Slice acquired stake in a Bank, GoPayLater is facing high defaults | 11th March, 2023

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🦉🏆 Tweets of the Week

🇮🇳 India

📰 Market Updates

1. Senior executives of global stock investment startups met with India's Ministry of Finance to discuss the impact of the 20% TCS levy on outward remittances under liberalised remittance scheme.
2. An overview of Bima Sugam, the UPI for insurance platform being developed by IRDAI (insurance regulator).

🚀 Product Launches

• OfBusiness launched a small business raw material procurement app.

📝 Regulatory Updates

1. RBI (central bank): Expressed concerns regarding banks charging high fees on foreign exchange transactions and complete lack of transparency.
2. SEBI (securities): Proposed that Mutual Fund houses get membership on stock exchanges, and do trades through their own trading terminals.

💰 Financing Announcements

1. GrowFin, an accounts receivable automation startup, raised $7.5mm.
2. GrayQuest, an education financing startup, raised $7mm.
3. Monnai*, a consumer insights infrastructure startup, raised $6.5mm.
4. North East Small Finance Bank, an incumbent small finance bank, raised $3.42mm from Slice*.

ACQUISITION:

1. CAMS acquired 55.42% of Think Analytics India.

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🌏 Asia

📰 Market Updates

1. SingLife, a Singaporean insurer, partnered with Citi and BlackRock's Aladdin to augment its asset management capabilities.
2. KasikornBank, a Thai bank, is doubling down on its Vietnam expansion and expects to grow to $400mm in net income and 8.4mm customers by 2027.
3. Findaya, Gojek's lending Indonesian partner for GoPayLater, is seeing TKB90 (days past due 90 days from due date) of 89.4%.
4. Singaporean police launched an investigation into Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon.
5. ANT Group converted a syndicated credit facility into a $6.5bn sustainability-linked loan last year, the largest of its kind in Asia-Pacific.
6. AsiaPay, a Hong Kong based digital payment co., launched Visa Instalments in Hong Kong.
7. Endowus, a Singapore-based private wealth startup, launched Endowus Empower to help underrepresented groups with financial advice.
8. Babel Finance, a Hong King based crypto co., filed for moratorium with the Singaporean courts and is working on new stablecoin to repay $766mm loss.
9. A Payment Attitudes Study by VISA in 2022, revealed that 9 out of 10 Singaporeans prefer using card instead of cash for payments.
10. FOMOPay, a Singaporean payments company and major payments institution licensee, announced that it is not part of the Singaporean Clearing House Association.

💰 Financing Announcements

1. Trukkr, a Pakistani logistics and fintech startup, raised $6.4mm.
2. iLex, a Singaporean marketplace lending company, raised $4.5mm.

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