George Mathew is an Associate Editor with The Indian Express, based in Mumbai. A veteran of financial journalism with nearly three decades of experience, he is one of the country’s most authoritative voices on banking, regulation, and the corporate sector.
Expertise & Focus Areas Mathew’s reporting covers the nerve center of India’s economy. His specialized beats include:
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI): He has tracked the central bank's policy evolution through the tenures of multiple Governors, offering deep insights into monetary policy, repo rates, and banking regulation.
Banking & Insurance: Extensive coverage of public and private sector banks, non-performing assets (NPAs), and key legislative reforms like the Insurance Amendment Bills.
Corporate Affairs: Mathew frequently breaks major stories related to India's largest conglomerates, with a specific focus on the Tata Group, documenting boardroom shifts and strategic decisions.
Financial Markets: Reporting on the complexities of Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs), IPOs, and currency fluctuations.
Authoritativeness & Insight With a career dating back to the late 1990s, Mathew possesses a rare institutional memory of India’s financial liberalization and market crises. His work is not limited to daily news; he frequently contributes to the "Explained" section, where he decodes complex financial legislations and market trends for a broader audience. His rigorous reporting has also been featured in scholarly platforms like the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW).
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December 10, 2002 00:00 IST
Fame. Money. Ambition. The Mafatlals once had it all. Today, the clack of looms and the hiss of steam in the life of Arvind Mafatlal has giv...
Tue, Dec 10, 2002
December 08, 2002 00:00 IST
The purse-strings are being loosened slowly. Foreign travellers and investors never had it so good. Though travellers and foreign funds stil...
Sun, Dec 08, 2002
November 27, 2002 00:00 IST
Demands for yet another bailout in the loss-making steel sector have started coming in again. Rating agency Crisil (Credit Rating Informatio...
Wed, Nov 27, 2002
October 20, 2002 00:00 IST
Shareholders who’ve been waiting for the A.V. Birla Group to make a lucrative ‘open offer’ for buying Larsen & Toubro shares ...
Sun, Oct 20, 2002
October 05, 2002 00:00 IST
State governments in financial mess are set to find going tougher with massive devolvements of Rs 5,400 crore likely to fall on them in this...
Sat, Oct 05, 2002
September 29, 2002 00:00 IST
The never-ending saga of defaults continue to worry investors with more companies joining the list and the amount stuck in them rising to ne...
Sun, Sep 29, 2002
September 22, 2002 00:00 IST
The big bulls have become silent. After a ‘scintillating’ performance last year, the power and presence of foreign institutional i...
Sun, Sep 22, 2002
September 19, 2002 00:00 IST
India Inc is not lagging behind in producing financial statements with gaping holes. The auditors of Ispat Industries, belonging to the Mitt...
Thu, Sep 19, 2002
September 15, 2002 00:00 IST
September 7, was a cruel day for thousands of investors who put their faith in government stocks. When everything appeared to be going in th...
Sun, Sep 15, 2002
August 19, 2002 00:00 IST
The book building model which was introduced with much fanfare three years ago seems to have given a raw deal to investors. Nearly 17 out 20...
Mon, Aug 19, 2002
July 28, 2002 00:00 IST
For investors, medium-level stocks may be beautiful now. While small can be dangerous, big ones are languishing, If you’re looking at t...
Sun, Jul 28, 2002
July 15, 2002 00:00 IST
Despite a host of recovery measures and settlement schemes, commercial banks were unable to make any significant progress in recovering stic...
Mon, Jul 15, 2002
July 14, 2002 00:00 IST
B. Maheshwari had bought 1,000 shares of Shipping Corporation at a cost of Rs 20 per share a few months ago. Now the price has gone up to Rs...
Sun, Jul 14, 2002
June 23, 2002 00:00 IST
The next time you hear CEOs say they had a bad year because there are no consumers out there, tell them to look within.For, at a time when, ...
Sun, Jun 23, 2002
June 09, 2002 00:00 IST
When the war hysteria was at its peak in May and the stock markets dipped to the year’s low, Pramod Shah, a small investor in Mumbai, b...
Sun, Jun 09, 2002
May 26, 2002 00:00 IST
If investors think that private mutual funds have done a great job in the Indian market, it may be a wrong conclusion. Net asset values of a...
Sun, May 26, 2002
May 23, 2002 00:00 IST
With S&P threatening another downgrade in the event of an Indo-Pak war, and the markets falling close to 8 per cent since May 13, gloom and ...
Thu, May 23, 2002
May 14, 2002 00:00 IST
The government securities scam—which is now growing and taking more toll— could have been avoided had the regulators stopped physi...
Tue, May 14, 2002
May 12, 2002 00:00 IST
The Government-Securities (GSec) scam that’s cost the Nagpur District Central Co-operative Bank Rs 150 crore already, is currently esti...
Sun, May 12, 2002
May 09, 2002 00:00 IST
The Unit Trust of India (UTI) is not behind commercial banks in creating sticky assets. The UTI had to provide over Rs 5,100 crore under 34 ...
Thu, May 09, 2002
February 01, 2001 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, JAN 31: The number of defaults and roll-overs by Indian companies is rising, creating nervousness and disillusionment among invest...
Thu, Feb 01, 2001
January 08, 2001 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, JAN 7: Believe it or not, only five stocks in the Sensex list have posted positive returns while 25 stocks in the fancied index ha...
Mon, Jan 08, 2001
January 07, 2001 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, JAN 6: Believe it or not, only five stocks in the Sensex list have posted positive returns while 25 stocks in the fancied index ha...
Sun, Jan 07, 2001
December 09, 2000 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, DEC 7: The much-hyped merger and takeover deals in the infotech sector have started revealing their true colours. With infotech st...
Sat, Dec 09, 2000



