Mumbai headquartered Shapoorji Pallonji Group, a real estate and construction conglomerate, finalized a $3.4 billion private credit agreement. This marks the largest private credit deal of its kind in India to date. The agreement involves a three-year, zero-coupon rupee bond with an annual yield of 19.75%, and the proceeds will...
India Becoming R&D Hub for Multinationals
Multinational from the Americas, Europe, and APAC have set up research hubs to work in the areas of R&D, Business Process Management and IT. More than 1,000 multinational companies have established engineering and research and development centers — known as global in-house centers or GICs — in India. Among these...
U.S., India, China, Lead in Artificial Intelligence
Malcolm Frank, head of strategy at IT firm Cognizant, headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, told CNNMoney that the United States, India, and China are far ahead of anyone else in artificial intelligence. In America, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Tesla are investing billions of dollars to substitute for people in sectors such...
FDI Surges in India
Overseas investors’ holdings of Indian stocks and bonds have picked up, rising more than $8 billion in 2017. "India’s current account deficit is being financed in large part by foreign direct investment inflows," said Shilan Shah, Singapore-based economist at Capital Economics. "This is a positive reflection of Prime Minister Modi’s...
India's e-Commerce Sector May Grow to $16 Billion in Five Years
With the government supporting the drive to a digital economy, India's volume of trade in the e-commerce sector will reach $16 billion in the coming five years, Federal minister for law, electronics and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad, said. The government on its part, has already started the practice of making...