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Viewpoint: The challenges for fintech adoption in India
Promoting fintech in India is preaching to the choir. In 2005, then Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Y.V. Reddy used the term ‘financial inclusion’ for the first time in the central bank’s annual policy statement. In the decade and change since, it has become one of the leitmotifs of governance.
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- Finance
- Region
- South Asia
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Netherland’s FMO arranges US $ 50mn syndicated loan for Nations Trust Bank
This syndicated transaction is FMO’s first repeat deal for NTB, following a subordinated loan which was provided 8 years earlier to further the bank’s ambitious growth strategy.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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- banking, banks, development finance, emerging markets, LMICs, SMEs
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Social Finance unveils two India-focused impact funds worth $2b
Global impact investment firm Social Finance on Monday announced the launch of two India-focused funds of $1 billion each in a bid to drive social change across sectors including education, social infrastructure, and affordable housing.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Omidyar Network to invest $250 million in Indian ventures
Omidyar, which has been in India for about 10 years, has already invested roughly $250 million in the country, backing about 73 organizations and start-ups, with 70% of those being equity investments and the rest being grants.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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Is Microinsurance Made for India?
Insurance is one of the most vital sectors in India’s financial inclusion plan and yet it is one of the most ignored product lines in the country.
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- South Asia
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Enterprise technology start-ups that use emerging tech to solve real-world problems
Says Nitin Gupta, co-founder, CEO and CTO at NeuroTags, “NeuroTags’ emphasis is on bringing billions of items across the merchants together to collectively fight the counterfeiting via cloud-based centralized AI-based proprietary technology.”
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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India looks to spread financial services via mobile app, quick loans portal
The Indian government has launched a web portal, a mobile application and a financial inclusion index in order to bring the country’s unbanked under the ambit of financial services industry.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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A pointed question to Unilever’s CEO unmasked a conflict in conscious capitalism
When Unilever CEO Paul Polman and the writer Anand Giridharadascame together on Thursday (Sept. 27) for a panel discussion about “conscious capitalism,” there was bound to be some disagreement.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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