MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan inched down 0.1 per cent, though it was still within sight of a nine-month high touched last week.

According to the RBI 2015 assessment, India's overall food security robustness has been on the general upward trend since 2000, showing progress in improving the robustness of the systems that underpin food security in the country.

That would mark the first time the nation has been a net importer of the sweetener in four years, with the switch likely to support global prices that have already been rising this year.

The oldest banking award in the country just got a qualitative makeover.

The bank announced the move saying it would \"make every possible effort to avoid compulsory redundancies\" as it cuts the jobs by 2018. Worldwide, Rabobank employs some 48,000 people.

US Treasury yields and the dollar rose while Wall Street initially sold off and then reversed, after the Fed made an explicit reference to December rate hike.

Every industry segment wants to leverage enablers like social media, mobility, analytics, cloud, internet of things etc to enhance business and hence every CEO today has a 'Digital agenda' mandate. Government agencies are not lagging behind and they too have started riding the digital wave.

Private sector Yes Bank was on Saturday forced to resort to paper ballots for appointment of three new directors on its board following dissent from one of the founding families.

Financial markets around the world were roiled on Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest slide since the country was hit by a devastating tsunami more than two years ago.

Once an unfashionable sector, agribusiness has lately seen strong interest from PE and venture capital (VC) funds. With both conventional and specialised PE and VC firms warming up to agribusiness, companies in the sector are well placed to realise their potential, and funding may not be a problem after all.

As traditional headcount-and-revenues evaluation of IT companies loses relevance, the software industry needs to disclose more.They need to do this for the analyst community to be able to accurately model and forecast revenue and profitability growth.

The transaction was part of the British banking major's global strategy to divest stakes in banks and other companies in which it holds stake.

HSBC is likely to sell stake in private sector lenders Axis Bank and Yes Bank as part of its global strategy and is understood to have appointed merchant bankers for the deals.

After a turbulent 2011, the 17 countries that use the euro will be quickly confronted in the new year with major hurdles to solving their government debt crisis, just as the eurozone economy is expected to sink back into recession.

Therating action for domestic banks comes a day after S&P downgraded as manyas 15 large banks globally, including some big American names like Bank ofAmerica, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, coming as a major blow to thealready-struggling banking sector in a weak global economic scenario.

Rabobank is present in India through a wholly owned subsidiary, Rabo India Finance (RIF), which is registered as a Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC).

Continuing with our series on India's New Business Dynasties, we feature Rana Kapoor who gave up a top notch banker's job to set up his own bank. Today, YES Bank has revenues of Rs 2,369 crore and a market capitalisation of Rs 9,500 crore.

Kotak Bank and YES Bank started about the same time and are growing smartly - but with distinct strategies.