Central Banks & Financial Regulation

2024

Banking on banks for Natural Justice, Bhargavi Zaveri Shah, IndiaCorpLaw Blog, 30th March, 2024

Open questions on RBI's enforcement actions in Indian Fintech, Bhargavi Zaveri Shah, IndiaCorpLaw Blog, 22nd February, 2024

2023

No silver lining to RBI's cloud, Bhargavi Zaveri Shah, Business Standard, 23rd December, 2023

75 years of India's foreign exchange controls: A story of Slow Burn Liberalization, Bhargavi Zaveri Shah, The 1991 Project, 8th December, 2023.

Why investors were lukewarm to SBI's July AT-1 issuance, Bhargavi Zaveri Shah and Harsh Vardhan, Money Control, 7th August, 2023.

How will courts decide in bond holders versus central banks, Harsh Vardhan and Bhargavi Zaveri Shah, IndiaCorpLaw Blog, 23rd January, 2023.

The Bombay High Court's Yes Bank Judgement: Falling Short on Fairness, Harsh Vardhan and Bhargavi Zaveri Shah, IndiaCorpLaw Blog, 24th January, 2023.

2022

How are securities laws enforced in India, Devendra Damle and Bhargavi Zaveri Shah, The LEAP Blog, 22nd September, 2022

If it looks and walks like a duck, it is a duck, Harsh Vardhan and Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah, BQ Prime, 22nd August, 2022.

Did SEBI's ban on agri-futures work?, Harsh Vardhan and Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah, BQ Prime, 13th May, 2022. 

Use-cases of a Digital Rupee to the average household and business in India, Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah, IndiaCorpLaw Blog, 4th February, 2022 

2021

The ban on agri-commodity futures is weak in law and economics, Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah and Harsh Vardhan, BloombergQuint, 29th December, 2021

Should consumers be restricted from storing their card data on the internet?, Renuka Sane, Ajay Shah and Bhargavi Zaveri, The LEAP Blog, 26th May, 2021.

Should Payment Gateways be subject to India's anti-money laundering law?, by Bhargavi Zaveri, BloombergQuint, 26th February, 2021

2020

Liberalising foreign capital flows in Government debt: No time for incrementalism, by Radhika Pandey, Rajeswari Sengupta and Bhargavi Zaveri The leap blog, 23rd April 2020.

Coronavirus: When Courts Rewrite Contracts And Regulatory Norms, by Harsh Vardhan and Bhargavi Zaveri BloombergQuint, 13th April 2020.

The Covid-19 Moratorium Solves Only Half Our Problems, by Harsh Vardhan and Bhargavi Zaveri BloombergQuint, 2nd April 2020.

Margin Calls In Times Of Covid-19, by Harsh Vardhan and Bhargavi Zaveri BloombergQuint, 1st April 2020.

2019

2019 was a year of 'collateral' damage, Here are the ways to fight it in 2020, by Bhargavi Zaveri, Moneycontrol, 30th December 2019.

Identifying The Right Insolvency Framework For Financial Services Firms, by Anjali Sharma and Bhargavi Zaveri, BloombergQuint, 16th November, 2019. 

Problems with evidentiary standards for proving securities fraud in India, by Nidhi Aggarwal and Bhargavi Zaveri, The leap blog, 23rd August 2019.

A regulatory strategy for alternative finance in India, by Aatmin Shah and Bhargavi Zaveri, Moneycontrol, 28th March 2019.

2018

Make financial sector reform mainstream political agenda in 2019, by Bhargavi Zaveri, Moneycontrol, 27th December 2018.

RBI's alternative route for foreign debt inflows, by Radhika Pandey, Rajeswari Sengupta and Bhargavi Zaveri, The leap blog, 6th November 2018.

RBI rules for market abuse, electronic trading platforms is regulatory overreach, by Bhargavi Zaveri, Moneycontrol, 15th October 2018.

Runs on mutual funds, by Renuka Sane, Ajay Shah, Bhargavi Zaveri, The LEAP blog, republished in Moneycontrol, 12th October 2018 and 13th October 2018.

The decade after 2008 crisis is a missed opportunity for structural reforms in the Indian financial sector, Somasekhar Sundaresan and Bhargavi Zaveri, Moneycontrol, 14th September 2018

Reform, do not rationalise, by Radhika Pandey and Bhargavi Zaveri, Business Standard, 7th May 2018

Ending data-sharing, licences with offshore bourses a bad move; here's why by Bhargavi Zaveri and Radhika Pandey, Business Standard, 19th February 2018

Disclosure of default: The present SEBI disclosure regulation is adequate by Ajay Shah and Bhargavi Zaveri, Ajay Shah's blog, 11th January 2018

Please see archives for articles published pre-2018.