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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.
Paytm may be absent from the meeting
The regulator amended guidelines for prepaid payment instruments for mass transit systems (PPI-MTS). It said such PPIs can be issued without Know Your Customer (KYC) verification of the holders
NPCI asked to help Paytm app continue operations
The Bengaluru-based fintech firm marked its foray into the marketing and growth solutions space as it launched Engage; a full-stack marketing growth suite
NPCI chief Dilip Asbe explained that Indian fintech companies will have to take the lead to explain the country's payment standards to the world before exporting them globally
Similarly, the value of loans has increased from Rs 5,907 crore to Rs 40,845 crore during the same time
Fintech giant is planning to apply for third-party application provider licence
The company is moving swiftly to finalise these partnerships after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) extended the deadline for restrictions on deposit and credit transactions of Paytm PB to March 15
Nigam was in conversation with Shradha Sharma, founder and CEO, YourStory at the Mumbai Tech Week 2024
Says have received two proposals for semiconductor fab units, entailing $22 bn investment
The company also enabled payment options within the chats from different platforms apart from its own. These platforms include UPI apps, debit and credit cards, among others
Players such as Google Pay, PhonePe, and even banks like HDFC and State Bank of India (SBI) are said to be deploying several thousand 'feet on the street' or salesforce to attract merchants
It can break barriers to information accessibility, says Google V-P Sanjay Gupta
Merchants can accept payment if account linked to other banks
According to industry sources, Airtel Payments Bank has placed 5x to 7x more orders for FASTags than they would place in a normal order
Paytm QR, soundbox, card machine will continue to work as always, said One97 Communications
The RBI has clarified that business credit cards will continue to function as usual
The Mumbai-based company saw a 67 per cent year-on-year increase in its gross revenue from Rs 96 crore in Q3 FY23 to Rs 160 crore in Q3 FY24
Banking regulator issue directions to card networks, fintechs to put on hold all commercial card-based transactions made by firms
Macquarie sharply cut the target price to Rs 275 from Rs 650, driven by a reduction in revenues across various segments