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Allow gaming cos perform legitimate transactions: Meity to banks, fintechs

MeitY has told banks and fintechs to process refunds, vendor payments and GST filings for gaming companies, while ensuring smooth user transition after the real-money gaming ban

Bank-AI collab improves pricing, risk models: Philadelphia Fed's Jagtiani

Bank-fintech collaborations are allowing for more proper pricing and risk underwriting, said Julapa Jagtiani, Senior Economic Advisor and Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, on Thursday. Jagtiani was addressing a webinar on "Beyond Intuition: AI, Crypto, and Social Algorithms Shaping the Future of Finance", organised by Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) Centre for Software and IT Management (CSITM). "When banks team up with vendors of AI solutions, we see more correct pricing of non-prime borrowers. Rather than pricing all as equally risky, AI differentiates who will default and who will not," said Jagtiani. The webinar was attended by more than 170 participants and included pre-eminent finance professionals from the United States, United Kingdom, and India. Apart from Jagtiani, the panel comprised Evelyn de Rothschild, Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School, Marina Niessner, Assistant Professor of Finance at Indiana University's ..

Banks fund India's digital payments while fintechs reap the revenue

UPI cost burden reaches Rs 8,500 crore annually as third-party apps dominate customer engagement

Credgenics acquires Arrise to build full-stack collections platform

Arrise was founded in 2019. It has a presence across more than 25 states through a network of over 5,000 professionals. It provides calling services in more than 13 languages

BharatPe to raise funds before IPO, listing not on card in FY26: CEO

BharatPe will raise funds before the initial public offer, but the listing will take place only when market conditions are favourable, a top official of the unicorn fintech firm said. BharatPe, last week, announced that it had achieved operational profitability after excluding the employee stock ownership plan. "Whatever goals we set for ourselves, we have gone ahead and achieved them...profitability has to remain intact, and thereafter, once the market conditions are right, we will definitely go for an IPO. There will be a pre-IPO funding round, while an IPO is not on the cards for this financial year. Anything beyond that is a fair game, once the market conditions are right," BharatPe CEO Nalin Negi told PTI. The company closed FY25 with a Rs 6 crore adjusted profit before tax (excluding ESOP expense), recovering strongly from a loss of Rs 342 crore in FY24. "We have always believed that demonstrating consistent performance is key to building investor confidence ahead of a potent

One MobiKwik Q1 loss widens to ₹42 cr as revenue falls 20.7% to ₹271 cr

Fintech firm One MobiKwik Systems has reported its consolidated loss widening to Rs 41.9 crore in the June quarter, compared to a loss of Rs 6.6 crore in the same period last year. The Gurgaon-headquartered firm's revenue from operations stood at Rs 271.3 crore, a 20.7 per cent decline from Rs 342.2 crore in Q1 FY25, as per a regulatory filing. Seen sequentially, losses narrowed from Rs 56 crore in Q4 FY25, while revenue saw an uptick of 1.3 per cent. Total expenses were at Rs 312.8 crore during the first quarter of FY26, compared with Rs 343.6 crore in the same period last year. Payment gateway costs grew to Rs 142.8 crore, up from Rs 127.6 crore, while employee benefit expenses stood at Rs 41.9 crore, reflecting a modest increase from Rs 39.1 crore in the year-ago quarter. The company, which concluded its IPO during the quarter ended December 31, 2024, stated that it has utilised Rs 214 crore of its net IPO funds as of June 30, 2025, out of a total corpus of Rs 530.5 crore. The

"AI professionals' salaries going crazy"

In this Manager’s Mantra episode, Bruce Keith shares his experience on evolution of investment management with AI - New age investors, new trends, biggest innovations and jobs in the fintech space.

EximPe secures in-principle nod for cross-border payment aggregator licence

EximPe gains RBI's in-principle approval for a cross-border payment aggregator licence, plans to expand 10x by FY26 and enhance services for SMEs and B2B trade in Asia

Fintech firm Cashfree Payments plans to add 100 lenders for VKYC by FY26

Cashfree Payments aims to scale its AI-based Video KYC solution to 100 lenders by FY26, targeting RBI-regulated entities to improve conversion rates and reduce wait times

DFS Secretary urges fintechs to drive offline payments, boost inclusion

DFS Secretary M Nagaraju on Monday urged fintechs to focus on driving offline payment solutions to enhance financial inclusions. "I would like to request fintechs to focus their attention on payment solutions for offline payment," Nagaraju said at the CII Summit on Financial Inclusion and FinTech. He highlighted that financial inclusion is increasingly recognised as a major factor in economic growth and poverty alleviation on a global scale. He pointed out that seven of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) are directly connected to financial inclusion. This suggests the importance of improving access to financial services for the unbanked and under-served populations, he said. To illustrate progress made in India, he recalled data from before 2014, when only about 35 per cent of adults in India had access to a bank account, as estimated by the Global Findex Database. In response to this situation, the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) was launched in

India's fintech sector ranks 3rd globally in H1 2025 funding round: Tracxn

Bengaluru-led funding activity in India with overall startups raising $889 million, down 26% from H2 2024, shows Tracxn fintech report

India's fintech funding dips to $889 mn in H1 2025: Tracxn report

Indian fintech sector raised USD 889 million in the first six months of 2025, a drop of 26 per cent from USD 1.2 billion of H2 2024 and a five per cent slide from USD 936 million seen a year ago, according to a report by market intelligence platform Tracxn. As per the report, India ranked third globally, trailing only the United States and the United Kingdom. "While the Indian fintech sector has seen a temporary dip in funding, the steady momentum in early-stage investments and growing acquisition activity indicate that investor interest remains strong, particularly in scalable, innovation-led models," Neha Singh, Co-Founder of Tracxn, said. Bengaluru's dominance and the continued emergence of breakout companies reinforce India's position as a global fintech powerhouse, Singh added. Funding trends across stages in H1 2025 revealed a nuanced landscape for India's fintech sector as early-stage funding fared better than seed-stage and late-stage infusions. Seed-stage startups raised

Finance lobby groups will need to make cultural shift as they become SROs

A related concern is what if other financial sector regulators were also to latch on to the SRO idea? How does coordination happen between them in the case of financial conglomerates?

PB Fintech sells over 1% stake for ₹920 cr via open market transactions

PB Fintech's co-founders Yashish Dahiya and Alok Bansal divested a little over 1 per cent stake in the company for Rs 920 crore through open market transactions. PB Fintech's chief executive Dahiya and Vice Chairman Bansal sold a total of 50.50 lakh shares or 1.09 per cent stake in the company. PB Fintech is the parent of insurtech platform Policybazaar and fintech platform Paisabazar. According to the block deal data on the NSE, Ashish Dahiya offloaded a total of 34 lakh shares in two tranches, amounting to a 0.74 per cent stake in PB Fintech. In addition, Alok Bansal sold 16.50 lakh shares or 0.36 per cent holding in Gurugram-based PB Fintech, as per the data. The combined transaction was valued at around Rs 919.86 crore, executed at an average price of Rs 1,821.50 apiece. After the stake sale, Dahiya's holding in PB Fintech declined to 3.57 per cent from 4.31 per cent, and Bansal's stake fell to 1.04 per cent from 1.40 per cent. Meanwhile, the shares were picked up by a domes

PhonePe eyes $1.5 billion IPO, draft papers likely by early August

Kotak Mahindra Capital, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley have been enlisted to manage PhonePe's IPO

Nirmala Sitharaman ask fintechs to find solutions to prevent cyberfrauds

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday asked fintech startups to come out with solutions to deal with the rising incidence of digital arrests, cheating by fly-by-night operators, and other kinds of cyberfrauds. Lauding the success of fintechs, the Finance Minister said they have helped in speeding up financial inclusion, and taking the payment system to even the far-flung areas of the country. Speaking at the Digital Payments Awards 2025 Ceremony here, Sitharaman said it is important to ensure that startup companies come up with solutions so that people are not arrested at home digitally, or fly by night operators don't take away their money. Another major threat, she pointed out, is 'deep fake', which is causing a lot of damage to the public in large. "Today, we should take care of addressing them so we need a set of fintech companies which are constantly working to give solutions for the newer challenges which are arising," Sitharaman said. She also called upon the fin

Paytm stock crashes 10%, sharpest intra-day fall in 16 months; here's why

The Finance Ministry on Wednesday rejected reports suggesting that a fee would be imposed on UPI transactions, calling them "completely false, baseless, and misleading".

Cred's valuation slump signals caution for India's fintech companies

The sharp markdown despite backing from existing investors reflects growing investor caution and a broader recalibration in the Indian fintech and credit-led ecosystem

Fintech major PhonePe appoints new board member as it prepares for IPO

PhonePe is the largest player on India's real-time payments system Unified Payments Interface (UPI). It reversed its listing from Singapore to India in 2022

Bengaluru-based Stable Money secures $20 million in series B funding

The Bengaluru-based company secured the latest round of funding from Nandan Nilekani's Fundamentum Partnership, Aditya Birla Ventures and participation from all the existing investors