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Margin Lending and Short Selli8 min read
Nepal's Securities Regulator Charts New Course With Landmark Policy Document on Margin Lending and Short Selling
Taken in full, SEBON's concept paper represents something more than a regulatory update. It reflects a recognition that Nepal's capital market, after three decades of incremental progress, needs a qualitative leap to play the role it should in the country's economy. A market that only allows investors to buy and hold is a market that works well in bull conditions and poorly in bear ones. A market with short selling, lending mechanisms, and eventually derivatives is a market that can function across a full economic cycle — one where price discovery is more accurate, where risk can be transferred and hedged, and where institutional capital has reasons to participate actively rather than sitting on the sidelines. Whether Nepal's market gets there smoothly will depend on how well the consultation process works, how strong the final regulations turn out to be, and whether the institutions responsible for enforcement have the capacity and the will to do their jobs. The concept paper is a promising start. The harder work lies ahead.
Dipesh Ghimire31 Jul, 2026
Nepal Rastra Bank5 min read
Nepal Rastra Bank's Balance Sheet Swells to Rs 38.75 Trillion: What the Numbers Really Tell Us
However, strength at the central bank level does not automatically translate into prosperity at the household level. Nepal's economic growth remains modest, private sector credit has been sluggish, and unemployment continues to push hundreds of thousands of young Nepalis abroad each year — the very remittances that are fueling these impressive reserve numbers. The central bank's balance sheet is healthy. The broader economy still has considerable ground to cover.
Dipesh Ghimire31 Jul, 2026
Madan Bhandari Highway3 min read
Unclaimed Deposits at Madan Bhandari Highway Office Point to a Wider Pattern of Contractor Fund Neglect in Nepal's Road Sector
For the 40 firms named, the practical takeaway is straightforward and time-sensitive: verify project completion records and submit refund applications with supporting documents to the Tamghas office before the 15-day deadline lapses. For the broader system, the notice is a small but useful illustration of a structural gap — one where neither delayed government processing nor contractor follow-up failures alone explain the years-long backlog, but where both combine to leave public funds unreturned and unclaimed well past the point they should have been settled.
Dipesh Ghimire30 Jul, 2026
Top2 min read
Shiva Shikhar Cooperative Refunds: A Small But Telling Data Point in Nepal's Slow-Moving Cooperative Recovery
Taken together, the Shiva Shikhar update is best read not as a sign that the cooperative crisis is nearing resolution, but as evidence that Nepal's tiered, recovery-funded restitution model is functioning as designed — slowly, sequentially, and entirely contingent on how much can actually be clawed back from a cooperative that failed its depositors in the first place.
Dipesh Ghimire30 Jul, 2026
Kumari Bank3 min read
Kumari Bank's Promoter Share Sale Highlights a Recurring — and Revealing — Pattern in Nepal's Banking Sector
Ultimately, this transaction is best understood as routine internal reshuffling within Kumari Bank's promoter base, procedurally governed by Nepal Rastra Bank's regulations on ownership transfer, rather than a market-moving event. Its real significance lies less in the 258,209 shares themselves and more in what their sale — and the bank's history of similar sales — suggests about the gradual, ongoing evolution of who actually owns Nepal's banks at the founding-shareholder level, a process that unfolds largely outside public visibility despite these periodic regulatory notices.
Dipesh Ghimire30 Jul, 2026
NEPSE6 min read
NEPSE Tests Crucial Technical Support as Turnover and Investor Confidence Weaken
For now, the market can be described as technically supported but psychologically fragile. The 200 MA has prevented a sharper decline, but buyers will need to demonstrate stronger participation before the market can establish a convincing positive direction.
Dipesh Ghimire29 Jul, 2026
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Response Desk7 min read
Finance Ministry Plans ‘Response Desk’ as Government Pledges Faster Action on Business Barriers
The government’s promises address many of the concerns repeatedly raised by businesses. Their economic effect, however, will depend on implementation. Faster approvals, predictable taxation and legal clarity could improve investor confidence, but another cycle of consultation without institutional follow-through would offer little relief to industries already operating under financial and regulatory pressure.
Dipesh Ghimire29 Jul, 2026
Major Development Projects4 min read
Government Plans Independent Review System for Major Development Projects
Its success, however, will depend less on the wording of the strategy than on the government’s willingness to act on unfavourable findings. Independent evaluation will have little value if reports are not published, responsible agencies face no consequences and delayed projects continue receiving additional budgets without credible justification.
Dipesh Ghimire29 Jul, 2026
Khimti-Ghwang Hydropower3 min read
NMB Bank to Finance Rs 1.24 Billion for 9 MW Khimti-Ghwang Hydropower Project
The project’s progress will now depend on timely disbursement of the bank loan, effective contractor performance, completion of environmental obligations and control of construction costs. With 30 per cent of the work reportedly completed and the major financing agreement signed, the project appears to have addressed several early-stage risks, though completing the remaining work within the announced deadline will require close financial and technical management.
Dipesh Ghimire29 Jul, 2026
nepse 8 min read
NEPSE Slips Below 2,700 as Investors Turn Cautious Near Key Technical Support
Turnover falls to Rs 4.42 billion as the benchmark index struggles to sustain gains above the psychologically important 2,700-point level
Dipesh Ghimire28 Jul, 2026

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Nepal's Securities Regulator Charts New Course With Landmark Policy Document on Margin Lending and Short Selling

Nepal Rastra Bank's Balance Sheet Swells to Rs 38.75 Trillion: What the Numbers Really Tell Us

Unclaimed Deposits at Madan Bhandari Highway Office Point to a Wider Pattern of Contractor Fund Neglect in Nepal's Road Sector

Shiva Shikhar Cooperative Refunds: A Small But Telling Data Point in Nepal's Slow-Moving Cooperative Recovery

Kumari Bank's Promoter Share Sale Highlights a Recurring — and Revealing — Pattern in Nepal's Banking Sector

NEPSE Tests Crucial Technical Support as Turnover and Investor Confidence Weaken

Finance Ministry Plans ‘Response Desk’ as Government Pledges Faster Action on Business Barriers

Government Plans Independent Review System for Major Development Projects

NMB Bank to Finance Rs 1.24 Billion for 9 MW Khimti-Ghwang Hydropower Project

NEPSE Slips Below 2,700 as Investors Turn Cautious Near Key Technical Support

NEPSEtrading

Primary issues

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Read & learn

NEPSE Trading Network

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All Articles — Page 22

Nepal's Securities Regulator Charts New Course With Landmark Policy Document on Margin Lending and Short Selling

Nepal Rastra Bank's Balance Sheet Swells to Rs 38.75 Trillion: What the Numbers Really Tell Us

Unclaimed Deposits at Madan Bhandari Highway Office Point to a Wider Pattern of Contractor Fund Neglect in Nepal's Road Sector

Shiva Shikhar Cooperative Refunds: A Small But Telling Data Point in Nepal's Slow-Moving Cooperative Recovery

Kumari Bank's Promoter Share Sale Highlights a Recurring — and Revealing — Pattern in Nepal's Banking Sector

NEPSE Tests Crucial Technical Support as Turnover and Investor Confidence Weaken

Finance Ministry Plans ‘Response Desk’ as Government Pledges Faster Action on Business Barriers

Government Plans Independent Review System for Major Development Projects

NMB Bank to Finance Rs 1.24 Billion for 9 MW Khimti-Ghwang Hydropower Project

NEPSE Slips Below 2,700 as Investors Turn Cautious Near Key Technical Support