Signzy, a supplier of digital banking infrastructure with headquarters in Bengaluru, has disclosed raising Rs 210 crore (about $26 million) in its most recent round of fundraising from Gaja Capital and previous backers Vertex Ventures and Arkam Ventures. Ankit Ratan, Ankur Pandey, and Arpit Ratan founded Signzy in 2015 to provide banks and other financial … Read more
TerraPay, a leading global payments infrastructure group today announced its partnership with NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL), the International arm of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). This association with NIPL will allow Indian customers and merchants in India with an active Unified Payments Interface Id (UPI Id) to make and accept cross-border payments seamlessly by leveraging TerraPay’s … Read more
Refinitiv, an LSEG Business and one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, today announced a long-term strategic agreement with HDFC Bank, India’s largest private sector bank, to support digital transformation and innovation programmes across the whole business in India. Under the multi-year agreement, comprehensive access to Refinitiv’s data and products … Read more
One of the top insurtech businesses, Zopper, today announced that it had raised $75 million in Series C funding from ICICI Venture* and Bessemer Venture Partners, with Creaegis serving as the round’s lead investor. Founded in 2011, during its initial days Zopper was a customer-focused point of sale (PoS) system for retailers and small and … Read more
PayPal Holdings, Inc. today announced that John Kim will join the company as Executive Vice President (EVP), Chief Product Officer (CPO), effective September 26, 2022. Kim brings unique skills and experience building foundational consumer products and marketplaces from the ground up. Throughout his career, he has driven innovative product development to compete and win in … Read more
Fi, a fintech firm that hosts a neo-banking platform, has announced a $45 million funding round. Alpha Wave Ventures led the Series A funding round. The latest funding comes after the Bengaluru-based startup raised $50 million in November 2021 at a valuation of $315 million. Ex-Google Pay executives Sujith Narayanan and Sumit Gwalani founded the … Read more
Digital lending fintech platform, LoanTap, has announced a business collaboration with Muthoot Finance. This co-lending partnership will enhance the reach for Muthoot finance to the millennial audience by leveraging LoanTap’s technology and sourcing strength. Apart from the partnership with Muthoot Finance, LoanTap is already working in collaboration with many other RBI-registered NBFCs in a co-lending … Read more
M2P Fintech, one of Asia’s leading API infrastructure provider led the USD 2.50 million funding round for the Account aggregator platform Finvu. Varanium Nexgen Fund, IIFL and DMI Sparkle Fund also participated in the round. Founded in 2017, Finvu is a registered and licensed NBFC Account Aggregator (NBFC-AA) from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) … Read more
Arya.ag, India’s largest and fastest-growing integrated grain commerce platform, today announced crossing the distinct milestone of reaching the INR 500 crore book outstanding on its embedded fintech platform, Aryadhan. This feat is propelled by Arya.ag’s indigenously built digital capabilities, which have been customised for simplified and optimum use by smallholder farmers and farmer producer organisations (FPOs). With … Read more
Progcap, a startup in corporate financing, raised $40 million from investors in its Series C investment. The business had previously received $30 million from Creation Investments and Tiger Global. It raised a total of $70 million during the most recent round, valued at $600 million. The venture, which was established in 2017 by Pallavi and … Read more
LoanTap, one of India’s fastest-growing lending tech start-ups, announced the strengthening of its senior management by appointing Ashish Jain as the Chief Financial Officer and Rajeev Das as the Chief Risk Officer. Their primary responsibilities will include implementing strategic initiatives that will be transformative and influential to the future of hyper-growing fintech. The appointment of these two … Read more
Gullak. Money, a Bengaluru-based savings and investment app, has raised $1.3 million in a pre-seed round led by Better Capital and Stellaris Venture Partners. Gullak, which was founded in January 2022 by former JusPay executives Manthan Shah and Dilip Jain, as well as Naimisha Rao, allows customers to save tiny sums of money on a … Read more
Kissht, a consumer financing platform, raised $80 million in a new round headed by Vertex Growth and the Brunei Investment Agency. The financing included existing investors Vertex Ventures SEA India and Endiya Partners. \ Kissht was founded in 2015 to give new to credit customers with a quick line of credit for small business transactions … Read more
FlexiLoans, an online lending platform for small businesses, has secured $90 million in a Series B funding round that includes a mix of equity and debt. MAJ Invest of Denmark led the $28 million equity round, while Fasanara Capital of the United Kingdom led portions of the equity and debt rounds. FlexiLoans is a digital … Read more
PayU, today, announced the appointment of three senior leaders – Narendra Babu as the Chief Technology Officer for the India Payments business; Mohit Bedi, as the Senior Vice President (SVP), to lead strategic initiatives and the Bill Payments business, and Vineet Sethi, as SVP to lead PayU’s Diversified Financial Services portfolio. PayU’s existing senior executive, Mohit Gopal will take on a new position … Read more
PhonePe, India’s leading digital payments company, in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), today unveiled a report titled, “Digital payments in India: A $10 trillion opportunity”. The report leverages BCG’s industry expertise in payments and the fintech domain, along with PhonePe’s deep insights and expertise as the market leader in Indian digital payments and its extensive Pulse database to look at … Read more
