Page 11 - Q&a

There is ambiguity over what is called BNPL: Juspay Technologies CEO

'The impact of tokenisation extends to the entire payment ecosystem', said Vimal Kumar

It's a struggle to balance cost vs selling price: Prestige Estates MD

Prestige Estates Projects saw its sales bookings jump twofold to a record Rs 4,267.6 crore in the third quarter of financial year 2021-22 (Q3FY22)

Greater political commitment to health care now: K Srinath Reddy

'We've had enough warnings as our health sector has been challenged in many ways during the different waves of the Covid-19 pandemic', said Reddy

Unity intact, Centrum is promoter of bank: Chairman Jaspal Bindra

'It has been 25 years since I first played the role of CEO in India', said Bindra

AI crucial in preventing security attacks, fraud: Razorpay co-founder

In a Q&A, Razorpay co-founder talks about opportunities that pandemic has thrown up for them to rejig their business and leverage digital technologies to serve customers

Rural sales value positive; volumes have declined: HUL's Sanjiv Mehta

'Once commodity prices start going down, we will adjust down the prices or increase the quantum of volume in the packs', said Mehta

OIL looking for partners to boost production from mature assets: Ops head

The company is planning to start drilling in newly acquired OALP blocks during the current financial year.

FM should take growth responsibility away from monetary policy: Pronab Sen

'The robust tax collections give the finance minister a fair amount of headroom for an expansionary fiscal policy', he said

States should realise urgency in lowering discoms losses: Power Secy

In a Q&A, Alok Kumar says the law, however, will speed up reforms, given a lot of investment is needed to meet the country's net-zero target

Our mobility card may be better than OysterPay: PayCraft's Ambarish Parekh

'We are implementing a mobile-based QR payment in offline mode in one of our upcoming Metro projects', said Parekh

Aviation is not a cash guzzling biz, if done right: Vinay Dube of Akasa Air

'There continues to be a lot of room for efficiency and cost optimisation', says Dube

Sustainability will be the key driver for growth: AIIB's Erik Berglöf

Countries offering decarbonisation opportunities will be more competitive, says AIIB chief economist Erik Berglöf

Gird up for higher volatility in 2022: Edelweiss MF's Trideep Bhattacharya

'We are constructive on mid- and small-caps stocks over the medium term', said Bhattacharya

Protecting customer data is foremost priority: ShareChat & Moj's Mukherjee

Today, Moj has the highest number of monthly active users-160 million amongst Indian short video apps

2021 saw greater collaboration among pharma, govt, academia: Sudarshan Jain

'Diversified supply chain is a fundamental need', said Jain

It's my job to take the best of both firms: Punit Goenka on Zee-Sony merger

CEO and managing director of Zee Entertainment speaks on alliance with Sony India announced on Thursday.

In India you don't have casual payer, you have casual player: Games24x7 CEO

'Gaming came into the limelight during the pandemic, and we also saw a bunch of states passing laws to ban this space'', said Bhavin Pandya

Tepid private consumption holding back investments: Ficci president Mehta

India needs 'virtuous cycle' of demand prompting capital spending that will lead to job creation, he says in an interview.

FIIs expected to return to the Indian equity market in 2022: Abhijit Bhave

The recent FII outflows can also be viewed as a year-end phenomenon and a possible knee-jerk reaction to recent events, Bhave said

Hospitalisations, not total Omicron cases, should concern us: Gautam Menon

'Boosters are certainly in order for the elderly, those health care workers who were vaccinated early on and the immunocompromised', said Menon