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Ajinkya Kawale is a correspondent with Business Standard, specialising in the emerging fintech industry in India. He has also covered agrarian distress in Maharashtra and political developments during the Lok Sabha election season. He holds a postgraduate degree in multimedia journalism from Christ University in Bengaluru. He is a keen follower of India's infotainment space on YouTube and other OTT platforms, apart from non-fiction and biographies in their printed versions.
Ajinkya Kawale is a correspondent with Business Standard, specialising in the emerging fintech industry in India. He has also covered agrarian distress in Maharashtra and political developments during the Lok Sabha election season. He holds a postgraduate degree in multimedia journalism from Christ University in Bengaluru. He is a keen follower of India's infotainment space on YouTube and other OTT platforms, apart from non-fiction and biographies in their printed versions.
The approval may lead to an increase in company's UPI transaction volumes
P2P platforms enable lenders to earn interest income, though with the risk of delay or default by borrowers
One97 Communications announces consolidated profit of Rs 928.3 crore in Q2
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About 10 per cent of company's revenue comes from government subsidies on digital payments
The ban on sanction and disbursement for its partner DMI Finance would be effective from October 21, as per the RBI directive
The fintech company plans to deepen its reach in underserved markets and improve its technology with the latest capital infusion
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WazirX, which is facing liabilities amounting to $546.5 million, had floated a user poll to measure potential interest in its moratorium application
Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu also said the Mumbai police have arrested a minor responsible for issuing bomb threats targeting three flights
The company said that its cash burn was reduced by 85 per cent on a Y-o-Y basis
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At present, most UPI debit transactions continue to remain free, with payment-processing expenses borne by fintechs and banks
On a quarter-on-quarter basis, funding to the fintech sector more than doubled from $293 million in Q2CY24
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The launch of new features comes as the Bengaluru-based firm looks to expand its suite of financial products for its user base pegged at 14 million
This growth follows the company's announcement in April that it would roll out cashbacks and rewards for customers using its UPI service
This comes after RBI raised risk weights on unsecured personal loans
NMIAL will be the second airport to serve the Mumbai Metropolitan Region and will have a capacity of handling 20 million passengers in the first two phases of operations
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