Fintech investments in India nearly doubled to $3.7 billion in 2019 from $1.9 billion the previous year, putting the country as the world’s third largest fintech center, behind only the U.S. and U.K., according to Accenture. Accenture, which analyzed data from CB Insights, a global venture-finance data and analytics firm, said the number of deals […]

Discount broking firm Zerodha said on Thursday it had applied for an asset management company (AMC) licence, which will permit it to build mutual fund products. Nithin Kamath, founder and CEO of Zerodha, told ET that the application to markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is aimed at building such products targeted […]

The income tax (I-T) department has taken Walmart-owned Flipkart to high court over its Rs 110-crore demand. The case relates to the treatment of discounts as capital expenditure instead of revenue expenditure, according to court listings reviewed by TOI. Flipkart was issued a notice last month to appear and represent its case following the tax […]

Walmart’s top executives are betting big on its Indian payments enterprise PhonePe’s foray into digital ATM business to claim the top spot in the country’s increasingly competitive digital payments market where the global retailer faces stiff competition from peers Google, Amazon, Facebook and Alipay-backed Paytm. The recently-launched digital ATM feature by PhonePe plans to enable […]

IIT Madras has roped in technology services company Microsoft to resolve a server-related dysfunction impacting official e-mails since late Monday evening, said a senior professor aware of the network issue plaguing one of the top engineering and research institutes in the country. In a statement to the press on Wednesday, IIT-Madras said the e-mail sever […]

India’s competition watchdog did not have any material on record to prove that ecommerce marketplaces Amazon and Flipkart entered into exclusive deals with smartphone manufacturers on their platforms, according to a detailed transcript of a court order. The Karnataka High Court had on Friday stayed the Competition Commission of India’s January 13 directive ordering a […]

ETMoney has introduced an option to invest in National Pension Scheme (NPS) to help customers save on taxes and increase flow to the PFRDA controlled pension corpus.Through the feature, the fintech platform expects to double the NPS users across the country, a company spokesperson said. “India has one of the youngest working populations in the […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Online food ordering platform Swiggy has raised $113 million, led by existing investor South African internet giant Naspers. The latest capital raising values the company at nearly $3.6 billion. The fund infusion is part of a larger $150 million funding round, sources said. Other existing investors, Hadley Harbour Master Investments and Chinese […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Food delivery platform Swiggy has raised $113 million led by South African internet giant Naspers, valuing it at nearly $3.3 billion. Other existing investors Hadley Harbour Master Investments and Meituan also participated in the round, regulatory filings show. About $100 million of the investment has come from Naspers, which holds over 40% […]

A microsite UPIChalega.com has also been setup where users can access information about live banks and third-party apps. India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is all set to get its ‘Mutual Fund Sahi Hai’ moment. Awareness campaigns and adoption drives for popular payments interface is set to flood India’s media space as regulators and government bodies […]