FinTech
First Dubai FinTech Summit
Dubai is making strides towards becoming a global business hub, with its strategic location, world-class infrastructure, and investor-friendly policies. Recently, the city hosted the inaugural Dubai FinTech Summit from May 8th to 9th, which was hosted by the Dubai International ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2023
Category: Important Days & Events Current Affairs • International / World Current Affairs
BharatPe Gets Nod for ePayment Aggregator Licence
Fintech unicorn BharatPe recently announced that it has received in-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to operate as a Payment Aggregator. The approval was granted to the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Resilient Innovations Private Ltd. This comes as ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2023
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
RBI’s Launch of Utkarsh 2.0
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has launched Utkarsh 2.0, the second phase of its medium-term strategy for strengthening regulatory and supervisory mechanisms. Utkarsh 2.0 builds upon the foundation laid by Utkarsh 2022, which was launched in July 2019 and ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2023
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs
Six years of ‘Bharat Interface for Money’
On the 30th of December 2016, the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, launched the Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) payment app. Six years later, BHIM is still going strong, with a steadily increasing user base and a high volume ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2023
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs
Global Fintech Fest 2022
The Global Fintech Fest 2022 is organized to provide a platform to discuss ways to achieve sustainable finance. Key facts The GFF 2022 is jointly organized by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the Payments Council of India (PCI) and ..
Month: Current affairs - September, 2022
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs • Important Days & Events Current Affairs
Manthan- SEBI Ideathon
The Chairperson of SEBI, Madhabi Puri Buch has launched the ideathon ‘Manthan’, to promote innovations. Overview: India is currently well-positioned to develop and use technology in the securities market sector so as to deliver customized solutions at minimal cost to ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2022
Category: Important Days & Events Current Affairs
What is a Deccahorn?
Deccahorns are private firms whose value exceeded over ten billion USD. Recently Swiggy has become the fourth Indian company to earn the tag. The other three companies that hold the tag already are Paytm, a FinTech, Oyo (a hotel aggregator) ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs
NASSCOM Study on Start-ups
NASSCOM is National Association of Software and Service Companies. It is a non – governmental organization and it works to expand IT sector of India. According to a recent study of NASSCOM, the startup ecosystem in India has increased twice. ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Flipkart: New Startup Programmes
LEAP is the new start up programme of Flipkart. It is also called Leap Ahead. It aims to help the start ups in India. Under this LEAP programme, Flipkart is to implement two programmes. They are FLIN and FLA. FLIN ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs
Goa to host 2nd edition of Startup India Global Venture Capital Summit 2019
The 2nd edition of Startup India Global Venture Capital Summit is being organized in Goa on 6-7 December 2019 for Fund Managers and Limited Partners of Top Global Venture Capital (VC) Firms. The summit is being organized by Department for ..