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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
The hotly debated fintech startup is focusing on monetization, with a rapidly growing loan book, but challenges old and new loom on the horizon.
CRED, serial entrepreneur Kunal Shah’s second fintech venture, has managed to raise $228 million in equity funding in a little over two and a half years. Including $30 million as seed capital six months before it launched in November 2018.
The startup, which allows users to pay their credit card bills using its app and earn rewards, focused almost entirely on building its user base of credit-card-using Indians with high credit scores. This is what defined the first 18 months or so of the service, to the point that “What is CRED’s business model?” became a running joke.
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A local fintech deal to consolidate operations, feedback on Saudi Arabia’s proposed IPO rules, and Ras Al Khaimah’s casino economy.
The newly announced levy on UPI payments undermines the very foundation of using digital payments for stock market investing. Brokers are in a tizzy.
The Rs 250 SIP was launched last year by the former SEBI chairperson with one clear goal: financial inclusion. More than a year later, the much-hyped scheme doesn’t seem to have caught on with MF investors.
