Tagged: zestmoney

January 20, 2024 @ 7:43 pm By Michael Wong  |  

India-based financial services platform DMI Group has announced its acquisition of the Goldman Sachs-backed ‘buy now pay later’ (BNPL) platform ZestMoney. This comes after the Bengaluru-based ZestMoney ceased operations following unsuccessful attempts to revive its business amid regulatory uncertainties. DMI, having raised over $1.5 billion… Read More

May 15, 2023 @ 3:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fintech ZestMoney appears to be falling apart after its founders announced they were departing the firm. ZestMoney, is a digital EMI/  BNPL platform that has announced multiple partnerships with some pretty big firms during its brief existence. A deal with PhoneRE was in the works… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 6:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ICICI Bank recently announced that it has teamed up with ZestMoney, a digital EMI/ pay-later platform, in order to expand its ‘Cardless EMI’ facility “for purchases at retail and e-commerce platforms.” The partnership enhances affordability for millions of customers of the Bank who can use… Read More

May 30, 2021 @ 6:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India has a GDP of about $3 trillion which is relatively small when compared to the size of its population (estimated to be around 1.5 billion). There are also many unbanked and financially underserved consumers and businesses across the country. India also does not have… Read More

October 23, 2020 @ 6:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lizzie Chapman, CEO and Co-Founder at ZestMoney, which claims to be one of India’s fastest-growing Fintech businesses, has confirmed that the company has teamed up with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)  to “drive affordability” in India. Chapman noted: “Until now Apple products were relatively unaffordable for the mass… Read More

October 21, 2020 @ 9:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lizzie Chapman, CEO and Co-Founder at ZestMoney, which claims to be one of the largest and fastest-growing Fintech firms in India, notes that as the festive season begins in India, the company has seen a significant increase in demand for online “affordability” solutions from its… Read More

September 18, 2020 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lizzie Chapman, CEO and co-founder at ZestMoney, which claims to be one of the largest and fastest-growing Fintech firms in India, recently discussed what she considers the future of lending in a post COVID world. She acknowledges that this has been one of the most… Read More

March 7, 2020 @ 8:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pine Labs has teamed up with ZestMoney, a leading consumer lending Fintech firm based in India. Through the partnership, the companies will offer in-store digital equated monthly installment (EMI) options to “new-to-credit” customers via Pine Labs’ Plutus and Plutus Smart point of sale (PoS) devices. … Read More

February 1, 2020 @ 9:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

India-based ZestMoney, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered consumer lending platform, confirmed recently that last year, it managed to record more than 125% in equated monthly installment (EMI) financing. The Bengaluru-headquartered firm noted that online EMIs comprise a large portion of the Indian economy, experiencing a record-breaking… Read More

December 19, 2019 @ 2:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

ZestMoney, an India-based fintech, announced this week it secured $15 million through its Series B investment round, which was led by Goldman Sachs with participation from Naspers Fintech, Quona Capital, and Omidyar Network. Founded in 2015, ZestMoney stated that it helps everyone “live their dream… Read More

February 5, 2018 @ 1:58 pm By Therese Torris  |  

The Paris Fintech Forum 2018 (#PFF18) was a huge event, here are a few highlights from the sessions moderated by Crowdfund Insider & friends. The conference gathered more than 2,500 delegates from more than 50 countries from the five continents at the old French stock… Read More

January 3, 2017 @ 7:30 am By Jessica Pham  |  

Over 25 startups in the online lending space have rapidly emerged over the past two years, according to TechCircle analysis.  Despite signs that global fintech investment was slowing in 2016, VCCircle‘s analysis for 2017 suggests that such investment may pick up again. Arti Singh and… Read More