India has been ranked sixth in the list of wealthiest countries with total wealth of $8,230 billion, while the United States topped the chart, says a report. According to a report by New World Wealth, the United States is the wealthiest country in the world as the total wealth held in 2017 amounted to $64,584 billion, followed by China at the second place with $24,803 billion and Japan with $19,522 billion at third.

A firm believer in formal banking systems, eminent banker Uday Kotak feels gold is the only alternative currency that has worked ever without any state support and sees no regulatory backing in immediate future for numerous crypto currencies that have cropped up. The most famous among all, bitcoin has been seeing a huge traction lately even as its prices have been extremely volatile, surging to close to USD 20,000 per unit a few weeks ago but only to fall below USD 10,000 soon after.

Confident that automation and artificial intelligence will help businesses upscale and grow bigger, a top TCS executive says the job loss fears in the IT industry are highly exaggerated and it is the organisation’s responsibility to reskill and upskill its workers. Chief Operating Officer N Ganapathy Subramaniam, who has been with TCS for 35 years and is known as NGS among colleagues, said the ‘change’ is the only constant in the IT industry and internally his company uses it as an acronym -‘Change Has Another Name, Gaining Excellence’.

Indian Oil Corp Ltd said its third-quarter profit nearly doubled, handily beating estimates.

Net profit surged 97 percent to Rs 78.83 billion ($1.24 billion) in the quarter ended December 31, from Rs 39.95 billion a year earlier.

PARIS: Seventy years ago, a 12-year-old boy seething with resentment over his treatment in apartheid South Africa was sent to his grandfather in rural India on an anger management course.

The boy, who grew up in an Indian ashram near the city of Durban, had been getting into a lot of fights. White children picked on him because he wasn't white; black children picked on him because he wasn't black.

India’s market regulator is weighing options to direct stock exchanges to either stop offering securities-related data feed services to entities trading on bourses abroad, such as the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX), or levy high additional fees on the traders.

Microsoft has acquired gaming start-up PlayFab for an undisclosed sum and will integrate its services into Azure platform to help developers build better games. PlayFab powers more than 1,200 live games and has served over 700 million players. “Together, Azure and PlayFab will further unlock the power of the intelligent cloud for the gaming industry, enabling game developers and delighting gamers around the world,” Kareem Choudhry, Corporate Vice President of gaming at Microsoft, said in a blog post.

Reliance Communications (RCom) announced on Monday that its planned exit from the consumer business has resulted in a sharp drop in the company’s consolidated net loss sequentially to Rs 130 crore for the three months ended December 31, 2017 from a net loss of Rs 2,712 crore in the July-September 2017 period.

Mortgage lender Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) on Monday reported a 233% year-on-year (y-o-y) jump in its standalone net profit for the December quarter at Rs 5,670.21 crore, driven largely by a one-time gain of Rs 3,675.31 crore from the sale of its stake in HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company. Adjusted for the one-time gain, the company’s performance exceeded expectations of analysts, based on Bloomberg collated data. HDFC’s net interest income (NII) for the quarter came in at Rs 2,929 crore against Rs 2,575 crore in the same quarter last year, a rise of 14%.

Yes Bank on Monday priced its five-year dollar bonds at 130 basis points over the five-year US Treasury yield, sources aware of the deal confirmed to FE. The bank is believed to have raised $600 million through the issue, which is the first foreign currency bond offering by the lender. The initial price guidance on the bonds was 150 basis points over the Treasury yield, according to sources. This means the spread narrowed by 20 basis points, which is considered a significant compression for a debut issuer, a banker said.

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