Latest news and analysis on how technology is reshaping finance — from digital payments and neobanks to blockchain, lending, and financial innovation.
Slice, a Bengaluru-based financial firm, is the latest unicorn to join the club, with a five-fold increase in valuation to $1 billion in just six months. In a Series B round headed by New York-based investment companies Tiger Global and Insight Partners, the startup, which distributes credit cards targeted towards young professionals, raised $220 million. … Read more
Drona Pay, a Mumbai-based SaaS solution, has raised $500K in a seed round led by Varanium Capital, Credit Saison, and fintech experts Kunal Shah, Jitendra Gupta, Amrish Rau, and others. Drona Pay, founded in 2021 by Satish Kashyap, Pallavi Narvekar, and Sukhdev Sinh Zala, provides real-time protection for financial institutions using ml and proprietary data … Read more
Kinara Capital, a fast-growing fintech, recently launched myKinara mobile app that comes with a simple 3-step process and is a first-of-its-kind in the unsecured MSME business lending space. myKinara app, now live on the Google Play Store, puts the power at the fingertips of small business entrepreneurs to securely apply and receive collateral-free business loans … Read more
India’s leading digital ecosystem for consumers and merchants (1) Paytm today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Paytm Money has launched ‘Margin Pledge’ feature. The feature will allow users to pledge their existing stocks and ETFs in return for a collateral margin that can be used for trading in stocks, ETFs, futures, and options. Investors holding … Read more
True Credits, an NBFC and an affiliate of True Balance, an RBI-authorized lending firm, was founded by Balancehero India Private Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Balancehero Co Ltd Korea, and launched a $30 million debt financing on Tuesday. In FY2021, the third round brought the total debt raised to $55 million. Northern Arc, Arthmate, Shine … Read more
Recordent, a non-banking payment bureau fintech business, has raised $400,000 in angel finance from the Kantamaneni Family Office, IIM Calcutta Innovation Park, and other angel investors from India and the United States. Recordent works closely with more than 50 SME industry associations and wants to continue forming significant collaborations in order to offer value to … Read more
Altum Credo, a housing finance company, has acquired a fresh equity investment from Amicus Capital, a growth fund, worth Rs 50 crore ($6.7 million). Existing investors Aavishkaar Capital and PS Pai and family contributed Rs 19 crore ($2.5 million) each, bringing the total round size to Rs 88 crore ($12 million). Altum was founded by … Read more
CARS24, India’s leading e-commerce platform for pre-owned vehicles and Poonawalla Fincorp Ltd (Formerly known as Magma Fincorp Limited), a non-deposit taking systemically important non-banking finance Company (ND-SI-NBFC), have announced their strategic partnership for quick and seamless consumer financing on vehicles bought from CARS24. In this partnership, Poonawalla Fincorp Ltd will fulfill consumer loans originating through … Read more
IDFC FIRST Bank and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL) today signed an agreement to facilitate fuel payments by motorists at HPCL’s retail outlets using the Bank’s FASTags. Further, IDFC FIRST Bank’s FASTags can now also be bought, recharged and replaced by passenger vehicle users at select HPCL retail outlets. This partnership makes the purchase and use … Read more
Branch, one of the most popular personal finance applications, has promoted Anshul Agrawal to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the company’s global operations. Anshul has more than 15 years of experience in technological infrastructure and architecture, as well as security, performance, product development, and UI/UX best practises. He’s an engineer from IIT Roorkee who dropped … Read more
PayU Finance, which owns LazyPay, India’s preferred Buy Now Pay Later solution and PaySense, a full stack personal loans company, has elevated Bhavik Kaul as the company’s Chief Product Officer (CPO), further strengthening its leadership team to scale up the business and pave the way for the next phase of growth. He will be responsible for building and expanding … Read more
Zenpay Solutions, a fintech startup, announced that it has raised an unknown amount of money from AngelBay and TheStartupLab, as well as angel investors. Zenpay, a fintech firm founded in 2018, provides banking services to small and medium businesses (SMEs) that employ blue-collar workers. Zenpay plans to use the new funds to expand its technical … Read more
ETMONEY, one of India’s fastest growing investments and wealth management platform, has crossed the milestone of 3 billion US dollars’ (INR 22,500 Crores) of total mutual fund investments being managed on the platform. The current value of investments made through ETMONEY has crossed $1Bn itself while another $2Bn of investments are being actively managed by … Read more
V-Mart Retail Limited announced the appointment of Aakash Moondhra, Global CFO of PayU, as Chairman of the company. The Company also announced a strategic change in its leadership structure, further improving the corporate governance framework with the role of Chairman and Managing Director now being split, with Mr. Aakash Moondhra (Independent Director) being designated as … Read more
MobiKwik, one of the largest mobile wallets and Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) Fintech companies in India, has collaborated with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and Axis Bank to launch “MobiKwikRuPay Card”. The card will be free of charge to customers and purely digital keeping in line with the growing demand for digital payments across … Read more
Ruptok, a fintech platform for gold loans, has raised Rs 16 crore from existing and new investors, including Manuvel Malabar Jewellers and industry veterans and HNIs Nivedan Sahay and Neeraj Aggarwala, in its pre-Series A fundraising round. According to the firm, over Rs 60 crore has been distributed to over 1,600 clients. Ruptok is a … Read more
In addition to a previous interim round with current investors Sequoia Capital and Ribbit Capital, Fi, a neo-bank for working professionals, has secured $50 million at a valuation of $315 million from B Capital Group, Falcon Edge, and others. Fi’s worth has increased sevenfold from their Series A financing in 2020, when it was valued … Read more
Unity Small Finance Bank Limited (Unity Bank), has commenced operations. Having complied with all requisite regulatory approvals, the Bank has begun operations in record time, with a quick turnaround from the RBI’s approval received on October 12, 2021. Unity Bank is founded by Centrum Financial Services Limited (Centrum), the established and profitable small business lending arm … Read more
Home Credit India, a local arm of the international consumer finance provider with operations spanning across Europe and Asia and committed to driving financial inclusion in India, has partnered with Flexmoney, India’s leading full-lifecycle BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) Digital Credit Network Platform provider to offer Instant Cardless EMI to Home Credit customers across Flexmoney’s … Read more
Prior to its IPO, PB Fintech, the holding company for PolicyBazaar and PaisaBazaar, received Rs 2569.73 crore from 155 anchor investors. The company claimed in a filing with the stock exchanges that the participants included both domestic and overseas investors, with shares distributed at a price of Rs 980 per share. PB Fintech’s initial public … Read more
