Tata Capital Housing Finance Ltd. has come out with public issue of non-convertible debentures (NCD) offering up to 8.70% interest rate. The issue opens on January 7 and closes on January 17, 2020. Tata Capital Housing Finance NCD – Significant Points: Offer Period: January 7 to 17, 2020 Annual Interest Rates for Retail Investors: 8.01% […]
Archives for January 2020
At SoftBank’s jewel, Oyo, a ‘toxic’ culture and troubling incidents
By Vindu Goel and Karan Deep Singh Oyo, a startup that offers budget hotel rooms, has grown into one of India’s most valuable private companies and aims to be the world’s largest hotel chain by 2023. But at least part of Oyo’s rise in India was built on practices that raise questions about the health […]
9.10% Shriram Transport Finance NCD – Jan’20 – Should you Invest?
Shriram Transport Finance Company Ltd, one of the largest asset financing non-banking finance companies for commercial vehicles has come out with public issue of non-convertible debentures (NCD) offering up to 9.10% interest rate. The issue opens on January 6 and closes on January 22, 2020. Shriram Transport Finance NCD – Significant Points: Offer Period: January […]
Amazon finds a way around a West African muddle
In a building on West 147th Street in Upper Manhattan, the mail carriers know apartment 1A. Boxes arrive at all hours, ordered from websites around the world. Throw pillows, diapers, car parts, cellphones, high heels and AirPods pile up in the foyer, but none of the items were bought by the person to whom they […]
Internet suspension takes a toll on online transactions
(Representative Image) Ajay Pandey, a Lucknow-based photographer who runs a micro ATM within the premises of his small studio in the city, is a distraught man. Almost six days of internet suspension in the state capital from December 19 has left a huge dent in his monthly commissions from falling financial transactions. “It so happened […]
Alexa, tell the kids to ‘eat right’: FSSAI
In a first, the national food regulator has tied up with e-commerce giant Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa and is setting up ‘eat right’ labs in schools, looking to include children in the dialogue on healthy and safe eating. “A key constituent of the ‘eat right’ campaign is towards children and to address this audience, there […]
Trai seeks views on traffic management under net neutrality
The telecom regulator on Thursday sought public views on the contours of reasonable Internettraffic management practices that don’t infringe on rules around the free Web or hurt the consumer. It has also sought suggestions for the governance structure of a proposed multi-stakeholder body that would advise the telecom department on issues related to monitoring and […]
The Decade in Sports
I thought this was really well done. So many great moments. Watch it! I can’t recommend this incredible @SportsCenter recap of sports in the 2010’s enough. pic.twitter.com/iVriE565qv — Field Yates (@FieldYates) January 1, 2020
Financial surprises retirees (and those about to retire) must avoid
Welcome to Retirement Scan, our daily roundup of retirement news your clients may be talking about. Financial surprises retirees (and those about to retire) must avoidRetirees must be prepared to handle a wide array of potential financial surprises that could catch even the most prepared seniors in retirement off their guard, according to this Kiplinger […]
Swiggy seeks higher commissions from restaurants in certain regions
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Swiggy is progressively raising its commissions from restaurants in regions where its service is nearing maturity, while aggressively pushing partners to advertise on its platform, as the company shifts focus to monetising its core food ordering business, restaurateurs and others with knowledge of the matter said. The Bengaluru-based company has also increased […]