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Opinion Editorials

Our opinion editorials are published in newspapers, magazines, and new-age online publications. They are an important tool for public discourse and advocacy. They help us to raise awareness about important issues, and they often provide a platform for perspectives from our researchers, to be presented and to be heard.

December 4, 2018 | Moneycontrol

Several studies have found that the Indian banking sector, while having a large number of players, has monopolistic competition.

By Deepti George, Madhu Srinivas
October 26, 2018 | LiveMint

NBFCs are particularly vulnerable to wholesale funding constraints in the form of high and volatile borrowing costs

By Deepti George, Madhu Srinivas
October 24, 2018 | Financial Express

Ideas on how to benefit from the account opening momentum and make progress on usage as well.

By Bindu Ananth, Greta Bull
September 7, 2018 | BQ Prime

Op-Ed in Bloomberg Quint

By Deepti George, Madhu Srinivas
August 24, 2018 | Scroll.in

The heady optimism following the judgment is beginning to wane in the absence of a practical law that enforces the rights it asserted.

April 23, 2018 | LiveMint

The troubles of the banking sector, and public sector banks (PSBs) in particular, are well known.

March 20, 2018 | Scroll.in

The harvesting of 50 million Facebook users’ data for Trump’s presidential campaign underscores new challenges for data protection.

March 9, 2018 | The Hindu Business Line

Future financial services providers will be akin to general physicians, who bear great responsibility for the health of their patients. Such a prescriptive approach would minimise instances of unsuitable advice.

By Deepti George, Shilpa Sathe
January 27, 2018 | Hindustan Times

These avoidable implementation challenges on account of Aadhaar can be significantly resolved by a clear legal articulation of permissible uses of Aadhaar through suitable amendments.

October 13, 2017 | LiveMint

The collection and use of personal data in order to deliver public and commercial services is now routine in India. For a country with large digital ambitions, one of the key questions will be: How should we think about regulating the use of Indians’ personal data?