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INDIAN GST - WHAT, WHEN, WHY

More than 10 years after it was initially proposed, India has rolled out a Goods and Services Tax on July 1 2017 making it the single biggest tax reform since Indian independence in 1947. The GST will simplify a highly complex and layered tax system comprising of upto 17 ...

Fluctuating Exchange Rate impact bottom line 

The travel industry is an international business with FX movements having a direct impact on bottom line, exposing the businesses to economic uncertainties and making it difficult to protect your projected profit margins. Travel Agents and Opera...

Out of the 284 Australian family offices that we regularly speak to, 22% have shown strong interest to invest into India. Yet, we are only aware of 7% who have been investing into India to date.

Ever since our efforts began over the past 4 years to educate the family office sector about the India opp...

Every corner we turn, the world is abuzz with words like Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Video Analytics and Machine Learning, but what do these buzzwords mean? Can we imagine a world today without a mobile and internet? The answer seems to be a big ‘No!’ to most part of the world ...

At the AsiaConnect roundtable hosted by Swaab Attorneys - Ram Gorlamandala, Co-founder and Director at Tat Capital presented the story behind the state of Fintech in India including the impact Aadhaar (India's national biometric identity card) has had on individuals and corporates and how ...

"When you bring a new capability like Aadhaar, it takes time for people to understand what it does and how it can be used. There is certain diffusion time, we are in that phase, I am very confident in the coming year, Aadhaar based companies and application will be numerous. It will become a bi...

For a long period of time the internet has been the median for search, transfer and exchange of data, disrupting communication channels such as phone, fax and mail. Then came the age of analytics with high-tech platforms, systems and processors. Now with the evolution of smart technologies, internet...

The world we live today is deeply connected and wired in more than one way. Impact of technology is felt across both corporations and individuals in the same way. Economic development and social upliftment of citizens globally is underpinned by the rapid advancement of digitization. The First Indust...

India is growing at 7%, making it the fastest growing major economy in the world, but everyone already knows this. It will be the youngest country with an average age of 29 and contribute to 25% of the global working force by 2020. Some paradigm changing government initiatives like Digital Indi...

Introduction

Our direct reach to principals of 350 single family offices (SFOs) and executives of 50 multi-family offices (MFOs) with a total wealth of $473.5 billion as at December 2016 – across Australia, New Zealand and the Indian subcontinent, has provided great insight into the family office sec...

Introduction

Given an increasingly globalised world and the fact that we live on an island continent, more and more businesses are importing foreign goods and solutions, using offshore teams and have international customer bases. Inevitably, this means direct and indirect exposures to foreign currenc...

Apart from being a critical driver of economic growth, foreign direct investment (FDI) is a major source of non-debt financial resource for the economic development of India. Foreign companies invest in India to take advantage of a young, well-educated, English speaking workforce, relatively lower w...

Key Insights

• Australian investors’ propensity to allocate capital into domestic small caps is much greater than global small caps. This is despite the evidence for a superior ‘small cap effect’ in the global equity markets.

• Global small caps have a number of unique attributes that appear structural in...

Introduction

Bitcoin and blockchain technologies have received a lot of press coverage in recent times, and it is important to understand the relationship and differences between the two.

In this article, we aim to explain and demystify some of the key concepts underpinning these technologies. 

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ABSTRACT

On November 8, 2016, India has seen a few historic announcements from the prime minister’s office in relation to cancelling the high denomination of 500 and 1000 rupee notes with an objective.

Even as ordinary citizens queue up for cash and economists are busy estimating the extent to which e...