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Climate finance has often been discussed as a moral obligation of the developed world. That framing is no longer sufficient. In 2026, climate finance must be understood for what it has become: the operating system of the next global economy.

Reviving India's Gold Monetisation Scheme could reduce import reliance and unlock household gold stock. Success requires overcoming trust barriers, simplifying procedures, and targeting raw gold over emotional jewellery.

The combined market capitalisation of companies listed on the BSE stands at about INR 494 lakh crore. As the scale, participation and breadth of India’s listed market grow, so does the responsibility to protect the information on which investment decisions are made.

Corporate guarantees, traditionally used as instruments of group financing and treasury support, have emerged as a recurring area of tax controversy, evolving from predominantly a ‘consideration’ centric debate under the erstwhile service-tax regime to the broader questions of supply, valuation and point of tax under GST.

The Manufacture and Other Operations in Warehouse Regulations, 2019 (MOOWR) has become an important customs duty deferment framework for manufacturers in India.

Appeals under GST carry a statutory cost of entry. A taxpayer challenging an adverse order must first make the prescribed pre-deposit; once this condition is met, recovery of the balance demand is ordinarily deemed to be stayed until disposal of the appeal.

The GST credit mechanism rests on the premise that tax paid at the preceding stage should ordinarily flow as input tax credit, leaving businesses liable to tax only on their value addition.

As GST enters its tenth year, the anticipated 57th GST Council meeting assumes significance far beyond another round of tax rate changes or procedural amendments.

The government’s decision to relax FDI restrictions for inventory-based e-commerce exports is a natural progression of the export facilitation measures introduced by CBIC earlier this year.

By creating distinct incentives for manufacturing, localisation, and innovation, the mobile phone manufacturing scheme encourages businesses to invest across the entire mobile phone value chain.

The India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) marks a significant milestone in the evolution of one of the world's most important economic partnerships.

Boards need an AI implementation plan that defines outcomes, ownership, data safeguards, budgets, and monitoring mechanisms. The risks, from data leakage and vendor exposure to bias, hallucinations and regulatory gaps, must be built into the strategy from the start Not too long ago, at a quarterly Board meeting of a conglomerate, the group CFO spoke with conviction about the “AI agenda”.

The government recently extended the deadline to submit bids for the PLI scheme to make rare earth magnets.

If you ask most CFOs where they want to spend more time, the answer usually sounds reassuringly strategic: business partnering, decision support, shaping outcomes and helping business make better choices.

Nine years ago, GST replaced a fragmented web of excise duty, VAT, service tax and local levies with a single promise of ‘one nation, one tax’. By 2026, GST has evolved into a critical pillar of India's formal economy, creating a digital trail of transactions across sectors and supply chains while providing policymakers with an increasingly sophisticated and near real-time understanding of economic activity.

Equity-based compensation has become a cornerstone of modern remuneration strategies, particularly in knowledge-driven and high-growth sectors.