Fintech

The Bengaluru-based fintech firm is expected to seek a valuation of ₹50,000-60,000 crore through an IPO that could raise ₹5,000-6,000 crore

The e-commerce company has appointed former leaders from Swiggy, Mastercard and Razorpay to bolster its artificial intelligence, data science, payments and engineering functions

SmartPages enables businesses to generate customised payment pages using simple text prompts, removing the need for coding or design expertise

Paytm to continue hiring through March 2027, expanding teams across product, technology and AI, with recruitment also planned for senior leadership roles

RBI has recognised Sahamati Foundation as the SRO for the Account Aggregator ecosystem, strengthening governance and trust in open finance

Insurance giant LIC is actively considering establishing a fintech arm either through strategic investment or organic way to cater to its growing digital needs, CEO and MD R Doraiswamy said. "Naturally, to meet the modernisation requirement and particularly to bring innovation, we are engaging both fintech and insurtech players and we are getting a lot of new things being developed by such players," Doraiswamy told PTI in an interview. On the other side, he said, "we are a big financial institution investing in multiple organisations and we also look at strategic investments in any specialised player as a way of improving the returns on the policyholders' funds." Talking about Life Insurance Corporation of India's IT journey, he said, it was one of the early adopters of digital technologies. "We have built our own core competence in developing our business applications by building up a software development centre. We have sizable number of people working in our IT department creati

NPCI has called for a regulatory framework for agentic AI in digital payments while expanding AI-driven UPI and voice-payment use cases

Payments Council of India has engaged independent consultants to draft framework to be submitted to RBI

PB Fintech co-founders Yashish Dahiya and Alok Bansal are set to sell shares worth up to Rs 654 crore through a block deal

PhysicsWallah steps deeper into fintech with a ₹120 crore infusion into its NBFC arm FinZ Finance, expanding student-focused lending within its education ecosystem

The fintech and payments industry is preparing a proposal for RBI seeking safe harbour provisions to protect compliant licensed entities from liabilities and retrospective regulatory action

The Bengaluru-based lender turned profitable following its merger with North East Small Finance Bank, with total income more than doubling in FY26

RBI has constituted an expert committee to assess risks and opportunities linked to quantum technology and recommend a roadmap for a quantum-secure financial ecosystem

Cashfree Payments plans to raise over $100 million in FY27 to expand cross-border payments, AI capabilities and global operations ahead of a potential IPO in the coming years

Growing discomfort among banks over eroding interchange income

Bengaluru-based travel fintech startup Scapia will use the fresh capital to scale travel offerings, expand AI capabilities and grow its customer base

Larger platforms like PB Fintech and One97 Communications (Paytm) have closely tracked or slightly underperformed the Nifty 50, displaying far better resilience than sub-scale players

Digital gold and silver platforms have formed a self-regulatory body to improve governance, transparency and consumer protection amid regulatory uncertainty

FIS says GCCs must evolve beyond support roles by building future-ready talent, expanding global leadership and scaling trusted AI adoption

OnEMI Technology IPO comprises a combination of fresh issue of 49.7 million equity shares amounting to ₹850 crore and an OFS of 4.4 million equity shares amounting to ₹75.92 crore