BL Chandak, former DGM at SIDBI, has worked for over three decades in research, project appraisal, credit sanctioning, policy liaison, and branch management.
India’s financial data are extensive, but policy can still miss the economy beneath the aggregates when trade credit, payment behaviour and import distortions remain invisible.
BL Chandak
September 2, 2026 at 3:50 AM IST
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Models can illuminate the economy, but when they overlook financial behaviour, trade credit and business realities, policy can diagnose the wrong problem
September 1, 2026 at 6:13 AM IST
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Despite a world-class digital payment system, high-value currency continues to rise. The missing explanation may lie not in the payment system, but in India's trade with China.
July 9, 2026 at 5:28 AM IST
The trade credit network is trust-based, and economic or geopolitical uncertainties disrupt its delicate balance. What India needs is to formalise this framework to ensure safeguarding manufacturing growth and financial stability.
June 25, 2026 at 6:02 AM IST
A hidden slowdown in trade credit flows is tightening liquidity at the base of India’s economy, subtle today but potentially systemic if ignored for long.
May 6, 2026 at 5:44 AM IST
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India has the rails to modernise working capital. Linking invoices with payments can cut fraud, sharpen pricing and improve credit flow.
February 24, 2026 at 5:24 AM IST
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India’s working-capital system focuses on bank limits, not trade credit. Supplier credit and payment behaviour remain the economy’s hidden engine.
February 23, 2026 at 6:04 AM IST
Link invoices with payments to turn cash flows into real-time credit signals, easing MSME, traders, small and mid-caps liquidity stress and fixing India's trade-credit blind spot.
January 2, 2026 at 11:29 AM IST