By 2026, supply chains are no longer in recovery mode. They are operating within a new normal defined by persistent disruption. What initially appeared as temporary shocks during the pandemic years has evolved into a long-term structural condition influenced by trade policy shifts, geopolitical realignments, resource constraints and systemic vulnerabilities. For both global and Indian…
Financial crime has always adapted to technology. What is different today is the speed and asymmetry with which criminals can now manufacture trust. Deepfakes, voice cloning and generative AI have moved fraud from the margins of deception to its industrialisation. The result is a new wave of financial crime that targets not systems first, but…
Regulation is rarely celebrated. In boardrooms and operating teams alike, compliance is often viewed as a necessary cost, an obligation to be managed, minimised and, where possible, delegated. Yet across global markets, a quiet shift is underway. Regulatory complexity is no longer merely a constraint on growth; it is becoming a strategic lever. Companies that…
India’s economic engagement with China over the past five years tells a sobering story. While bilateral trade volumes have expanded, the balance has moved steadily against India. Exports to China have declined from around $22 billion in FY21 to roughly $14 billion in FY25. Imports, meanwhile, have surged from $65 billion to over $113 billion…
For decades, operational technology was treated as an engineering problem rather than a boardroom concern. Factory floors, power plants and logistics hubs ran on the assumption that isolation equalled safety. That assumption no longer holds. As manufacturing systems converge with IT networks and cloud platforms, operational technology (OT) has moved from the periphery of cybersecurity…
For much of the past decade, operational resilience was treated as an insurance policy: costly, necessary, and largely invisible when things went right. Today, that framing is no longer sufficient. In an era marked by supply-chain fragmentation, cyber disruptions, climate volatility and abrupt shifts in capital flows, resilience has emerged as a source of competitive…
Boardrooms are being reshaped less by regulation than by risk. Across markets, directors are discovering that traditional governance frameworks, built for incremental change and stable assumptions, are increasingly misaligned with a world defined by volatility, technology shocks and geopolitical spillovers. By 2026, “good oversight” will no longer be measured by the number of committees formed…
For years, cybersecurity was treated as a technical function: delegated to the CISO, discussed in IT sub-committees and reviewed primarily through the lens of compliance. That era is decisively over. In today’s environment of AI-enabled threats, geopolitical cyber spillovers and digitally intertwined supply chains, cyber resilience has become a CEO-level metric, one that increasingly defines…
Artificial intelligence has moved faster into boardrooms than most previous technologies. In a matter of months, AI systems have been embedded into customer service, credit assessment, fraud detection, HR screening, software development and strategic analysis. For many organisations, the narrative is one of rapid adoption and visible productivity gains. Yet beneath this enthusiasm sits a…
Cybersecurity has long been treated as a technical discipline, often siloed within IT teams and measured by compliance metrics, incident response times, or the number of vulnerabilities patched. But the reality is changing cyber risk is no longer an operational footnote it is a core dimension of business strategy. Today, boards are less interested in…
