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Commercial Banks7 min read
Four Commercial Banks Line Up Rs 14 Billion in Debenture Issuances, Signaling a Shift in How Nepal's Banks Fund Themselves
All applications are pending final SEBON approval, and the actual issuance timelines will depend on how quickly the review processes conclude. But the direction is clear. Nepal's banking sector is increasingly viewing the capital market not just as a place to list shares, but as a genuine funding channel — and that evolution, if it continues, will benefit both the banks that issue and the investors who subscribe.
Dipesh Ghimire3 Aug, 2026
Nepal Airlines8 min read
Nepal Airlines and the Weight of Its Own History: Can One Good Month Change Everything?
The honest position is that Nepal Airlines is in a better place today than it was a year ago, and the people now leading it appear more capable of sustaining that improvement than previous leadership teams. Whether that is enough to overcome thirty years of accumulated institutional dysfunction — the debt, the fleet, the workforce, the political dependencies — in thirty-six months is a genuinely open question. The corporation deserves credit for the improvement it has achieved. It also deserves scrutiny proportional to the public resources it consumes and the strategic importance of a functioning national carrier to Nepal's economy and connectivity.
Dipesh Ghimire3 Aug, 2026
Nepal Oil7 min read
Nepal Oil Corporation Raises Fuel Prices Again: A Decision That Solves Nothing and Hurts Everyone
The one-minute-past-midnight implementation time is a small detail that reveals something larger. Price revisions that take effect at the least visible moment of the day are not designed to invite scrutiny. They are designed to arrive and be accepted. This one should be accepted — but it should also be understood for what it is: a partial response to a structural problem that Nepal's petroleum pricing system has never been built to solve.
Dipesh Ghimire3 Aug, 2026
SAPDBL 9 min read
Saptakoshi Development Bank: A Turnaround Written in Quiet Numbers
These figures are unaudited and subject to revision following the final audit. But the story they tell is already clear enough to read. Saptakoshi Development Bank is no longer the institution it was two years ago. Whether it becomes the institution its shareholders are waiting for depends entirely on what it does next.
Dipesh Ghimire2 Aug, 2026
Sana Kisan Bikas Laghubitta8 min read
Sana Kisan Bikas Laghubitta: When the Numbers Tell Two Different Stories at Once
These figures are unaudited and may see minor revisions after the final audit. The broad picture, however, is already clear: a strong institution having a difficult year, with its foundations intact and its recovery dependent on forces that are partly within its control and partly not.
Dipesh Ghimire2 Aug, 2026
Sahas Urja 5 min read
Sahas Urja Posts Record Profit as Debt Falls and Power Sales Climb
The unaudited nature of these figures means minor revisions remain possible after the final audit. But the broad direction is clear. Sahas Urja is in a stronger financial position today than it was a year ago, and if debt reduction continues at this pace, the years ahead could prove even more rewarding — provided the Budhigandaki ambition is managed with the same discipline that has characterized the company's core operations thus far.
Dipesh Ghimire2 Aug, 2026
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NEPSE6 min read
NEPSE Snaps Four-Day Losing Streak on Friday, but Technical Picture Stays Murky
Even so, analysts urge caution in over-interpreting any single session's data. The combination of a failed 200 MA breakout, an ADX that has not confirmed any change in trend direction, promoter-driven volume in the banking sector, and five consecutive candles without a Higher High paints a picture of a market that has paused its decline rather than reversed it. The critical test, as the coming week opens, will be whether NEPSE can find the sustained buying interest needed to push decisively above the 200 MA — and hold it. Until that happens, the technical verdict remains the same: the path of least resistance still points downward.
Dipesh Ghimire31 Jul, 2026
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

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All Articles — Page 9

Four Commercial Banks Line Up Rs 14 Billion in Debenture Issuances, Signaling a Shift in How Nepal's Banks Fund Themselves

Nepal Airlines and the Weight of Its Own History: Can One Good Month Change Everything?

Nepal Oil Corporation Raises Fuel Prices Again: A Decision That Solves Nothing and Hurts Everyone

Saptakoshi Development Bank: A Turnaround Written in Quiet Numbers

Sana Kisan Bikas Laghubitta: When the Numbers Tell Two Different Stories at Once

Sahas Urja Posts Record Profit as Debt Falls and Power Sales Climb

NEPSE Snaps Four-Day Losing Streak on Friday, but Technical Picture Stays Murky

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

NEPSEtrading

Primary issues

Income & debt

Live market

Read & learn

NEPSE Trading Network

Insights & Analysis

All Articles — Page 9

Four Commercial Banks Line Up Rs 14 Billion in Debenture Issuances, Signaling a Shift in How Nepal's Banks Fund Themselves

Nepal Airlines and the Weight of Its Own History: Can One Good Month Change Everything?

Nepal Oil Corporation Raises Fuel Prices Again: A Decision That Solves Nothing and Hurts Everyone

Saptakoshi Development Bank: A Turnaround Written in Quiet Numbers

Sana Kisan Bikas Laghubitta: When the Numbers Tell Two Different Stories at Once

Sahas Urja Posts Record Profit as Debt Falls and Power Sales Climb

NEPSE Snaps Four-Day Losing Streak on Friday, but Technical Picture Stays Murky

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