagging limited overlaps with its core IT services and potential pressure on returns. The move, which pushed TCS shares down as much as 1.5% on Friday, marks a strategic shift for India's largest IT firm, which has traditionally followed a capex-light, organic growth business model. The recent boom in AI technologies, which require ...Read More >
Setty said the lender needs to get the 'collections piece right' on the small value loans before rolling out other products on the UPI State Bank of India's (SBI's) chairman CS Setty on October 8 said that the lender is working on the simplification of Know Your Customer (KYC) and re-KYC and will engage with the regulators and the government. "We are working on that, the simplification of KYC processes. Even if it means that we need to engage with the regulators and the government, we are taki ...Read More >
New Delhi: In an effort to curtail litigation, provide greater certainty, and facilitate compliance for multinational firms in India, the government think tank NITI Aayog has suggested an optional presumptive tax regime for foreign companies. The suggestion was contained in the first paper of its recently released Tax Policy Working Paper Series, which was presented on Friday by B.V.R. Subrahmanyam, CEO of NITI Aayog. If adopted, the suggestion could represent a significant change in India's t ...Read More >
New Delhi: Deal making activity involving India has touched a three-year high, with disclosed deal value reaching $109.9 billion in the first nine months of 2025, a new report said on Wednesday. According to a report by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), this marks a 72 per cent increase compared to last year, making it the highest January-September total since 2022. Target India M&A activity stood at $91.2 billion, up nearly 57 per cent year-on-year (YoY). Domestic deals grew 81 per cen ...Read More >
Mumbai: In a bid to improve credit flow, the Reserve Bank on Wednesday said it would provide an enabling framework for Indian banks to finance acquisitions by Indian corporates. This has been a long-pending demand of Indian banks. Recently, the State Bank of India Chairman C S Setty also made a strong case for permitting banks to provide funding for mergers and acquisitions, as done by global lenders. "To start with, we will make a formal request from the IBA (to the RBI)... at least start with ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bankers on Wednesday welcomed the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) decision to maintain the repo rate at 5.5 per cent with a neutral stance, saying the move reflects a balanced approach in supporting growth and ensuring price stability. A neutral stance requires neither stimulation nor curbs on liquidity as it strikes a fine balance between controlling inflation without hurting growth. According to Binod Kumar, MD and CEO of Indian Bank, the RBI MPC's stable poli ...Read More >
Mumbai: The global automobile industry is starting to regain confidence after pausing product and investment decisions initially due to the upheaval caused by Trump's tariffs, said a senior executive at Tata Technologies. The Tata Group engineering firm is also pressing ahead with expansion, acquiring Germany's ESTEC for ₹75 million (₹750 crore) to strengthen its software-defined vehicle capabilities and also establish a base in Europe's auto hub. "Tariffs initially prompted many of our custom ...Read More >
New Delhi: Industry leaders welcomed the recently announced GST reforms, which reduce the number of tax slabs, stating that it will make tax compliance easier while also directly benefiting consumers through lower prices. Jharkhand Chamber of Commerce Joint Secretary Navjot Alang Rubal said that the reduction of the number of slabs from four to two under the new GST structure is a highly positive step. According to Rubal, this reform will greatly benefit the middle and lower-income groups as t ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, Sept 5 (Reuters) - India will continue to buy Russian oil as it proves economical, its finance minister said on Friday, despite the Trump administration's decision to impose heavy import tariffs on Indian goods due, in part, to its energy purchases from Moscow. As Europe and the U.S. have shunned Russian oil over Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, India has taken advantage of discounts on Russian output to become the largest buyer of Russian seaborne crude. New Delhi has said its pu ...Read More >
Penny stock under ₹5, Vantage Knowledge Academy, rallied 5% in intraday deals on Monday, August 25, to its upper price band following the official launch of its Chartered Global Investment Banker (CGIB) certification program. The company, with a market cap of just ₹142 crore, informed exchanges earlier in the day that its CGIB program was officially launched on August 23, 2025, at the MoneyExpo event held at Jio World Convention Centre, Mumbai. The CGIB certification is a comprehensive, thr ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest lender, has requested the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to allow banks to fund acquisitions, its Chairperson Challa Sreenivasulu Setty said on Monday. At present, Indian banks are not allowed to lend money for mergers and acquisitions. Because of this rule, companies usually turn to non-banking financial institutions or raise funds through bonds when they plan to buy other businesses. Speaking at an industry eve ...Read More >
So far, more than half of the 20 largest U.S. banks have reported second quarter earnings and it's been a fairly mixed bag. While most have reported solid results, investors have been hesitant to buy, given the economic uncertainty that still looms. The KBW NASDAQ Bank Index, which tracks the returns of the 24 largest U.S. banks, shows that, as the index is down about 1% since bank earnings started rolling in Tuesday morning. However, there is one bank that has outperformed the rest this week, ...Read More >
Mumbai : Advanta Seeds ('Advanta'), a global seed company and part of the UPL Group, announces the appointment of Rajan Gajaria as Vice Chairman of Advanta. Rajan has been serving as a Board member of UPL SAS and Advanta for the past two years and brings over 30 years of experience in the agriculture industry. He joins Advanta following a distinguished career at Corteva Agriscience and has spent the recent years serving on multiple boards collaborating with CEOs, venture capitalists and private ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) Although India Inc. witnessed a subdued dealmaking environment in Q2 2025 due to global uncertainty, signs of resilience are emerging, especially with foreign investors taking the lead in inbound M&A and public markets showing signs of revival, according to a Grant Thornton report released on Wednesday. As geopolitical headwinds ease, deal momentum is expected to pick up in the second half of 2025, buoyed by India's strong macroeconomic fundamentals and investor interest ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 9 (PTI) Merger & acquisition and private equity deals declined sharply by 48 per cent in value terms to USD 17 billion in April-June compared to the previous quarter due to mounting global uncertainties and a cautious investment climate, according to consultancy firm Grant Thornton Bharat. In volume terms, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and PE deals dropped by 13 per cent to 582 in the second quarter of 2025 compared to the first quarter. India's M&A and private equity landscape ...Read More >
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