Padmakumar Kochunarayana Pillai

Northern Arc Capital Ltd. is a holding company, which engages in non-banking finance business. The firm provides liquidity and develops access to debt-capital markets for institutions that impact financially excluded households and enterprises. It operates through the following segments: Financing Activity, Investment Advisory Services, Investment Management Services, and Portfolio Management Services. The company was founded on March 9, 1989 and is headquartered in Chennai, India.

Dvara Trust engages in the business of providing access to financial services to the underserved population. The firm is a private trust whose mission is to ensure that every individual and every enterprise has complete access to financial services. It operates through IFMR Holdings, IFMR Capital, IFMR Rural Finance, IFMR Rural Channels and IFMR Investments. The company was founded on October 19, 2006 and is headquartered in Chennai, India.

Nse Investments Ltd. provides investment services. The private company is based in Mumbai, India. The CEO of the Indian company is Jagannathan Ravichandran.

Institute of Company Secretaries of India operates as a recognized professional body in India to develop and regulate the profession of Company Secretaries in India.

Varam Capital Pvt Ltd. provides financial services. The company is headquartered in Chennai, India.

Northern Arc Investments is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of Northern Arc Capital Finance Pvt Ltd. Founded in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Chennai.

Northern Arc Capital Finance Pvt Ltd. provides financial services. It offer small business loans, affordable housing finance, vehicle finance, agriculture finance, microfinance, underwriting framework, structured finance, risk management, and capital markets. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Chennai, India.

NCDEX Institute of Commodity Markets & Research (NICR) is a 100 per cent subsidiary of the National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX). NICR has been incorporated under Section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956 (No. 1 of 1956), on the 18th of September 2007, making it a not-for-profit company. NCDEX, which has emerged as a leading commodity exchange in the country, has promoted NICR, a not for profit institute, to meet this research gap. NCDEX is a professionally managed company and has been promoted by public and private sector institutions of global repute. The vision is to make NICR recognized nationally as an independent, credible academic and research institute of eminence. NICR is dedicated to promoting research and awareness in commodity markets. It derives its credibility and strength from its parent organization NCDEX, one of India's leading commodity exchanges. Since the establishment of national commodity exchanges in 2003, the commodity futures market has witnessed phenomenal growth with traded volumes crossing 77,000 billion in 2009-10. However, commodity derivatives have not yet achieved their full potential for a number of infrastructure and awareness related issues. Lack of a network of well spread spot markets, availability of research material, and intelligence on market trends on various commodities are limiting factors, resulting in poor understanding of the dynamics of the commodity markets. Like any other emerging area, there is dearth of independent, credible and easily accessible research material on the subject in India. It is to fill this knowledge and information gap that NICR was set up.