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Vinay Patel

Asia focused research insights & advisory

Asia Advisors

Asia Advisors is an independent financial advisory and research firm working closely with corporates and institutions to provide consulting solutions & research insights. We provide advisory services including capital solutions, business strategy and investment insights.
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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<p>Bank Indonesia (BI) is almost on a warpath against Rupiah depreciation with another hike of 25bps yesterday partly coloured by the Turkish events. Total hikes by BI of 125bps seem excessive compared to other current account deficit (CAD) countries in Asia like India that has hiked only twice by 25bps each. Performance of the Rupee and Rupiah has not been vastly different especially over the last couple of months (both down around 2.2% each). So why has BI taken an aggressive stance in defending…</p>

Bank Indonesia (BI) is almost on a warpath against Rupiah depreciation with another hike of 25bps yesterday partly coloured by the Turkish events. Total hikes by BI of 125bps seem excessive compared to other current account deficit (CAD) countries in Asia like India that has hiked only twice by 25bps each. Performance of the Rupee and Rupiah has not been vastly different especially over the last couple of months (both down around 2.2% each). So why has BI taken an aggressive stance in defending…

Why Is Indonesia on Warpath to Defend IDR? 125bps of Hikes & Not Done Yet; Will Spl $ Deposit Follow