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Thursday, June 21, 2018

By Suman Chaudhary

California, US-based Tala, which is named in one of the fastest growing FinTech startups in the world by Forbes, announced the launch of its first engineering hub in Bangalore, India in order to broaden access to credit and financial services.

Tala plans to build India as the hub for its Asian operations, and the Bangalore team will play an integral role in executing Tala’s vision for the market in the region.

Founded in 2012 by an Indian-origin entrepreneur Shivani Siroya, Tala is an innovative, fast-paced mobile technology and data science startup, that provides a credit scoring and reporting platform to financial services institutions in emerging countries.

Photo courtesy of Pabak Sarkar.