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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Faced with allegations of being a deposit business, the digital gold-focused startup finds itself at a crossroads.
Jar co-founder Nishchay Ag had enough time to respond to the authorities.
It was in October 2025 that police officials first visited Ag to question him about his digital gold-focused startup, following an alert by the Reserve Bank of India’s Market Intelligence Unit. A few days later, when the police asked for information about the Bengaluru-based business, there was no response, as per the court order. “When reply was not received, repeated notices started being issued to the petitioners on the kind of business that they are engaged in,” reads the court document of 4 March 2026 available here. …
With competition in the segment intensifying, the chief business development officer of India’s largest exchange unpacks the bourse’s strategy going forward.
Fintech startups have only been able to corner a small part of the value in gold-linked financial products like gold loans and digital gold even as gold prices have shot up. Regulatory changes may pose a further challenge.
The three-year-old startup that allows micro-investments in digital gold is struggling to keep users hooked to its core offering. Worse, an attempt at diversification has come to nought
