Mid-market debt advisory is not a transaction. It is a discipline — knowing which PSU bank will fund a manufacturing capex, which private bank prices working capital aggressively, which NBFC will move on a short fuse, and which AIF makes sense when banks won't. These pieces unpack the practical structuring questions promoters and CFOs face when raising capital: how to position a mandate, what banks really look at beyond the CMA, when to use a syndicate versus a single lender, and where the new instruments — sustainability-linked debt, Cat-II AIF tranches, ECB windows — actually fit. Written from the perspective of a desk that has closed mandates across PSU banks, private banks, NBFCs and AIFs since 2011.
A Virtual CFO gives Indian SMEs senior finance leadership without the full-time cost. Here is when a VCFO makes sense, what they actually do, and what realistic engagement terms look like in 2026.
Project finance is not one product. Greenfield and brownfield projects demand different debt mixes, covenants and equity tolerance. Here is how Indian sponsors should structure each.
A bid bond is the small instrument that decides whether you are in the tender or not. Here is how Indian contractors are using Insurance Surety Bonds as bid security to bid wider, smarter and without blocking margin money.
Indian contractors have quietly been burning non-fund limits on bank guarantees for decades. The Insurance Surety Bond changes that equation. Here is how the two instruments actually compare in 2026.