digital payments
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Google fast-tracks payments initiative with launch of UPI-based Tez
After months of speculation, search engine giant Google on Monday announced its foray into India’s burgeoning digital payments market with ......
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Digital payments not a one-player-takes-all game: PhonePe co-founder Rahul Chari
For a rather late entrant into the digital payments segment, Flipkart-owned PhonePe has claimed high growth figures in a short ......
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PayPal shortlists 5 fin-tech startups for India Incubator
Global digital payments company PayPal Holdings, Inc. has shortlisted five fin-tech startups for the fifth edition of its India Incubator ......
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Bajaj Finance buys stake in MobiKwik at $327 mn valuation
Bajaj Finance Ltd said on Wednesday it will acquire a 10.83% stake in mobile wallet company MobiKwik for about Rs 225 crore ......
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Did Axis Bank lap up FreeCharge for a song, or pay a tad too much?
India's third-largest private-sector lender Axis Bank snapped up beleaguered digital wallet firm FreeCharge for $60 million (Rs 385 crore) last ......
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Axis Bank acquires FreeCharge for $60 mn
Private-sector lender Axis Bank said on Thursday it has agreed to acquire e-commerce firm Snapdeal's digital payments platform FreeCharge for ......
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Axis Bank may acquire wallet firm FreeCharge
Private sector bank Axis Bank has emerged as one of the key players in the race to acquire Snapdeal-owned payments ......
Opinion
Can traditional banks keep up with fin-tech innovations?
Banking in India, up until a few years ago, was somewhat like visiting a distant relative. You had to set ......
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Will Eko Financial's contrarian bet on India's cash economy pay off?
Santosh Yadav, a migrant labourer working in Delhi, visits a retail store every week to send money to his family ......
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Company watch: BillDesk reaps dividends from early start, digital payments boom
Long before words such as Paytm, MobiKwik and digital payments entered everyday vocabulary in India, a team of three former ......
