NPCI – UPI now also for recurring payments

Globalfintechfest, witnesses a launch of UPI autopay. Now many of the subscription services which consumers end up in paying 1 by 1 remembering dates and amounts possibly will be taken care by UPI itself. Globalfintechfest, event on the other side also brings in many fintech players of India today, 22nd Jul under one virtual pavilion and all can have a great experience of the new era of trade fairs and conferences. Will be tuned into the fest and events to bring you more! Live from the virtual event digitally to…

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InCred Raises Rs 500 Cr In Debt Funding

Mumbai based fintech startup InCred has raised Rs 500 Cr in debt funding from public sector banks and public financial institutions. Founded in 2016 by Bhupinder Singh, InCred aims to make the lending process easier. InCred leverages technology and data science to make lending quick and easy. InCred has over 5 lakh customers in more than 20 cities in India. Vivek Bansal, Group CFO of InCred, said, “InCred is strengthening its funding base to support its growth vision. The recently concluded debt issuance is an endorsement of our business model, risk and…

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Calm: World’s new Happy App

Have been talking to a bunch of professionals and found this app has been used by few of them. Doing some research also found this is called a happy app, helping you do online sessions to keep your mind calm and more importantly giving it sometime during hectic schedules.  The entire gamification led play to engage users with micro sessions and then with interventions over time somehow got their users engaged with DIY meditation tools. With over a few 10st of million downloads, it seems like they are upto something…

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Aarogya Sethu: Making it’s mark and helping people to some extent

Aarogyasethu, literally means your health bridge, It's been talk of the town for a while and seems like whole Govt machinery if behind it to make it happen. Just happen to get my passport renewal done last week and found all who get into the Passport seva kendras have to have this app and it's mandatory. Another story we came across, it's mandatory for availing any medical services in hospitals as well as mandatory for travel in most of the states. While it is meant to help, people are still…

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Tiktok giving space to many: Now Josh by Dailyhunt after Mitron, Chingari and more

After many like Mitron, Chingari and few more daily hunt gets into the limelight with it’s app Josh with over 5million downloads. The video share market in India is pretty large proven by tiktok already, with the ban it gave rise to many however assuming the main revenue for these are advertising – will advertisers find the fragmented market as a play to get in. On the other side it’s also about makers and watchers. Will makers goto so many apps to publish their content and collate followers and their…

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The tale of discounts and offers : How it has reformed the customer-brand relationship

We don’t like to buy things anymore on MRP. Often there are big margins on most of the products ranges from small to big, and we want value addition from whatever we buy. That’s why  discounts are now an unavoidable part of an Indian shopper. Be it online shopping or offline in-store shopping, offers & discounts have been now taken for granted. However, it is the new talk. These deals and discounts that we take for granted today didn’t even exist before. Discounts, coupons and deals were born when brands surfed number of…

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