2026 – Fingineer

Freezing Before Judging: Asset Preservation, Due Process, and Market Trust

Financial Literacy SEBI

Freezing Before Judging: Asset Preservation, Due Process, and Market Trust

By Awanish Kumar Mishra February 13, 2026

When the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) freezes bank accounts or attaches assets, it is not merely issuing a procedural order. It…

Retail Losses in Indian Derivatives: How Exploding Volumes, Not STT, Drove the Crisis

Financial Literacy STT

Retail Losses in Indian Derivatives: How Exploding Volumes, Not STT, Drove the Crisis

By Awanish Kumar Mishra February 4, 2026

Retail losses in India’s derivatives market have reached crisis proportions—but not for the reasons most people assume. An examination of two decades of data…

Tariffs, Tweets, and Turbulence: Mapping Trump’s Words to Dalal Street Moves

Financial Literacy Market Outlook

Tariffs, Tweets, and Turbulence: Mapping Trump’s Words to Dalal Street Moves

By Awanish Kumar Mishra January 10, 2026

Indian equities have always lived with “global risk-on/risk-off” swings, but the last six months have underlined a sharper reality: single-source political communication—especially Donald Trump’s…

Awanish Kumar Mishra
Delhi University, IIM Alumni
Founder, Center for Financial Inclusion and Planning

Mr. Awanish Kumar Mishra straddles the domains of media, finance, academics, policy making, and digital transformation.

An alumnus of reputed institutions like the Ramjas College (Delhi University), the Indian Institute of Management (Indore), the Xavier Institute of Communications (Mumbai), the Indian Institute of Capital Market (Navi Mumbai), and the National Institute of Securities Market (Navi Mumbai), Mr. Mishra is a public intellectual of repute.

After quitting UTI Mutual Fund in 2003, Mishra worked with several major media houses, including Dainik Bhaskar (Resident Editor-Delhi NCR), Dainik Jagran (Corporate Editor) and Amar Ujala(Economic Editor). Later, he founded a personal finance magazine, Money Mantra, which he edited till July 2013.

Currently, Mr. Mishra is working on a project, ‘Risk Mitigation Mechanism in Financial Market.’ The project strives to protect small investors from scams and promote fair play.

For Mr. Mishra, subjects like financial inclusion and financial planning are not just academic matters but also a passion. He wants to enliven www.natfin.org with his enthusiasm and knowledge.

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