Harsh Kumar, Ajinkya Kawale

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IRCTC Bets Big on Payments Play
Rediff.com23 Apr 2026

IRCTC is expanding its payments arm, IRCTC Payments, to handle transactions across its...

RBI UPI Delay Plan Gets Banker Backing
Rediff.com21 Apr 2026

'It is a tradeoff between convenience and fraud prevention.'

Dream Sports pivots to fintech, AI, and sports entertainment after gaming ban
Rediff.com26 Mar 2026

Following a ban on real-money gaming, Dream Sports, the parent company of Dream11, is...

Privatisation push loses steam as IDBI Bank stake sale scrapped
Rediff.com23 Mar 2026

India's privatisation push, once projected as a cornerstone of economic reform, has...

Buying Online May Soon Be As Simple As Looking At Your Phone
Rediff.com25 Feb 2026

Mastercard and Visa are introducing passkeys that will allow users to authenticate card...

UPI Growth Slowdown Rings Alarm
Rediff.com11 Feb 2026

This would imply a 29 per cent year-on-year rise, significantly lower than growth rates...

Govt receives financial bids for IDBI Bank stake sale, says Dipam
Rediff.com7 Feb 2026

The government on Friday received financial bids for the strategic disinvestment of...

'Global Uncertainties Are Of A Magnitude We've Never Seen Before'
Rediff.com2 Feb 2026

'Global uncertainty is something which definitely occupies the minds of officials when...

Budget 2026: The Industry Wishlist...
Rediff.com29 Jan 2026

Investors and startup executives are calling for extending the period for an entity to...

UPI payments app PhonePe's $1.5 billion IPO to see Walmart cut stake
Rediff.com23 Jan 2026

As India's biggest Unified Payments Interface (UPI) app PhonePe prepares to list, the...

Debt Recovery Overhaul Likely In Budget
Rediff.com19 Jan 2026

The Centre is considering amendments to the Recovery of Debt and Bankruptcy Act in the...

NPCI sets up unit to scale up digital infra beyond payments
Rediff.com5 Jan 2026

Moving beyond digital payments, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the...

Govt notifies rules to enable 100% FDI in insurance sector
Rediff.com1 Jan 2026

Following the notification allowing 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in the...

Housing top reason for partial withdrawals under NPS in FY25
Rediff.com31 Dec 2025

The highest number of requests was reported for the purchase or construction of...

Stricter safeguards on cards for life funds
Rediff.com16 Dec 2025

The government has circulated among members ofParliament a new draft of the Amendment...

Fino 1st payments bank to get RBI nod to turn SFB
Rediff.com6 Dec 2025

Fino Payments Bank (Fino) has become the first such entity to get an in-principle...

WazirX Reboots Operations After Mega Hack
Rediff.com1 Dec 2025

'We've not seen a crypto exchange come back after about 45 per cent of the value on the...

BHIM's New Feature To Target Reluctant Users
Rediff.com26 Nov 2025

'This will bring in a lot of net new users to UPI.'

'For FY26, We Expect Corporate Loan Book Upto Rs 4 Tn'
Rediff.com15 Nov 2025

'We currently have new proposals worth Rs 1.48 trillion in the pipeline.'

FATF lauds India's ED as model asset recovery agency
Rediff.com11 Nov 2025

In its report, 'Asset Recovery Guidance and Best Practices', the global money...