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Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
HDFC + HDFC Bank: Why India’s Biggest Finance Marriage Happened

The HDFC Ltd–HDFC Bank combination joined a housing-finance franchise with a deposit-funded bank and became a major case study in funding economics and…

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
Paytm Payments Bank: When a Fintech Rocket Hit the Compliance Wall

A payments app, its technology company and its regulated bank are not the same legal entity. That distinction became essential after RBI cancelled Paytm…

Corporate Finance & CFO
₹95 for $1: The Rupee Story Hidden Inside Your Everyday Budget

An exchange rate flows into fuel, electronics, foreign education, travel and company margins. ₹95 per dollar must be treated as a date-specific scenario, not a…

Governance, Secretarial & Professional Ethics
Satyam Scam: The Balance Sheet That Lied

Satyam became a defining governance case because reported revenue, profit and cash did not reflect the underlying position. The lasting lesson is to reconcile…

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
Amazon–Future: When One Investment Became a Legal Maze

A minority stake can carry strategic rights that matter far beyond its percentage. The Amazon–Future dispute shows why deal filings must describe the…

Insolvency, Debt Recovery & PMLA
Byju’s: The Edtech Rocket That Forgot Gravity

Hypergrowth can hide weak collections, delayed accounts and governance gaps while funding remains abundant. The insolvency process involving Think and Learn…

Insolvency, Debt Recovery & PMLA
DHFL: The Housing Finance Dream That Became an Insolvency Lesson

Housing loans are long-dated assets, but the institutions funding them can face immediate pressure when short-term borrowing, governance and market confidence…

Insolvency, Debt Recovery & PMLA
Essar Steel: The IBC Case That Changed Creditor Power

Essar Steel became a foundational Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code case because it tested who controls a resolution plan and how recoveries may differ among…

GST & Indirect Tax
GST: One Nation, One Tax, Many Compliance Lessons

GST created a common indirect-tax framework, but registration and compliance cannot be reduced to one turnover number. The threshold depends on supply type…

Investments & Markets
IL&FS: The Shadow Bank That Shook India’s Credit Market

IL&FS showed how a complex group can transmit stress through guarantees, short-term funding and confidence even when many underlying assets are long-term…

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
Jet Airways: How a Premium Airline Ran Out of Runway

Airlines can report strong traffic yet fail because leases, fuel, salaries, airport dues and debt require cash before turnaround promises become reality.

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
Jio: The Free Data War That Repriced India

Jio’s launch changed how India priced and consumed mobile data. The durable lesson is not simply that low prices win, but that network investment, distribution…

Agriculture, Food & Rural Economy
Kingfisher Airlines: The Glamour That Debt Couldn’t Carry

Brand visibility cannot compensate for weak liquidity, high fixed costs and mounting creditor obligations. Kingfisher Airlines is also a reminder to keep…

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
Maggi Ban: How a Two-Minute Noodle Became a Trust Case Study

The Maggi episode shows how testing, regulator communication and public confidence can rapidly become a balance-sheet issue. It also requires careful wording…

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Novartis Glivec: The Patent Case That Balanced Innovation and Access

The Glivec judgment is often reduced to a conflict between patents and access to medicines. Its legal core was narrower: whether the claimed beta-crystalline…

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
PNB–Nirav Modi: The Letter of Undertaking No One Watched

The Punjab National Bank case exposed how high-value obligations could be created through messaging and guarantee processes without timely reflection in the…

Banking, RBI & Payments
Repo Rate: The One Number Behind Your EMI

The repo rate influences financial conditions, but it does not mechanically reset every loan on the policy date. The effect depends on the loan benchmark…

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Sahara: The Fundraising Case Every Founder Should Read

Calling a fundraising private does not make it private when securities are offered to a very large number of people. Sahara also illustrates why similarly…

Investments & Markets
SVB: How a Safe Bond Portfolio Sank a Bank

A security can have low credit risk and still create severe market and liquidity risk. Silicon Valley Bank demonstrates what happens when long-duration assets…

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
Tata Nano: Why the Cheapest Car Couldn’t Become the Smartest Buy

The Tata Nano was an ambitious engineering attempt to make personal mobility more accessible. Its commercial difficulties cannot responsibly be reduced to one…

Banking, RBI & Payments
UPI: The Public Payment Rail That Beat Wallets

UPI’s scale comes from interoperable bank-account infrastructure that allows many apps to compete on a common rail. Volume and value, however, are payment-flow…

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
Vodafone Tax Case: The Deal That Changed India’s Tax Reputation

The Vodafone dispute became a global tax-policy case because it moved from a transaction-specific withholding question to retrospective legislation and, later…

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
Yes Bank Crisis: When Depositors Started Asking Questions

Yes Bank’s 2020 crisis showed how quickly confidence can become a liquidity issue. It also demonstrates that a temporary moratorium and a reconstruction scheme…

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Zomato, Blinkit and the 10-Minute Delivery Question

Fast delivery is built on dense local inventory and demand, not simply faster riders. The financial analysis must separate order value, accounting revenue…

Corporate Finance & CFO
AI in Finance: The CFO Who Uses Prompts Will Beat the CFO Who Uses Excuses

AI can accelerate finance work, but a faster answer is not automatically a reliable answer. The CFO still owns evidence, judgement and sign-off.

Financial Modelling, ERP & Analytics
Archegos: The Family Office That Hid Leverage in Plain Sight

Archegos did not need to own every share directly to build a concentrated market exposure. Total return swaps created economic exposure while fragmenting…

Governance, Secretarial & Professional Ethics
Boeing 737 MAX: The Cost of Treating Safety Like a Schedule Problem

Safety-critical businesses fail when schedule pressure, incomplete information and weak escalation combine. The 737 MAX case is a governance lesson, not merely…

Banking, RBI & Payments
Buy Now Pay Later: The EMI That Disguises Itself as Convenience

BNPL is credit even when the checkout page makes it feel like a payment feature. Several small obligations can become one large cash-flow problem.

Banking, RBI & Payments
Credit Cards: Reward Points or Behavioural Debt Trap?

A credit card is a convenient payment tool only when the bill is controlled. Revolving a balance can cost far more than the value of rewards earned.

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
Credit Suisse: 167 Years of Reputation, One Confidence Crisis

A bank can meet capital ratios and still lose the confidence needed to fund itself. Credit Suisse showed how reputation, liquidity and market access interact.

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
Demonetisation: The Cash Experiment India Still Debates

Demonetisation should be assessed against measurable outcomes, implementation costs and long-term behaviour—not only the objectives announced on day one.

Accounting, Audit & Ind AS
Enron: The Company That Invented Profits Before Earning Them

Enron became a symbol of financial reporting failure because complexity, incentives and conflicts made weak economics look like durable profit.

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
ESOPs: Startup Wealth or Taxable Mirage?

An ESOP can create wealth, but it can also create tax before cash. Employees should model exercise cost, perquisite tax, liquidity and exit restrictions…

SEBI & Securities Law
F&O Retail Losses: Why 93% Losing Traders Still Come Back

Leverage, short expiries and frequent feedback make F&O trading feel controllable. SEBI’s data shows that the typical retail outcome was very different.

Governance, Secretarial & Professional Ethics
FTX: The Crypto Exchange That Confused Customer Money With Empire Building

FTX looked liquid and sophisticated until customers asked for their assets back. The collapse exposed the difference between platform balances and verifiable…

Investments & Markets
GameStop: When Reddit Turned Short Interest Into a Movement

GameStop became a market-structure event because social-media attention, short positioning, options, order routing and clearing requirements collided.

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
Harshad Mehta: The Bank Receipt That Moved Dalal Street

The 1992 securities scam showed how weak reconciliation between banks, brokers and the government-securities market could transmit losses into public markets.

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
India 1991: The Crisis That Forced Reform

India’s 1991 crisis was a liquidity and credibility event at sovereign scale. The country needed immediate financing and a structural change in policy…

Investments & Markets
IPO GMP: The Grey Market Number Retail Investors Love Too Much

GMP is popular because it converts uncertainty into one number. The problem is that the number comes from an unofficial market with limited transparency.

SEBI & Securities Law
Jane Street: The Expiry-Day Trade That Put Algorithms on Trial

The Jane Street matter is a test of how cash-market trades, index derivatives and expiry-day incentives can be assessed together. It is also a test of careful…