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The Single Family Office (SFO) structures are designed to help establishment of these Family Offices without the requirement of any license or become registered to provide fund management services to the investment vehicles held by a ultra-high net worth family.

Although the RBI guidelines seem promising, seamless debt recovery from borrowers is still a far-fetched reality for lenders. One of the major pain points of every lender is irregular payments and loan defaults by borrowers. Since interest is the primary income source for lenders, many commercial banks and regulated entities are facing losses and are becoming reluctant to offer loans in the future due to the piling up of non-performing assets (NPAs).

Back home, inflation has been following a similar trajectory although it has recently been showing signs of peaking off. Since we do not live in an isolated world, global markets including ours will move in a synchronized fashion. No market can remain decoupled from another for long although there may be a lag in market moves.

The current tax architecture should be changed to allow for set-off and carry forward of losses in VDAs similar to equity shares/derivatives. The 30% threshold was set in response to comparisons of digital assets with highly speculative avenues such as gambling, betting, and so on. However, VDAs are similar to securities trading and should, therefore, be treated similarly with respect to taxation and setoff benefits.

Now that the ban on seven agri-commodity futures contracts in India is more than a year, it is becoming difficult for the market participants to get a better price discovery mechanism and also find it difficult to operate in physical commodities without having any hedge platform to cover their price risk

"Friday’s turn of events presents an opportunity in the near-term though. Firstly, we have slipped over 1400 points from the record peak and are at a 3 Standard Deviation (SD) boundary, which suggests that an end to downtrend is nearing. Secondly Nifty PCR (put call ratio) is at 0.67 after Friday’s carnage, and incidentally, the last time we had negative close and sub 1 PCR ahead of Budget, we saw a 4% gain in the 3 days post budget."

Non-banking financial services company Bajaj Finserv is among a range of domestic companies that will announce earnings on Monday. Here are some of the key corporate earnings to watch out for.

Results that will be out on January 30 include Larsen & Toubro, Bajaj Finserv, Tech Mahindra, Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Bajaj Holdings & Investment, GAIL, SRF, Punjab National Bank, REC, Laurus Labs, IIFL Finance, Trident, Exide Industries, Nippon Life India Asset Management, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, Welspun as well as Inox Leisure.

"We are hoping to reduce debt further by Rs 1,000 crore by end of this fiscal year to about Rs 7000 crore," Lodha said.The company plans to cut debt by Rs 500-800 crore every quarter."We will hope to be close to Rs 5,000 crore of net debt sometime by end of this calendar year," Lodha said.

For FPIs, 2022 was a subdued year in terms of flow and withdrawal from equities after a net investment in the preceding three years.According to the data with the depositories, FPIs have made a net withdrawal of Rs 17,023 crore this month (till January 27).