Tag: fintech
Credit, savings, insurance next frontiers in financial services: RBI DG
Having made digital payments a common occurance, the next challenge for the financial ecosystem is to extend that same ordinariness to credit, savings and insurance,…
ET Startup Awards 2026 | Startup of the Year: Street-smart Groww outruns regulatory odds to claim top prize
Online investment and wealthtech platform Groww bagged the coveted Startup of the Year award at the ET Startup Awards 2026 for what the jury lauded…
Meet the Indian startups that joined the billion-dollar club in H1 2026
India added five new unicorns in the first half of the year, according to Tracxn’s India Tech H1 2026 report. The startups span artificial intelligence,…
Paytm plans 10% staff increase in AI pivot, to lay off 400
Fintech pioneer Paytm is set to hire about 4,000 people over the next nine months, part of a pivot aimed at expanding its merchant network…
PhysicsWallah to infuse Rs 120 crore in its fintech arm FinZ Finance
Edtech firm PhysicsWallah will invest Rs 120 crore in its wholly-owned fintech arm FinZ Finance, as it looks to scale up the subsidiary’s operations. The…
Cashfree Payments revenue hits Rs 1,000 crore in FY26; company eyes operational profit in FY27
Fintech firm Cashfree Payments on Monday said it has achieved a revenue of around Rs 1,000 crore in FY26 and expects to post operational profit…
Lalit Keshre wins Entrepreneur of the Year for taking Groww to a Rs 1.36 lakh crore publicly traded fintech in a decade
Lalit Keshre, cofounder and chief executive of Groww, took less than a decade to build the country’s largest stock broking platform, disrupting traditional brick and…
Competition doesn’t limit growth in India: Groww’s Lalit Keshre on building a full-stack wealth platform
Lalit Keshre cofounded Groww in 2016; a decade later, the Bengaluru-based fintech firm has 21 million users, a market cap that has surged to Rs…
Regulations slow growth but reward patient founders: Razorpay’s Harshil Mathur at YC Startup School
Building in a regulated space has its own advantages because not all founders will have the patience to navigate regulatory hurdles, said Harshil Mathur, chief…
Fidelity marks down conversational AI platform Gupshup’s valuation by 80% to $278 million
A fund run by financial services giant Fidelity Investments has slashed the valuation of conversational messaging software provider Gupshup by over 80% from its initial…