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Nepal's stock market, listings and the regulator. · 18 stories

• SEBON puts NEPSE overhaul and margin lending at top of reform agenda
• NEPSE inches up 0.18% as SEBON cuts promoter share-sale notice to five trading days
• SEBON's IPO backlog has become a tax on Nepali capital

Banks, mergers and the central bank. · 51 stories

• Nepal GDP grew 4% in Q4 2025/26, but Bhote Koshi floods cloud 2026/27
• Gyanendra Dhungana, the banker who ran Nabil and chased the governorship
• Buddha Air's Birendra Bahadur Basnet bets on rice despite a Rs 25m mill loss

Savings cooperatives, microfinance and informal credit. · 7 stories

• Nepal Bangladesh Bank: the run, the NRB takeover and the Nabil merger
• Prabhu Group's Devi Prakash Bhattachan: from remittances to a bank, and a fraud case still before the court
• Still on the grey list: what FATF scrutiny means for Nepal's banks and remitters

The money Nepalis send home, and the migration behind it. · 10 stories

• A dispute over 25 recruiters puts Malaysia, a top job market for Nepalis, at risk
• Nepal's Social Security Fund passes 3m contributors, most of them working abroad
• Nepal cannot keep exporting its young people as its main growth strategy

Dams, power trade and the grid. · 24 stories

• Huawei tells Nepal's internet providers to sell AI computing, not just bandwidth
• Nepal GDP grew 4% in Q4 2025/26, but Bhote Koshi floods cloud 2026/27
• Nepal's nominees for India and China pitch an economic agenda to lawmakers

The families and founders who own Nepali business. · 4 stories

• Ang Tshering Sherpa built the Yeti group from a trekking kitchen. His heirs inherited its hardest tests
• Binod Chaudhary, Nepal's only billionaire, a year after the fire
• Upendra Mahato's road from Siraha to Moscow and back

Investigations, arrests and court cases involving business. · 17 stories

• Sudurpashchim tables Rs 37.7bn budget as Supreme Court refuses interim order
• Nepal Bangladesh Bank: the run, the NRB takeover and the Nabil merger
• Five years after the flood, Kathmandu's Melamchi water still runs on a temporary intake

Public finance, tax and spending. · 28 stories

• Nepal GDP grew 4% in Q4 2025/26, but Bhote Koshi floods cloud 2026/27
• Why a Kathmandu-Dhangadhi flight costs more than a flight to Delhi
• Sudurpaschim budget stalls again as ruling coalition turns on its own plan

Imports, exports and Nepal's borders. · 46 stories

• Nepal GDP grew 4% in Q4 2025/26, but Bhote Koshi floods cloud 2026/27
• Nepal floods choke Dashain goat supply as Kathmandu meat prices climb
• Beni-Jomsom road reopens as late-monsoon rain batters Nepal's paddy and sugarcane

Visitors, hotels, airlines and mountains. · 14 stories

• Why a Kathmandu-Dhangadhi flight costs more than a flight to Delhi
• Nepal's nominees for India and China pitch an economic agenda to lawmakers
• Cosmic Air Nepal: how the first private jet airline rose and fell

Technology companies and digital money. · 6 stories

• Nepal has 30m mobile banking users but only about 335,000 credit cards
• Nepal's ATMs and card machines lose ground as QR payments reach 72m a month
• Rajendra Khetan sold the beer and bought the payments rails

The 2025 uprising and its economic aftermath. · 8 stories

• Kailash Sirohiya's Kantipur survived an arrest and a fire. Its business model is the harder test
• One year after the uprising, insurers have paid less than two-fifths of claims
• Tourism recovers from the uprising as China returns and Manaslu snows shut

Festival spending and the consumer economy. · 8 stories

• Why a Kathmandu-Dhangadhi flight costs more than a flight to Delhi
• Nepal floods choke Dashain goat supply as Kathmandu meat prices climb
• NEPSE inches up 0.18% as SEBON cuts promoter share-sale notice to five trading days