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How NFTs Hype pushes forward crypto and blockchain communities’ “agenda”
A digital artwork sold at Christie’s auction for an eye popping $69m, we start imagining a huge party where the owner lavishly shows off...

Kunal Nandwani
Mar 19, 20214 min read
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Future of The Greenbacks: Are the Dollar Days Over?
The US Dollar has enjoyed global dominance since it overtook British Pound post World War II as the globally accepted currency for...

Kunal Nandwani
Apr 16, 20205 min read
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ShareLibra Demystified
Facebook is launching its cryptocurrency – the Libra. And China has announced elections. Sounds incongruous? When a corporation known as...

Kunal Nandwani
Jun 19, 20197 min read
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Why has Blockchain not disrupted the world yet
Given its potential and arguable Bitcoin success as global digital virtual currency, why did Blockchain not disrupt the world yet 1. ICOs...

Kunal Nandwani
Apr 21, 20195 min read
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Book release and review – Squaring the Blockchain circle
Squaring the Blockchain circle (Nov 2018) The hype-fog surrounding the blockchain and its offspring cryptocurrencies is peaking, and this...

Kunal Nandwani
Nov 6, 20188 min read
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Why P2P lending opportunity may not scale for a long time
What is Peer-to-Peer Lending? Peer-to-peer lending (also known as person-to-person lending; abbreviated frequently as P2P lending) is...

Kunal Nandwani
Oct 17, 20164 min read
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Role of Technology in the Growth of Indian Financial Markets
Indian financial markets have seen a major growth in the current decade in terms of technological advancements. This has enabled growth...

Kunal Nandwani
May 20, 20155 min read
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Future of Fintech: Beyond 2015
Fintech will continue to grow and stay in headlines, but it will be far from the full disruption. I do not see a Google or Facebook alike...

Kunal Nandwani
May 20, 20152 min read
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NSEL crisis – Mini Version of US subprime crisis in Indian capital markets
The US subprime crisis in 2007 had shaken the foundation of US economy and eventually the global economy. Subprime loans (loans for...

Kunal Nandwani
Aug 18, 20134 min read
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Social Benefits of HFT and Algo Trading: Regulators should Embrace them
The tremendous growth in financial trading volumes in the last couple of decades has been made possible only with the use of technology....

Kunal Nandwani
Jun 18, 20135 min read
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Open Source Technology for Financial Services
Financial Services play an important role in the countries’ and their economies’ functioning. Following the credit crisis (2008), and its...

Kunal Nandwani
Nov 26, 20124 min read
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Algo Trading: The 1-O-1
Electronic trading in the last decade has laid the foundation for increased use of technology in the financial markets. If a trader’s...

Kunal Nandwani
Nov 18, 20123 min read
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Basics of Financial Trading
In finance, trade is typically an exchange of a financial security (share, bond, etc.) with cash. (To understand more around how...

Kunal Nandwani
Nov 18, 20122 min read
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Electronic trading
Trading process has evolved over time. An individual or an institution needs to trade through a broker who is a member of the exchange....

Kunal Nandwani
Nov 18, 20122 min read
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Dark Pools
Financial exchanges are the market places where buyers and sellers of financial securities trade (buy and sell). The exchanges have...

Kunal Nandwani
Nov 18, 20122 min read
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The Rise of Investment Banking in the Last 3 Decades
The Rise of Investment Banking Investment Banking has offered one of the best paid jobs and it’s questionable whether the Bankers did...

Kunal Nandwani
Oct 27, 20127 min read
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Securitisation: The 1-O-1
Securitisation has been a key factor in the rise of financial services businesses and it poorly managed sub-prime loans distributed...

Kunal Nandwani
Oct 27, 20125 min read
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What is the role of an Investment Bank?Different Investment Banks would have a variant of the follo
What is the role of an Investment Bank? Different Investment Banks would have a variant of the following generic business structure....

Kunal Nandwani
Oct 23, 201223 min read
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How does an Investment Bank differ from a Retail Bank?
A bank is a financial institution with the purpose of lending and borrowing money. Retail banks are banks with retail customers (most...

Kunal Nandwani
Oct 23, 20122 min read
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Root of Sub-Prime/Credit Crisis of 2008
What caused the sub-prime problem will be discussed and debated for long time. Many blame the Sub-Prime crisis upon Greedy Wall Street...

Kunal Nandwani
Oct 23, 20127 min read
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