Explore every episode of the podcast Boring Money

WeWork Inc is exiting its India business by selling to WeWork India's majority shareholder, Embassy Group. But there's more to it than meets the eye.

JM Financial wants to sell Piramal's bonds to investors but no large investor wants to buy them. Here's what it does.

To read: https://boringmoney.in/p/jm-financial-did-funny-stuff-bonds

Subscribe on boringmoney.in

Pharmeasy had to choose between selling its recent acquisition, Thyrocare, or stifling its investors that have been with it for the last 8 years. It chose the latter.

SEBI issued a number of orders against companies failing to make timely disclosures. SAT agrees that the companies were at fault, yet overturned SEBI's orders. Now the issue is with the Supreme Court. What's happening?

To read: https://boringmoney.in/p/sebi-feuds-with-sat-in-sc

Four years ago I read an article in The Ken about how Byju's was selling loans to parents and putting them in a debt trap. Three days ago, Byju's sued its own lenders accusing of putting it into a debt trap. Here's the story. To read it in full: https://boringmoney.in/p/byjus-is-sued-by-its-lenders

SEBI just released a consultation paper that changes how mutual funds can charge their fees. Here are two incentives that SEBI is trying to change.

1. Mutual funds today earn when they accumulate money. SEBI is enabling them to instead earn when they perform better.

2. Distributors hold sway over their customers and switch them to new funds because they receive higher commissions. SEBI is going to be changing that.

The consultation paper does raise some questions around overregulation and to what extent SEBI should dictate how mutual funds make money.

To read the full post or to subscribe: https://boringmoney.in/p/sebi-mutual-funds-ter-performance

Go First goes to NCLT and declares voluntary insolvency. Wadia Group, which owns Go First, might be submitting a bid to continue owning the company. This whole episode might just be a way for the Group to get a discount on its debt. But there might be other buyers.

Unacademy buys a non-profit CodeChef from Directi. After two years, it turns it into a for-profit but gives away ownership to the management.

GoMechanic commits accounting fraud, and that crashes its valuation. CarTrade wants to buy GoMechanic, but is waiting to close the deal likely for cheaper. Finally, GoMechanic's founders might get rich anyway.

Adani finally manages to raise money with a stock sale. But why would GQG Partners, a well-known investment firm, buy Adani Group stock?

To read: https://boringmoney.substack.com/p/adani-finds-an-investor

SEBI issued 2 orders in 2 days penalising people for pumping-and-dumping stocks. The pump-and-dump had people create artificial volumes, make YouTube videos, sell ads to popularise them, and then finally dump them. Even Arshad Warsi was involved. Yet, this was an easy catch for SEBI because none of the scam participants took the least of measures to hide their tracks.

To read: https://boringmoney.substack.com/p/youtube-is-great-for-pump-and-dumps

The Indian government issues sovereign green bonds for the first time. But it's mostly government-owned banks that are buying them. Meanwhile, Indore issues green bonds without a greenium. To read: https://boringmoney.substack.com/p/india-sells-some-green-bonds

Credit Suisse stops accepting Adani bonds as Collateral. Barclays asks Adani to partially repay his loan. SBI is happy to accept falling Adani stock as collateral. To read: https://boringmoney.substack.com/p/adani-repays-some-loans

Adani got accused of fraud, then he sold stock to public investors, and then returned the money?

Here's what happened.

To read: https://boringmoney.substack.com/p/adani-fraud-fpo-success-cancel