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Monetary Policy4 min read
Monetary Policy Boosts Market Confidence, but Sustainability of Nepal’s Stock Market Recovery Remains to Be Tested
For investors, the new monetary policy has provided a positive signal, but caution remains necessary. The coming months will reveal whether the current market improvement represents the beginning of a stronger recovery cycle or merely a short-term reaction to policy optimism.
Dipesh Ghimire8 Jul, 2026
EV 3 min read
Electric Mobility Could Save Billions in Fuel Costs, But Structural Limits Remain, Study Suggests
Still, policymakers view electric mobility as a key long-term strategy for reducing Nepal’s dependency on imported fossil fuels, improving energy security, and meeting climate commitments. The current discussion underscores both the scale of opportunity and the complexity of implementation.
Dipesh Ghimire6 Jul, 2026
Monetary Policy3 min read
Private Sector Pushes for Bold Monetary Policy Reform as Economy Faces Demand Slowdown
Monetary Policy The discussions reflect growing pressure from both private sector and financial experts for a more flexible, demand-driven, and structurally reform-oriented monetary policy at a time when Nepal’s economy is facing weak credit growth, rising bad loans, and subdued investment sentiment.
Dipesh Ghimire6 Jul, 2026
Former Governors2 min read
Former Governors Warn Against Political Interference in Nepal Rastra Bank, Stress Central Bank Autonomy
Economists say the discussion reflects a broader policy tension in Nepal’s financial governance — between maintaining institutional independence and responding to government-led development priorities.
Dipesh Ghimire6 Jul, 2026
manoj gyawali3 min read
Priority Sector Lending Under Question as Bank CEO Calls for Major Policy Review
His comments come at a time when Nepal’s monetary authorities are preparing a revised policy framework aimed at balancing credit expansion with financial stability, while the banking sector continues to raise concerns over regulatory rigidity and rising credit risk.
Dipesh Ghimire6 Jul, 2026
Asian Batteries IPO2 min read
Asian Batteries Expands Capacity with Rs 530 Million VRLA Plant as Revenue Surges and IPO Awaits Approval
If approved, the IPO will mark a new phase in the company’s growth journey, allowing public investors to participate at a time when the company is expanding capacity and strengthening its financial foundation.
Dipesh Ghimire6 Jul, 2026
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Capital Market4 min read
Capital Market Fails to Share Government’s 100-Day Optimism
For now, the message from investors is clear: the market is waiting not for more promises, but for decisions that can restore trust.
Dipesh Ghimire6 Jul, 2026
Swarnim Wagle7 min read
Nepal Moves to Create Powerful Economic Crime Authority, Passes Anti-Money Laundering Bill
The risks are equally real. Concentrating this much investigative power in a single institution creates a correspondingly powerful instrument that would require robust checks against the exact political weaponisation that Wagle herself described as the pre-existing problem. The challenge for Nepal's policymakers is to design an institution that is powerful enough to be effective against sophisticated financial crime while being structurally insulated from the political pressures that corrupted its predecessors. Whether the government's institutional design proposals will meet that challenge is a question that Thursday's parliamentary session raised without fully answering — and one that will define the credibility of Nepal's second-generation financial reform agenda in the months ahead.
Dipesh Ghimire4 Jul, 2026
Nepal's Finance Minister 5 min read
Nepal's Finance Minister at 100 Days: Legal Reforms Underway, But the Economy Isn't Feeling It Yet
Whether that formal will translates into the kind of genuine institutional change that FATF assessors will find convincing — and whether the broader economic reform agenda produces results that Nepali citizens will find convincing — are the twin tests that Finance Minister Wagle now faces as her hundred-day honeymoon period formally ends and the harder work of accountability begins.
Dipesh Ghimire4 Jul, 2026
Monetary Policy Review6 min read
Nepal's Top Business Body Calls for Structural Banking Overhaul, Warns Rate Cuts Alone Cannot Revive Economy
This is a higher and more demanding standard than central banks typically accept for their own performance. But it is the standard that the productive economy requires. The question now is whether Nepal Rastra Bank's upcoming monetary policy will engage with the structural arguments the federation has raised — or whether it will once again reach for the familiar instrument of rate adjustment and hope that this time the result will be different.
Dipesh Ghimire4 Jul, 2026

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Monetary Policy Boosts Market Confidence, but Sustainability of Nepal’s Stock Market Recovery Remains to Be Tested

Electric Mobility Could Save Billions in Fuel Costs, But Structural Limits Remain, Study Suggests

Private Sector Pushes for Bold Monetary Policy Reform as Economy Faces Demand Slowdown

Former Governors Warn Against Political Interference in Nepal Rastra Bank, Stress Central Bank Autonomy

Priority Sector Lending Under Question as Bank CEO Calls for Major Policy Review

Asian Batteries Expands Capacity with Rs 530 Million VRLA Plant as Revenue Surges and IPO Awaits Approval

Capital Market Fails to Share Government’s 100-Day Optimism

Nepal Moves to Create Powerful Economic Crime Authority, Passes Anti-Money Laundering Bill

Nepal's Finance Minister at 100 Days: Legal Reforms Underway, But the Economy Isn't Feeling It Yet

Nepal's Top Business Body Calls for Structural Banking Overhaul, Warns Rate Cuts Alone Cannot Revive Economy

NEPSEtrading

Primary issues

Income & debt

Live market

Read & learn

NEPSE Trading Network

Insights & Analysis

All Articles — Page 20

Monetary Policy Boosts Market Confidence, but Sustainability of Nepal’s Stock Market Recovery Remains to Be Tested

Electric Mobility Could Save Billions in Fuel Costs, But Structural Limits Remain, Study Suggests

Private Sector Pushes for Bold Monetary Policy Reform as Economy Faces Demand Slowdown

Former Governors Warn Against Political Interference in Nepal Rastra Bank, Stress Central Bank Autonomy

Priority Sector Lending Under Question as Bank CEO Calls for Major Policy Review

Asian Batteries Expands Capacity with Rs 530 Million VRLA Plant as Revenue Surges and IPO Awaits Approval

Capital Market Fails to Share Government’s 100-Day Optimism

Nepal Moves to Create Powerful Economic Crime Authority, Passes Anti-Money Laundering Bill

Nepal's Finance Minister at 100 Days: Legal Reforms Underway, But the Economy Isn't Feeling It Yet

Nepal's Top Business Body Calls for Structural Banking Overhaul, Warns Rate Cuts Alone Cannot Revive Economy