Tagged: india

January 24, 2022 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

M2P Fintech, which claims to be one of Asia’s leading financial Infrastructure firms, has announced a $56 million Series C1 raise that was led by New York-headquartered global private equity and VC firm Insight Partners M2P Fintech further revealed that their investment round included contributions… Read More

January 23, 2022 @ 8:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Indian Fintech firm Paytm reveals that it’s growing rapidly and so is the cloud infrastructure. The main reason for choosing cloud computing and processing is its ability to scale in and scale out according to changing requirements. As explained by Paytm in a blog post,… Read More

January 22, 2022 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tide, the UK’s business financial platform, reportedly added 100,000 members in 2021, which represents an increase of 30%, “taking the total number of Tide members to almost 400,000.” Tide is now one of the largest providers of banking services to UK SMEs. 2021 saw a… Read More

January 18, 2022 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Razorpay asks whether you’re aware of what’s one of the things that’s quite common among all Indian startup founders and business owners. According to Razorpay, they tend to struggle when managing tax and compliance payments. And, if you’ve just started your business,… Read More

January 13, 2022 @ 10:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India’s neobank Fintech Kaleidofin has acquired $10 million in capital via a Series B round that was led by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. The capital injection has now taken the total funding secured by Kaleidofin to $18 million. Existing institutional investors, Oiko Credit,… Read More

January 12, 2022 @ 10:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinDCX, which is India’s first crypto unicorn and claims to be the nation’s “safest” digital asset exchange, announced the appointment of Divakar Prayaga as SVP and Head of Information Security. As mentioned in an update shared with CI, Divakar will be expected to play a… Read More

January 11, 2022 @ 10:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Pine Labs, a digital payments firm that confidentially filed for a $500 million IPO at valuation of around $7 billion, notes that online payment methods in India have been “around for a while now and with their rising popularity, they are here… Read More

January 11, 2022 @ 5:56 am By JD Alois  |  

PayU has partnered with SBM Bank India to launch LazyCard, a prepaid card backed by a credit line. LazyPay is PayU’s BNPL solution. According to a company statement, the card aims at empowering the financially underserved with easy access to credit. LazyCard is said to… Read More

January 10, 2022 @ 11:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Indian Fintech firm Razorpay notes that the developer experience is at the “core” of all their innovations. The Fintech Unicorn writes in a blog post that they know that you “love Postman for its simple platform for building and testing APIs.” Razorpay… Read More

January 10, 2022 @ 12:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Indian Fintech Zeta says that it has been a great year in the US. Their journey is just getting started, the company reveals in an update. Bhavin Turakhia, Co-founder and CEO at Zeta, notes that he’d like to share a short recap… Read More

January 6, 2022 @ 11:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Indian payments Fintech Paytm says that one of things they are proud of is their 23 million merchant partners, who have chosen them for the “trusted” and secure payments experience. Paytm writes in a blog post that they’ve built their leadership in the peer-to-merchants space,… Read More

January 6, 2022 @ 7:00 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The HBAR Foundation today announced a partnership with Indian composer, producer and musician A.R. Rahman, to create content for a new NFT music platform focused on India’s independent music community. It is providing a grant and organizational support for development and growth of the NFT… Read More

December 30, 2021 @ 11:41 am By JD Alois  |  

OneCard, an Indian Fintech that aims to become the one card to rule them all in the country, has raised $76 million according to multiple reports. The funding was led by ubiquitous Fintech investor QED along with Sequoia. Founded in 2018, the company issued its… Read More

December 30, 2021 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zhikai Chen, Head of Asia Equities at BNP Paribas Asset Management, notes that a number of factors justify their hopes for “a better year after the challenges that 2021 brought to Asian equities, and northern Asian equities in particular.” Chen writes in a blog post… Read More

December 29, 2021 @ 8:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

RazorpayX Corporate Card is planning to take the hassle out of digital spending for businesses. According to Razorpay, which recently finalized a massive funding round, they are constantly evolving and trying to “address the needs of businesses by providing a wide range of features.” So,… Read More

December 26, 2021 @ 5:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In order to ensure the safety and security of the payment system, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has expanded the tokenization facility from an earlier version/framework to Card on File Tokenization (COFT). Virtual payments Fintech Paytm has now introduced a tokenization solution for online… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 12:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The month of December is always an “exciting month” for Razorpay, the company wrote in a blog post dated December 20, 2021. Razorpay added that it has celebrated its 7th year since launch. The firm reveals that what started off as an idea between Shashank… Read More

December 20, 2021 @ 10:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Indian Fintech Razorpay notes that if you are running a business on Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), then you are probably well aware that effective cash flow can be vital to the scalability of your business. Whether your business is growing or just starting… Read More

December 20, 2021 @ 6:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Go for gold investments, the team at Paytm (NSE: PAYTM) recommends. Paytm writes in a blog post that gold is a “sought-after asset, the world over.” The Fintech firm gives the example of an Olympian seeking out that “glistening gold medal.” Paytm adds that this… Read More

December 20, 2021 @ 11:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bizongo has announced its latest fundraise of $110M via a Series D round that was led by New York-based Tiger Global Management. As mentioned in an update shared with Crowdfund Insider, the B2B e-commerce and supply chain enablement platform also launched India’s first IoT powered… Read More