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The untold story behind Pine Labs

The untold story behind Pine Labs' multi-year OMC contracts [Exclusive]

02 Mar 2026, 14:40 PM

The IOCL, BPCL and HPCL deals reflect a quiet realignment in PSU fuel payment mandates.

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India's PoS industry is in distress: A wave of silent fire sales has begun

11 Dec 2025, 18:37 PM

What began as a few distressed sale conversations has now widened into a full-blown consolidation wave in India's offline payments space.

Exclusive: Fiserv India looks to sell its fuel payments business

Exclusive: Fiserv India looks to sell its fuel payments business

25 Nov 2025, 01:59 AM

Fiserv has been reaching out to payments companies and banks since past few weeks, industry insiders informed.

Scoop Confirmed! ICICI Bank exiting merchant acquiring JV

Scoop Confirmed! ICICI Bank exiting merchant acquiring JV

14 Dec 2024, 06:19 AM

In August, The Head and Tale was the first to report that ICICI Bank has terminated its exclusive merchant acquiring agreement with ICICI Merchant Services (IMSPL).

Exclusive: ICICI Bank

Exclusive: ICICI Bank's new merchant acquiring strategy

08 Aug 2024, 10:49 AM

In what you can call “the empire strikes back”, a senior banker sees this development signalling a new market trend of traditional financial institutions...

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Fintech Highlights

  1. Kissht raises Rs 278 crore from anchor investors

  2. Go Digit Q4 net premium income flat, profit up 28%

  3. Novio nets Series A funding led by Cornerstone Ventures

  4. Sahi raises $33 million in Series B funding led by Accel Growth

  5. Seed funding sinks 65% as late-stage lifts fintech in Q1 2026
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AI/Emerging Tech

  1. Exfinity Venture Partners books 13x returns with partial exit from CloudSEK

  2. OpenAI breaks free from Microsoft cloud exclusivity

  3. Google to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic

  4. LightFury Games bags $11 million from Blume, MS Dhoni, others

  5. OpenAI and Infosys partner to scale AI across enterprises
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IPO Tales

  1. Turtlemint IPO: Behind its 8x revenue jump, an internal deal does the heavy lifting

  2. Shiprocket IPO: A profitable core, costly emerging bets

  3. Fractal IPO: A bountiful harvest for PE investors, now comes the real AI test

  4. Boat IPO: A second shot amid management shake-up, flat revenues, eager to exit investor
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Money & Machines

  1. 'Guilty, until proven innocent'; The ARR illusion

  2. Rishi Gupta is out on bail. What next?; The cost of frivolous AI use

  3. Fintechs' Dubai Dream; Founders' AI Second Act

  4. A CEO arrested, hearing delayed; Sarvam's AI pitch
  5. Previous editions...

PE/VC Tales

  1. Micro VCs: Fueling India's startup pipeline or distorting it?

  2. Inside the fintech and financial services bets of Peak XV, Accel, Elevation

  3. Enterprise bets pay off as Arali Ventures eyes ‘larger’ third fund

  4. TDV Partners bullish on consumer over AI, plans bigger fund
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