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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.
Legal experts tracking the sector believe that users who have lost their funds can look at the country's consumer protection laws as one recourse
The Noida-based company said the show-cause notice did not have any impact on the financial results of the fourth quarter of the financial year 2024 (Q4 FY24) and Q1 FY25
Hope to deliver at least one profitable quarter this year, says Sharma
WazirX confirmed the security breach on X. The firm has temporarily paused customer withdrawals
The decline in funding comes on the back of reasons such as companies shifting their business models to lending and other sectors due to lower sustainability of the payments business
Fintech players have called for a lower TDS for startups to ease working capital challenges
To be leaders on the AI front, Aggarwal elucidated that the country needs the government and the industry to adopt AI applications
Company says it's committed to 'highest compliance standards' after regulator flags related party transactions with Paytm Payments Bank in FY22
The rise in passenger traffic comes during major holiday months when people travel during the summer season in India
Out of the total loans disbursed, digital lending has increased from 1.8 per cent in financial year 2022 (FY22) to 2.5 per cent in FY24
Issuers live on the platform cater to 80-85% customers
The shareholding of foreign portfolio investors was pegged at 20.5 per cent in Q1FY25, a 0.16 per cent decline from Q4FY24
TCS meets estimates, but macro challenges persist; AI, genAI pipeline doubles
In June, NIPL inked an agreement with the central bank of Peru to develop a UPI-like payment system in the South American country
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had approved Bansal's appointment as the MD and CEO of the payments bank, he communicated on June 20 to IDBI Bank
Use of credit rises with increase in transaction value
When asked if the regulator has been asking them to increase market share, Bansal said the need is to focus on growing the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) ecosystem
Among the non-bank players, MobiKwik had about 134.1 million wallets in January, which rose 2 per cent to 136.8 million in May, ranking the company second in terms of wallet numbers
The Delhi High Court's order includes measures such as suspension of access to domain names operated by unknown entities involved in these scams
We believe that the UPI transaction volume, using one or another form of credit, would be $1 trillion by the end of 2030, she says