New-age stocks recover post poll results; Ixigo IPO launchA day after election results, shares of new-age companies like Zomato and Delhivery made a sharp recovery on the bourses. A look at the num...
06 Jun, 2024, 04.52 PM IST
ETMarkets PMS Talk: This 600-cr fund manager focuses on price value gaps to identify stocks for portfolio & manage risk"We are bottom-up stock selectors. We look for market inefficiencies to identify opportunities, and we believe in market efficiency for the...
15 Dec, 2023, 12.21 PM IST
Ecommerce provides big push to digital payments during Covid pandemicMost retail payment channels, including the Unified Payments Interface, clocked record volumes in July and August.
01 Oct, 2020, 07.22 AM IST
Digital payments: Pandemic does what demonetisation couldn’t doThe pandemic has done what even demonetisation couldn’t do — bring about a big shift in payments from cash to the digital. And it’s here to...
01 Oct, 2020, 06.55 AM IST
Indian consumers favour biometrics over passwords: VisaThe payments ecosystem is witnessing a rapid change in adoption of new form factors of payments and modes of authentication, Visa India and...
16 Jan, 2018, 05.34 PM IST
Visa, MasterCard lobby government to ensure they don’t lose out to homegrown apps like UPI, BHIMCard companies are highlighting avenues such as QR codes and contactless payments as part of a bouquet of options to stay relevant in a cas...
15 Apr, 2017, 06.51 AM IST
Digital payment firms hope for tax benefits in Union BudgetThey have also requested for extension of the import duty waiver on PoS terminals for card payments beyond March 31 as it expects the deman...
20 Jan, 2017, 08.30 AM IST
Call drops: Telecom tower companies blame civic bodies for stunting growthApart from spectrum — the airwaves which carry your mobile phone calls — operators need towers to put up equipment to receive and transmit ...
09 May, 2015, 05.07 AM IST
Kerala embracing drinks with low alcohol content; leading Indian winemakers enjoying brisk salesKerala is embracing drinks with low alcohol content like never before. This change, given Kerala’s long drinking habits, is epochal.
05 Apr, 2015, 12.01 PM IST
Go online for cheaper term insurance plansBuying life insurance online is fast emerging as a preferred medium for buying and selling pure protection term insurance products.
01 Nov, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
IRDA's new norms to benefit policy-holders but hurt agentsThe new rules for traditional products aim to reduce policy holder cost, increase returns, and raise payout after death.
02 Oct, 2013, 04.54 AM IST
- Changes to look for in insurance domain in 2012
The year promises to ring in many developments and record the impact of several regulatory changes in 2011. Here is a small list of what yo...
04 Jan, 2012, 07.23 AM IST
Net-savvy Indians lapping up online term insurance plansNet-savvy Indians in urban centres are lapping up online term plans. Every 18 minutes, an online term plan is bought in the country.
03 Oct, 2011, 10.58 AM IST
- There is no distinction in the treatment of offline and online plans: TR Ramachandran, Aviva
Aviva CEO and managing director TR Ramachandran tells ET why online term plans are completely safe, how insurers are able to offer low rate...
03 Oct, 2011, 03.15 AM IST
Increase in the number of senior-level exits has come as a fresh blow to life insurance companiesWhile rising competition and frequent regulatory changes weigh heavy on private life insurance companies, increase in the number of senior-...
08 Jun, 2011, 11.20 AM IST
- Fuel rate hike to have little petromin role
The petroleum ministry, it appears, may have only a dormant role at the group of ministers (GoM) set up to consider fuel price hike.
23 Nov, 2007, 01.47 AM IST
- CVD excised, importers now on par with manufacturers
The revenue department has withdrawn the 4% special countervailing duty (CVD), also known as special additional duty (SAD), on VAT-paid imp...
19 Sep, 2007, 02.37 AM IST