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Future Capital, the ailing retail financing venture of Kishore Biyani, is making another go at leveraging its large customer base to sell retail finance products and services Three years after he launched Future Capital Holdings (FCH), Kishore Biyani (founder of Big Baazar chain of retail...

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Reliance Power’s merger with RNRL will mean little to either company. It also underlines how wrong the market can be on a stock’s value On 4th July, the boards of Reliance Natural Resources (RNRL) and Reliance Power approved a merger between the two companies. Consulting firm KPMG valued RNRL...

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Electricity customers in Mumbai are dumping R-Infra for Tata Power While Reliance Power and RNRL are merging, around 1.5% of consumers of Reliance Infrastructure (R-Infra)—one of the providers of electricity to Mumbai—have deserted it, since they have a better choice in Tata Power Company...

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Amritha Pillay 27 July 2010
Purchasing from power exchanges has become more popular with States like Punjab and Uttar Pradesh purchasing huge volumes through this mode Over the past one year, more and more States have been coming on the exchange to purchase power. According to Central Electricity Regulatory Commission...

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Insurers will start measures such as differential pricing of insurance products on the basis of hospital categories, sooner than later Public sector insurers are toying with the idea of launching a separate cashless 'Platinum' policy for high-end hospitals in order to retain affluent customers...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 July 2010
The central bank's move to hike repo and reverse repo rates by 25 bps and 50 bps respectively and reducing the width of LAF corridor to 125 bps, will put pressure on banks to increase deposit rates as well as hike auto, home and commercial loans The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday raised...

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Pallabika Ganguly 26 July 2010
The Ressex sales index shows no movement in the fourth quarter compared to the third quarter in the last fiscal. Especially, Hyderabad continues to underperform in terms of sales. The real-estate industry in Hyderabad is replicating the same scenario of lacklustre sales as of the Mumbai market...

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Amritha Pillay 26 July 2010
Power trading on the two power exchanges in India has been stagnant for the past six months. Volumes are expected to increase, only if more states agree to participate in the open access system. While, the prices of merchant power traded have been volatile at India's two power exchanges, growth...

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There are just three, maybe four, companies that dominate the payment processing industry worldwide. All located geographically within one part of the US, all doing exactly the same business of operating as middlemen in a foolproof business Look again in your wallet, purse, pocket-book. Try to...

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Over 99% of plastic, Internet and electronic money transactions in India by Indians — by value and number —are purely domestic. Then why is this crucial business handled only by foreign companies? Just for a moment, sit back and imagine an extreme scenario - it is the year 2010, in an...

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We have seen how over 99% of plastic, Internet and electronic money transactions in India by Indians are purely domestic. When will we finally get into this industry? Sure, State Bank of India has its own credit card. As do a variety of other banks, shops, airlines, oil companies — even the...

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S Sridhar, CMD, Central Bank of India and chairman of the National Housing Bank, talks to Moneylife editors Sucheta Dalal & Debashis Basu on the vision that he has for NHB, and the need to free up housing finance for the underprivileged. This is the second part of a three-part series Sucheta...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 July 2010
Oil minister Murli Deora flew into the Vietnamese capital today with heads of blue chip Indian oil firms to lay a claim with Hanoi on BP's stake in two offshore gas fields — a pipeline and power project. With BP Plc looking at selling interest in some fields to fund its the Gulf of Mexico...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 July 2010
The State also plans to move against PepsiCo for alleged environmental violations—including polluting of groundwater and over-consumption of water—in one of its factories in Kerala India finally seems to be becoming more aware of environmental issues being caused by major multinational...

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As the company’s flagship businesses show no signs of turning around, shareholders are nursing losses for over three years, since the shares got listed It's three years now and the shareholders of ibn18 Broadcast Ltd are nursing a loss on their investments having invested in a glamorous stock...

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Ravi Samalad 08 June 2010
The company is looking at acquiring a copper mine in Australia and has plans to revive the defunct company Mt Gordon Copper Operations Asia's largest aluminium producer, Hindalco, is eyeing a copper mine in Australia. "Our objective is to get 40% of our need for copper concentrates from our...

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A look at the commercial vehicles segment, what makes it click and the financial challenges that it faces The commercial vehicle market in India has traditionally been divided into approximately three wide segments, for purposes of technical demand-supply equations, as well as financial...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 June 2010
As the online trading platforms on NSE and BSE are unable to generate huge volumes, SEBI has called for a high-level meeting with bank-sponsored MFs and bank officials Don't be surprised if the next time you walk into a bank and you are asked to open a demat account if you wish to invest in a...

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Pallabika Ganguly 24 May 2010
The group is now approaching local real-estate agents to sell its properties at Lodha Aqua, its high-priced project in suburban Mumbai The Lodha group, which was selling its ‘Lodha Aqua’ (near Dahisar, suburban Mumbai) property exclusively through invitation, has now climbed down and is...

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Ashpreet Sethi 19 May 2010
Hollywood is increasingly knocking at the doors of Indian animation studios, but the industry is suffering from high tax rates, dearth of talent and lack of international focus Indian animation studios are doing a lot of work for Hollywood productions. But why is the Indian animation industry...

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