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Vinay Patel

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Firm is headed by Vinay Patel who has close to two decades of experience in research and business development at large, international investment banks such as HSBC and ICICI Securities. Led research efforts in areas of Macroeconomics, Asset Allocation & Investment Strategy for close to a decade in global & domestic research teams. As a business head in Singapore, advised top global investment management firms & Portfolio managers in Asia for India related investments.
Vinay was recently joined by Swapnil Manish, an investment banker and ex-ecommerce entrepreneur with more than 12 years of experience. Swapnil was the TMT banker at BNP Paribas and was part of several large M&A and ECM transactions (Bharti-Zain, Bharti Infratel IPO, Schneider-Zicom among several others). He's also had a stint as an ecommerce entrepreneur having launched & led Mumbai's first online grocery player.

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Removal of the government in Sri Lanka and appointment of the known pro-China head (Rajapaksa) as the Prime Minister came as a bolt from the blue for India especially when the President was supposedly anti-China himself. 
This pattern follows similar developments seen in Nepal and will likely to be repeated in the Maldives over the next couple of years. China's has easily been able to mend relations with the so-called anti-China (or pro-India) leaders in the smaller nations of the Indian Ocean and then restart its debt-fuelled investment cycle. 
Indian alliance with the US and Japan for initiatives in the Indo-pacific region hardly matches the size and speed of the moves by China. Unless India steps up investments into these countries any influence simply due to proximity and past history will fade quickly.

Removal of the government in Sri Lanka and appointment of the known pro-China head (Rajapaksa) as the Prime Minister came as a bolt from the blue for India especially when the President was supposedly anti-China himself. 
This pattern follows similar developments seen in Nepal and will likely to be repeated in the Maldives over the next couple of years. China's has easily been able to mend relations with the so-called anti-China (or pro-India) leaders in the smaller nations of the Indian Ocean and then restart its debt-fuelled investment cycle. 
Indian alliance with the US and Japan for initiatives in the Indo-pacific region hardly matches the size and speed of the moves by China. Unless India steps up investments into these countries any influence simply due to proximity and past history will fade quickly. 

China Beats India in the Indian Ocean with Chequebook Diplomacy: Story of Lanka, Nepal, Maldives