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16 merchant bankers in race for managing LIC IPO
Seven international bankers, including BNP Paribas, Citigroup Global Markets India and DSP Merrill Lynch Ltd (now known as BofA Securities), will make presentations on Tuesday, as per a circular by DIPAM.
Other bankers that will be making presentations on Tuesday are — Goldman Sachs (India) Securities, HSBC Securities and Capital Markets (India), JP Morgan India, Nomura Financial Advisory and Securities (India).
Passenger trains, stadiums, railway stations, airports in Rs 6 lakh cr monetisation plan
Under the plan, private companies can invest in projects for a fixed return using the InvIT route as well as operate and develop the assets for a certain period before transferring it back to the government agency. Some assets such as warehouses and stadiums can also be given on a long-term lease for operations.
”The asset monetisation pipeline takes the NIP (National Infrastructure Pipeline) to the next phase where you are looking at public-private partnership,” Sitharaman told a press conference.
COVID-19 third wave peak likely in October: NIDM report
Emphasising the effect of the potential COVID third wave on children, the report said the Indian Academy of Paediatrics found that there is no biological evidence that the current and the new Delta Plus variant will affect children more than adults.
Pandemic threatens Asia-Pacific’s progress on global development goals, says ADB
Developing Asia’s extreme poverty rate – or the proportion of its people living on less than $1.90 a day – would have fallen to 2.6% in 2020 from 5.2% in 2017 without COVID-19, but the crisis likely pushed last year’s projected rate higher by about 2 percentage points, ADB simulations showed.
The figure could even be higher considering the inequalities in areas like health, education and work disruptions that have deepened as the COVID-19 crisis disrupted mobility and stalled economic activity, the ADB said in a flagship report on the region.
From 1,095 days to 306: Quicker disposal of commercial disputes
According to the World Bank’s ‘doing business’ report for India, it used to take 1,095 days in trial and judgment of commercial disputes in 2020.
But following a push for reforms, the number of days has come down to 424 in Delhi and 306 in Mumbai, according to the data put the in public domain by the Department of Justice in the Law Ministry.
Haiti to receive a record payout of $40M from parametric catastrophe insurer CCRIF
CCRIF SPC is a segregated portfolio company, owned, operated and registered in the Caribbean. It limits the financial impact of catastrophic hurricanes, earthquakes and excess rainfall events to Caribbean and Central American governments by quickly providing short-term liquidity when a parametric insurance policy is triggered.
It is the world’s first regional fund utilising parametric insurance, giving member governments the unique opportunity to purchase earthquake, hurricane and excess rainfall catastrophe coverage with lowest-possible pricing.
This payout,representing CCRIF’s largest single payout to date. has activated the full coverage limit under the country’s parametric insurance policy for earthquakes for the 2021/22 policy year.
As CCRIF’s insurance policies are parametric, payouts are made within 14 days of an event.
Post LIC IPO, 60 pc of insurance biz to be with listed entities: FinMin official
The insurance sector, over the two decades since the introduction of competition and regulation, has matured with 69 insurers today as against only eight in 2000. ‘A majority of these have crossed their initial breakeven phase. Once the proposed listing of LIC happens, about 60 per cent of the insurance industry business would be with listed entities. The sector as a whole has been growing at a pace significantly higher than that of the overall economy, additional secretary in the finance ministry Amit Agarwal said
India says to exceed emission cut targets, further reduction hinges on climate fund
“From 2005 levels, India’s carbon emissions fell 24% by 2016 – in the space of 11 years. Between 2016 and 2030 – in a span of 14 years – we’ve to reduce emissions by just 9-11%, but it will be definitely much more than that,” he said. In all probability, by 2025, non-fossil fuel sources would account for 40% of India’s power generation, Rameshwar Prasad Gupta, of Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change said.
China allows couples third child amid demographic crisis
The shift to the two-child rule led to a temporary bump in the numbers of births but its effects soon wore off and total births continued to fall because many women continued to decide against starting families. Japan, Germany, and some other wealthy countries face the same challenge of having fewer workers to support aging populations. However, they can draw on investments in factories, technology, and foreign assets, while China is a middle-income country with labor-intensive farming and manufacturing.
China’s planned anti-sanctions law for Hong Kong unsettles financial sector
Under the planned law, if financial institutions in Hong Kong implement U.S. sanctions, they may be exposed to legal risk in Hong Kong for doing so, financial sector executives and lawyers said.
“Many foreign multinational companies are asking about the impact of the anti-foreign sanctions law, especially international banks and financial institutions,” said Shaun Wu, a Hong Kong-based partner at law firm Paul Hastings.