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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
Postpaid Mini: Paytm launches small ticket loans
Digital payments and financial services platform, Paytm, have launched “Postpaid Mini” service for users on July 5, 2021. About Postpaid Mini service Postpaid mini service was launched in partnership with Aditya Birla Finance Ltd. It is an extension of Paytm’s ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2021
Digital India: India leads in Digital Payments
The UK based payments system company ACI recently released a report on digital payments. According to the report, India has the highest number of real-time online transactions in 2020. Key Findings of the Report The Digital payment market of India ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021
Where is Jack Ma? Reasons of Disappearance
The Chinese billionaire, Alibaba founder, Jack ma has not been seen in public since October 2020. At the same time the billionaire had hit out against the ruling communist Regime in China. What is the issue? The speculation around the ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2021
Paytm Money launches stock trading service
Paytm has launched the stock trading services thereby giving competition to the discount brokers such as Zerodha, Upstox, etc. The stock trading is available in the beta version of Paytm Money App for a few android users as part of ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
Paytm receives license from IRDAI
India’s leading payment and fin-tech company Paytm has entered into the insurance segment, as its subsidiary received licence to sell life-and non-life products from the regulator- Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI). Noida-based Paytm announced that it will ..
Paytm launches POS device for smaller merchants
Leading Indian fin-tech start-up company Paytm has recently launched a point-of-sale (POS) device for smaller merchants. The device would accept payments through cash, Paytm wallet, debit and credit cards and Unified Payments Interface (UPI) apps. It is an android-based all-in-one ..
New Start-up Hub of India
The “Turbocharging Delhi-NCR Startup Ecosystem” report issued by TiE Delhi-NCR and consulting firm Zinnov has observed that Delhi-NCR is a bigger start-up hub than Bangalore. The report notes that NCR not only beats Bangalore in the number of active start-ups, the ..