Category: Infrastructure Finance

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Project finance: Time for calculating the risks

Project finance: Time for calculating the risks

Employing probabilistic risk models could provide an objective basis of evaluating and tracking risks as they wax and wane through the project stages. Infrastructure projects are all about taking calculated risks, but before taking the risks, one needs to calculate them well,

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At the helm of CSDC

At the helm of CSDC

Ajit Gulabchand, Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Construction Company (HCC), has been appointed Chairman of the Construction Skills Development Council (CSDC), the Sector Skill Council for the construction sector approved by the National Skill Development Corporation,

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Beyond finance

Beyond finance

Finance was probably in his genes as his grandfather was one of the first CAs in South India and his uncle was also a CA. A normal middle class boy born in a small town in Andhra Pradesh, Devatha Prasad became the head of finance of Essar Projects Business Group.

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Finance Minister’s target said to be unrealistic

Finance Minister’s target said to be unrealistic

Industry watchers feel that the target for project implementation given by Finance Minister P Chidambaram to the shipping ministry for 2012-13 is unrealistic. The finance ministry gave a target of achieving a total investment of Rs 35,000 crore and a capacity addition of 244 million tonne during the year. The shipping ministry has managed to achieve 18 per cent of the targeted inves

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RBI defers Basel norms for currency derivatives

RBI defers Basel norms for currency derivatives

In a notification, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said it delayed the implementation of Basel-III regulations for currency derivatives segment to January 2014. The central bank postponed the implementation for the segment pending resolution of norms regarding trade settlement. But the RBI said the new capital adequacy requirements will be implemented from April 1. In view of the shift in the start date of Basel III implementation, all ins

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BRICS to set up development bank for infra projects

BRICS to set up development bank for infra projects

At the recently concluded BRICS summit in Durban, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa decided to set up a development bank to finance infrastructure projects in these countries. But the countries have not decided the size of the proposed bank, leaving it to finance ministers to nego

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DHFL Vysya reduces interest rate on loan

DHFL Vysya reduces interest rate on loan

From April 1, DHFL Vysya Housing Finance decided to reduce interest rate on advances across the spectrum for new as well as existing borrowers by 20 basis points. The company is an associate of Dewan Housing Finance and operates in south India. The Bangalore-based lender is the first housing finance company to announce lending rate cut this year, Managing director R Nambirajan said. At present, the company's lowe