Inflation, Recession or Stagflation? The confused state of 2022 The last two years since the pandemic have been mostly difficult for everybody, but especially so for economists of the world. It’s almost as if their worst nightmare has come true. How so? Economists generally look at three macroeconomic variables to determine the state of the economy: GDP, unemployment and inflation. Each of these are important indicators of growth, stability and affordability. Under normal circumstances the rise or fall of one or two of these parameters simultaneously affects the third one negatively and vice v ..read more

Impact of Inflation on Businesses Inflation is desirable until it isn’t.  Governments all over the world have followed Japan’s lead in propping up their economies through monetary policy especially since the 2008 Great-financial-crisis (GFC). They have kept the interest rates artificially lower to allow the economy to grow and accept some inflation along the way. But what happens when inflation is not controllable ? E.g. from supply shocks as we are witnessing recently in 2022 BoJ head-scratching is not unique The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is a very interesting case study. BoJ adopted an intere ..read more

We held a session on “Corporate Treasury Management in today’s VUCA world” in the Fintech day held by Network Science as part of their Deeptech innovation week. Check out our session here: https://lnkd.in/e_Ci2hsR Read more.Download The post Corporate Treasury Management in today’s VUCA world appeared first on Finvisage ..read more

This week we had a wonderful technical discussion on recent event of short selling involving Gamestop. We discussed the role of Robinhood and the learnings for investors out of these extraordinary chain of events. We went into technical details of what a short squeeze is, what happened with GME, why Robinhood did what they did, what happened at WSB and if there are takeaways from this saga. Look out for an in-depth discussion on why Robinhood could have gotten such a large demand for capital. Watch the full discussion here. This recent event has once again showed us how Volatile times can mean ..read more

There is an adage: Buy the rumour sell the fact. Some articles seem to imply that today’s drop in oil price is also related to corona and part of the global retrenchment in the market. Nothing could be further from the truth. Oil price was definitely muted due to slack demand from oil consumers like airlines, but the 30% price decline is due to an oil-specific event. Russia and Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest and second-largest producers of oil, dissolved their fragile agreement from 2016 to coordinate on oil production. That agreement was controlling the amount ..read more

Patisserie Valerie says finance chief arrested The owner of Patisserie Valerie has said its finance director Chris Marsh was arrested last night and then released on bail. The cafe chain is fighting for survival after revealing on Wednesday it had uncovered “significant, and potentially fraudulent, accounting irregularities”. Mr Marsh had been suspended when these problems were discovered. Later on Friday the Serious Fraud Office said it had “opened a criminal investigation into an individual”. “We can give no further information or comment at this time,” the SFO sa ..read more

To what extent should we expect the demand for Trade Credit Insurance to increase in the UK and what are the major factors affecting the same? Executive Summary Initially the research paper begins with an Introduction on TCI’s processes, technological advances and key features. The report further proceeds with Results and Findings column, confronting data on several key economic factors affecting TCI on a macro scale. The Discussion and Analysis column extrapolates the data in Results and Finding to build a linkage with TCI. T ..read more

Treasury’s operations have become more significant demonstrating the mounting complexities of business strategies. Today companies are pressurised by shareholders and regulators for augmenting transparency and financial performance. Meeting these expectations is difficult for many companies with current system in place. Finvisage operates in Treasury Management System (TMS) industry which has become a great investment space from the last few years. According to 2018 AFP Treasury Management System Survey, more than 63% of european companies use T ..read more