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Fintech highlights of the day

25 Jul 2025, 12:26 PM

October 4thJio-BlackRock gets Sebi's in-principle nod to set up mutual fund biz...

RBI invites applications for SRO in account aggregator space

25 Jul 2025, 12:28 PM

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has called applications for a self-regulatory organization (SRO) for the Account Aggregator (AA) ecosystem.

PhonePe plans to surrender account aggregator (NBFC-AA) licence

25 Jul 2025, 12:26 PM

PhonePe has decided to surrender its Account Aggregator (NBFC-AA) licence to the Reserve Bank of India almost 18 months after after getting the licence....

Sahamati Labs partners with Google Cloud to embed AI in account aggregator framework

30 Sep 2025, 13:51 PM

Sahamati Labs, the research and innovation division of the account aggregator (AA) industry body Sahamati, has joined forces with Google Cloud India to ...

The Payment Aggregator Paradox: License to Struggle?

25 Jul 2025, 13:02 PM

The payment aggregator (PA) license in India has been highly coveted by domestic and global businesses alike including Reliance, Tata, Google and Amazon...

The shadow economy of online gaming: How money moves beyond the screen

16 Sep 2025, 10:59 AM

“I gave a contract to someone to build my house in my village in Odisha. The contractor gave Rs 6 lakh to one of his staff for mater...

What went wrong with payment aggregator plans of Stripe, Zomato?

25 Jul 2025, 13:02 PM

Last week, the world’s most valuable fintech company, Stripe, decided to scale back its India domestic payments plans due to regulator...

Exclusive: ICICI Bank breaks zero-fee UPI model, starts charging payment aggregators

20 Aug 2025, 14:42 PM

ICICI Bank has become the first major bank to charge payment aggregators for Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions, ending year...

RBI brings the wild west under regulatory fold; Hello, AI friend

30 Sep 2025, 14:10 PM

Exclusive: Paytm gets in-principle approval from RBI to operate as payment aggregator

12 Aug 2025, 22:00 PM

Paytm Payments Services Limited (PPSL), the payments aggregator arm of Vijay Shekhar Sharma-led Paytm, has received the in-principle app...

Exclusive: Paytm’s payment aggregator unit fires all senior executives

25 Jul 2025, 13:02 PM

Paytm denies any such development. Their responses are below.Paytm Payments Services Limited (PPS...

UPI’s Zero-MDR (Illusion) Model is Cracking – Who’s Really Paying the Price?

15 Aug 2025, 22:04 PM

"Well, until it's actually brought back, I don’t believe in anything. For years, they’ve been giving hope of bringing it back.”...

Orchestrating an Exit: Why payment aggregators are moving away from Juspay

25 Jul 2025, 12:26 PM

For years, India’s digital payments ran through a silent but powerful middleman—third-party orchestrators like Juspay. But now, the country’s bigg...

Scoop Confirmed: Paytm’s payment aggregator unit CEO Nakul Jain on his way out

25 Jul 2025, 12:26 PM

Paytm Payments Services Limited (PPSL), a subsidiary of Vijay Shekhar Sharma-led Paytm, is undergoing a leadership shuffle and workforce...

PhonePe ends partnership with Juspay; plans direct integrations with merchants

25 Jul 2025, 13:02 PM

PhonePe has reportedly ended its partnership with payment orchestration platform Juspay, as the Walmart-owned digital payments firm plans to offer payme...

Cashfree pilots cross-border payments with Swiggy, Nykaa, others

25 Jul 2025, 12:28 PM

Payment aggregator firm Cashfree is reportedly piloting cross-border payments with select merchants. It was the first company to receive the cross-borde...

KYC startup Equal raises $10 million in Series A led by Prosus, others

25 Jul 2025, 12:26 PM

Equal, data sharing and ID verification platform, has raised $10 million in its Series-A round led by Prosus Ventures, Tomales Bay Capital and its found...

Exclusive: Razorpay's offline payments head Kunal Gothivarekar moving out

29 Sep 2025, 15:08 PM

Razorpay's offline payments business head, Kunal Gothivarekar, is moving out from the company as part of some internal re-alignment at...

PhonePe pares net loss in FY25 as it prepares for IPO

22 Sep 2025, 18:05 PM

Walmart-owned fintech firm PhonePe's net loss narrowed to Rs 1,727 crore in the financial year ended March 31, 2025 as the company prepares to float its...

Journalism was already dying — AI wasn't the culprit

01 Sep 2025, 11:52 AM