India’s Next Banking Leap Lies Beyond What Customers Ever See

India transformed everyday banking through digital infrastructure. Its next challenge is the less visible overhaul of financial markets, risk management and supervision.

Rahul Ghosh

July 15, 2026 at 6:08 AM IST

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Tokenising Corporate Bonds: Can Technology Deepen India’s Debt Market?

The corporate bond market continues to face deep structural challenges—limited market making, concentrated liquidity, a narrow investor base, and relatively low retail awareness. Whether technology can help overcome these challenges is the big question.

Venkatakrishnan Srinivasan

July 2, 2026 at 5:35 AM IST

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India’s Bond Market Debate Needs a Wider Lens

India must shift from bank-led infrastructure finance to deeper bond markets that price risk transparently and recycle long-term savings into new assets.

Arvind Mayaram

May 29, 2026 at 4:00 AM IST

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Yield Volatility Slows Bond Issuances, But Themes for 2026-27 Are Emerging

Yield volatility, crude oil pressures and shifting funding preferences have slowed bond issuances, though the borrowing pipeline across sectors remains structurally strong.

Venkatakrishnan Srinivasan

May 11, 2026 at 8:06 AM IST

Corporate Bond Growth Hasn’t Shifted India’s Bank-Led Financial System

India’s corporate bond market is growing, but it has not fundamentally changed how credit flows through the financial system. Banks remain dominant, with bond market growth adding capacity rather than reshaping the system.

Abhishek Dey

April 17, 2026 at 9:37 AM IST

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India’s Bond Market Puzzle: The Missing Market Makers

India’s bond market lacks depth because trading remains thin. Unless natural players like the banks take a larger role in government and corporate debt, liquidity and benchmarks will remain weak.

Rahul Ghosh

March 6, 2026 at 7:47 AM IST

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Will Total Return Swaps Rescue India’s Corporate Bond Market?

RBI’s TRS framework promises synthetic liquidity in corporate bonds, but without deeper cash markets, derivatives may amplify fragility, not depth.

R. Gurumurthy

February 16, 2026 at 3:25 AM IST

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Bond Market-Making Needs Capital, Not Just Mandates

India wants market makers to revive corporate bond trading. Even gilts never got meaningful liquidity from mandates. Without risk capital, market-making will remain rhetoric.

R. Gurumurthy

February 12, 2026 at 7:22 AM IST

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Why Indians Know More About Crypto Than Corporate Bonds

SEBI finds Indians recognise cryptocurrency over bonds. Why participation beats predictability in markets and what behavioural finance reveals about risk.

Krishnadevan V

February 9, 2026 at 6:40 AM IST

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A Quiet Budget Signal That Could Wake India’s Corporate Bond Market

A low-key Budget proposal on total return swaps could transform India’s corporate bond market if regulators align infrastructure, liquidity and risk appetite in time.

Karan Mehrishi

February 5, 2026 at 8:20 AM IST

The Bureau

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Barclays Sees FCNR(B) Inflows Falling Short of Lofty Expectations, Flags Renewed Rupee Risks

Why India Shouldn't Lose Sleep Over the New US Russia Sanctions Bill

Growth Slows in 9 India Services Sub-Sectors in April, Improves in 10; Wholesale, Retail Among Laggards

India April 1-July 13 Net Direct Tax Collections Rise 16.4% to ₹6.51 Trillion

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The Foster Mother of Lodhi Garden

Shyam Sundar Sharma