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Varma, Jayanth R

Governance at ICICI Bank: Chairman's Dilemma

Barua, Samir K ; Varma, Jayanth R

IIMA-FA0566 | Published February 09, 2022 | 9 pages Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

The non-executive Chairman, Chaturvedi, must lead the Board of Directors of ICICI Bank as it deals with the adverse findings by a former Supreme Court Read More

Nayan Parikh & Consultants: Loan against Shares

Varma, Jayanth R ; Parikh, Nayan ; Thakkar, Ritesh

IIMA-FA0564 | Published December 24, 2021 | 13 pages Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

In March 2021, Nayan Parikh & Consultants (NPC) has to decide how to recover the loan that it had extended to Shrenikbhai Vimawala, Chairman and M Read More

Northern Textiles Limited (B)

Varma, Jayanth R ; Ghosh, Rahul

IIMA-FA0559(B) | Published August 23, 2021 | 22 pages Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

NTL suffered huge losses in its foreign exchange hedging activities as its highly complex leveraged structured products backfired badly in the wake of Read More

Reliance Communications: On the Brink of Bankruptcy

Varma, Jayanth R ; Virmani, Vineet

IIMA-FA0560 | Published July 13, 2021 | 15 pages Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

The case describes the change in fortune of Reliance Communications (RCom) from being a pioneer in offering low-cost mobile telephony to the brink of Read More

Northern Textiles Limited (A)

Varma, Jayanth R ; Ghosh, Rahul

IIMA-FA0559(A) | Published October 27, 2020 | 22 pages Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Northern Textiles (NTL) used highly complex derivatives to hedge its currency risk, and these structured products have been profitable in the past. Bu Read More

Prime Broking Default at the National Stock Exchange

Varma, Jayanth R ; Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar

IIMA-FA0555 | Published May 22, 2020 | 20 pages Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

When Prime Broking defaulted on its equity derivative positions at the National Stock Exchange, the central counterparty (CCP) suffered substantial lo Read More