My routine visits to one of the biggest nationalized banks witnessed an interesting interaction between the bank’s Chief Manager and a messenger from a Gurugram court which involved a question to the bank whether it received money from one of the 63 accounts maintained by a defaulter builder with the said bank. It reminded me […]
RBI’s latest Liquidity Risk Management guidelines for Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) RBI in its wisdom issued detailed guidelines on liquidity risk management for NBFCs on November 4, 2019 with non-deposit taking NBFCs with asset size of Rs. 100 Crore and above, systematically important Core investment companies and all deposit taking NBFCs irrespective of their asset […]
Effective governance of compensation – The Board of Directors to oversee compensation system’s design and operation, monitor the compensation system, and staff engaged in financial and risk control must be independent and compensated irrespective of the areas supervised by them. All in altruistic sense.
As an Insolvency professional since 2018 and just requesting Adjudicating authority(one of the court judges of NCLT, New Delhi, in simpleton’s language) to relieve me of the duties as Interim Resolution Professional, after completion of task assigned, I am left with the thinking to analyze who is an interim resolution professional(IRP), what role he/she plays […]
A small kid asked me whether he/she could set up a small finance bank and help his relatives living in a small village in Himachal Pradesh. To answer this question and being a retired senior executive from a nationalized bank who worked in the department dealing with financing small borrowers in late 1970s, I was […]
The concept of class action was introduced in India under the Companies Act, 2013. But this article analyses the same under the heading “collective redress” on the basis of” European Commission’s 2013 Recommendation on Collective Redress” in Europe. In a lay man’s language, the class suit is initiated by an individual or a small group […]
American business to watch for these monumental changes include corporations, S Corporations, partnerships like LLCs and sole proprietorships. I gleefully agree that as a business owner or self-employed individual one may like to review tax reform sections that may affect the bottom line of the business.
30 years is too small a time for a nation but for a tax payer in USA, the tax return for individual for the year 2018, popularly known as 1040 has been changed forever. With lot of discussions and clarity, and building block approach, as Internal Revenue Service, the income tax wing of American Government […]
Committee of Experts on regulating audit firms and net- works set up by Ministry of Corporate Affairs in response to the issues raised by the Honorable Supreme Court in the judgement of S.Sukumar Vs. Institute of Chartered Accountants of India(February 23, 2018) submitted its report on October 25, 2018. It deals with steps to be taken to strengthen the legal regime of auditors and promote audit as a profession. I am here through this article to express my views on audit profession in India with my vast decades of combined audit experience in India as well as U.S.A.
In a memorable and consequential judgement, in the matter of Nikhil Mehta & Sons (HUF)&Or’s vs M/s AMR Infrastructure Ltd (CA No. 811(PB/2018 in IB-02(pb)/2017, it has been upheld that the voting threshold in the IBC are merely directory in nature and that preference can be taken to decision taken by the largest percentage in the Committee of Creditors in case of a deadlock. For a homebuyer or commercial property buyer, both of them involved in this case, the judge made an eventful judgement which approved the appointment of Interim Resolution Professional as Resolution Professional and that agenda items 4, 6 to 9 were also deemed to have been approved by majority of Committee of Creditors
