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
- Apr 16, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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Kunal Nandwani
- Jun 19, 2019
- 7 min
ShareLibra Demystified
Facebook is launching its cryptocurrency – the Libra. And China has announced elections. Sounds incongruous? When a corporation known as...
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Kunal Nandwani
- Apr 21, 2019
- 5 min
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...
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Kunal Nandwani
- Nov 6, 2018
- 8 min
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...
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Kunal Nandwani
- Oct 17, 2016
- 4 min
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...
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Kunal Nandwani
- May 20, 2015
- 5 min
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...
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Kunal Nandwani
- May 20, 2015
- 2 min
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...
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Kunal Nandwani
- Aug 18, 2013
- 4 min
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...
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Kunal Nandwani
- Jun 18, 2013
- 5 min
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....
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Kunal Nandwani
- Nov 26, 2012
- 4 min
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...
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Kunal Nandwani
- Nov 18, 2012
- 3 min
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...
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Kunal Nandwani
- Nov 18, 2012
- 2 min
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...
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Kunal Nandwani
- Nov 18, 2012
- 2 min
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....
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Kunal Nandwani
- Nov 18, 2012
- 2 min
Dark Pools
Financial exchanges are the market places where buyers and sellers of financial securities trade (buy and sell). The exchanges have...
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Kunal Nandwani
- Oct 27, 2012
- 7 min
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...
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Kunal Nandwani
- Oct 27, 2012
- 5 min
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...
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Kunal Nandwani
- Oct 23, 2012
- 23 min
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....
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Kunal Nandwani
- Oct 23, 2012
- 2 min
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...
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Kunal Nandwani
- Oct 23, 2012
- 7 min
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...
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