india

India (official name: the Republic of India; Hindi: Bhārat Gaṇarājya) is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

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India’s Paytm Expands CEO Role To Include Oversight Of Growing Payments Business
India’s Paytm Expands CEO Role To Include Oversight Of Growing Payments Business
December 26, 2021  |  Payment Methods

Digital payments company Paytm has announced that Paytm Lending CEO Bhavesh Gupta has decided to take on leadership for the company’s offline payments division, a...

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Airtel Payments Bank Crests 1B in Transaction Volume
Airtel Payments Bank Crests 1B in Transaction Volume
December 26, 2021  |  Banking

Airtel Payments Bank now has over one billion transactions on its platform during September quarter 2021-2022, sources say. This represents around 61% of its year-over-year...

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Edelweiss General Insurance, PhonePe Partner on Digital Motor Insurance 
Edelweiss General Insurance, PhonePe Partner on Digital Motor Insurance 
December 22, 2021  |  Partnerships

Indian InsurTech Edelweiss General Insurance (EGI) recently partnered with digital payments platform PhonePe to offer digital motor insurance products.  PhonePe customers can now buy EGI’s...

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Indian Tax Officials Raid Chinese Mobile Companies 
Indian Tax Officials Raid Chinese Mobile Companies 
December 22, 2021  |  Cross-border Payments

India’s Income Tax Department is carrying out a widespread crackdown on Chinese mobile companies, conducting searches at their Indian headquarters.  According to multiple published reports...

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Snapdeal IPO Filing Spotlights India’s Great Digital Shift, Competitive Pressures 
Snapdeal IPO Filing Spotlights India’s Great Digital Shift, Competitive Pressures 
December 21, 2021  |  IPO

It’s a truism that the great digital shift has been a global phenomenon. Consumers’ own pivot during the pandemic to transact on their mobile devices,...

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Mastercard Teams with Google Pay in India to Drive Tokenization for Card Payments
Mastercard Teams with Google Pay in India to Drive Tokenization for Card Payments
December 21, 2021  |  Payment Methods

Mastercard and Google Pay are teaming up to launch tokenization that will enable users in India to make payments using a secure digital token without...

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Online Marketplace Snapdeal May File Draft IPO With India’s Markets Regulator
Online Marketplace Snapdeal May File Draft IPO With India’s Markets Regulator
December 20, 2021  |  IPO

Online marketplace Snapdeal is likely to file papers soon with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) for an initial public offering (IPO), The...

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Future Retail Feels Financial Momentum
Future Retail Feels Financial Momentum
December 20, 2021  |  Retail

Indian department store chain Future Retail Ltd.’s shares and dollar bonds started the week on an upswing Monday (Dec. 20) when the Competition Commission of...

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RBI Supports a Full Ban on Cryptocurrencies in India
RBI Supports a Full Ban on Cryptocurrencies in India
December 19, 2021  |  Cryptocurrency

The Reserve Bank of India is in favor of a total ban on cryptocurrencies, Economic Times of India writes. The news comes from anonymous sources...

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