By Amit BaraskarTreasury Head, Thomas Cook India Currency weakness is often dismissed as cyclical noise. But when depreciation becomes persistent, broad-based and regionally uncompetitive, it stops being a market fluctuation and starts resembling a policy signal. The recent slide of the Indian rupee belongs firmly in the latter category. While several foreign banks continue to…
By Anand Iyer Group Chief Technology Officer, ICRA By 2026, the CTO’s mandate will be judged less by the speed of delivery and more by the quality of endurance: how well the enterprise withstands shocks, preserves trust and proves control over increasingly autonomous digital systems. The backdrop is a risk environment where cyber incidents, regulatory…
The most consequential risk failures rarely stem from ignorance. They arise when leaders believe they are aligned, until a crisis exposes that they were never speaking the same language to begin with. In modern enterprises, risk no longer sits neatly within compliance manuals or technology roadmaps. It lives at the intersection of strategy, reputation, resilience…
By Amit Baraskar Group Treasury Head, Thomas Cook India Periods of global stress have a way of resurrecting unresolved questions. Few have proved as persistent as the debate around the future of the US dollar. Each cycle of volatility renews speculation about whether the world’s dominant reserve currency is approaching a point of inflection. In…
In an environment where India’s fixed-income markets are undergoing structural transition, treasury functions across financial institutions are being forced to adapt in real time. Few practitioners reflect this shift more clearly than Harsimran Singh Sahni, Executive Vice President and Head of Treasury at Anand Rathi Global Finance Limited, who has spent more than 15 years…
It’s 6:30 a.m. on a construction site in India. As workers gear up for another day of building a metro corridor, a live dashboard in the command centre hundreds of kilometres away is already flashing updates, equipment usage, workforce attendance, material deliveries and weather alerts. On paper, this looks like seamless efficiency. But behind the…
In today’s interconnected world, cybersecurity has become an essential aspect of business operations, irrespective of the organisation’s size. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in India are increasingly embracing digital transformation to enhance productivity and efficiency. However, this digital landscape also exposes them to various cyber threats. As SMEs adopt digital technologies and leverage the power…
