Ajay Tyagi

Beyond compliance, regulations must prioritise speed and preparedness in responding to threats in the AI age

India needs to align its ESG reporting norms with globally accepted standards to attract investments

India needs long-term stable foreign investment. Ad hoc short-term concessions serve a limited purpose

There is no alternative but to give the correct pricing signal to the market and consumers. Appeals and calls for conservation won't work

Our dependence on oil and gas to meet domestic energy needs continues to be quite high, with their proportion in total energy remaining virtually at the same level over the last two decades

To facilitate retail participation in G-Secs, RBI came out in November 2021 with a scheme for direct retail participation in G-Secs through its own depository system and the NDS-OM trading platform

SEs' proximity to trading enables real-time monitoring, enforcing listing standards, and maintaining orderly markets. Chapter V goes significantly further

In the financial sector, replacing existing regulations with new ones often adds costs without improving outcome

Capping Sebi's surplus under the Securities Markets Code risks eroding the regulator's financial autonomy and independence, with implications for market governance and investor confidence in India

The Indian capital market's growth has been truly impressive in recent times. Since 2019, the market cap-to-GDP ratio has increased from 81% to 135%

The RBI performs multifarious functions, some of which are, in fact, conflicting. It isn't easy to spell out the KPIs (key performance indicators) to judge its performance objectively

The practice of fixing annual divestment targets in the budgets was designed to tap an additional revenue source to contain the revenue deficit

The government needs to clearly list out all the desired parameters to be covered under the Viksit Bharat goal, assign appropriate weight to each of them, and set numerical targets wherever applicable

Not including all hard-to-abate sectors in carbon emission intensity targets will reduce market size and impact liquidity. Offset mechanism isn't a solution

Like any other organisation facing public outcry, perception management becomes the regulator's foremost priority

This column is not focused on analysing the performance of regulators, but rather on examining certain broad core issues that need to be addressed

For the public good, business channels must broaden their focus and look beyond stock market trading

Climate change poses a major vulnerability that demands a comprehensive, quantifiable medium- and long-term plan, along with close monitoring to ensure timely corrective actions

Besides depositors, investors in bank securities are important stakeholders, and their interests ought to be safeguarded

A key focus for the new govt should be to ensure wider consultation in setting inflation target