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🦉🏆 Tweets of the Week
w o a h pic.twitter.com/kKgxDIfd12— Aditya Behere (@BehereBaba) February 23, 2023
Rise in derivative (equity, currency, commodity) trading through the financial year.
Though December was a down month...#SEBI Dashboard pic.twitter.com/kNRqrcRLIB— menaka doshi (@menakadoshi) February 23, 2023
Wow the people at @monzo will use the business class queue to enter heaven 🙌🏾 pic.twitter.com/mf0YpJVSp0— Wiza Jalakasi (@wizaj) February 21, 2023
1/ The fintech reckoning is a result of economic factors and overfunding in the sector and is not a reflection of the overall viability of the industry. New technologies and innovations may emerge to drive future growth in the fintech venture industry.— Gaurav Sharma (@Gaurav1105) February 19, 2023
Total number of unique individual customers who have mutual fund investments is approx 36M (3.6 crores)
Distribution - Industry customer count basis AUM sizes:
Up to 25k : ~42%
25 to 50k : ~10%
50k to 1 lac : ~11%
1 to 5 lacs : ~23%
>5 lacs : ~13%— Kunal Shah (@kunalb11) February 20, 2023
🇮🇳 India
📰 Market Updates
Indian mutual funds' collection through NFO drops 38% YoY to INR 62,000cr ($ 7.5bn) in 2022.
Insolvency cases in India rose by 25% while recovery was the lowest at 23.45% in Q3 (ended Dec, 2022).
Decentro, a banking and payments infrastructure startup, expanded to Singapore.
Banks and NBFCshave paused fintech partnerships under the first loss default guarantee (FLDG) structure.
Google enabled all Indian developers to use alternate payment methods to bill users for apps.
HDFC Bankis raising $570mm via dollar bonds to lend to domestic corporates expanding overseas.
🚀 Product Launches
India's UPI integrated with Singapore's PayNow and launched real time payments between the two countries.
IppoPayis launching micro-lending and co-branded debit cards.
📝 Regulatory Updates
RBI (central bank): Released more details on inbound travelers using UPI for domestic payments.
💰 Financing Announcement
Mintoak, a small business payment acceptance startup, raised $20mm.
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🌏 Asia
📰 Market Updates
The Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) of Thailand unveiled its plans to become a fully digital bank.
Tazapay, a Singaporean cross border payments startup, received in-principal approval from MAS to operate a payments service.
DBS Bank in Singapore saw 80% increase in bitcoin trading volume.
Fintech Pulse, a report by KPMG, revealed that Singaporerecorded $4.1bn in investments across 250 deals - its highest in three years.
Bank Fama, an Indonesian bank, rebranded to Superbank.
The Bank of Japanis kicking off pilot trials of a digital yen, after a two-year investigation phase.
FTX Japan resumed crypto and fiat withdrawals from February 21, 2023 through its crypto exchange Liquid Japan which it acquired in 2022.
Stripe launched Tap to Pay for Android devices in Singapore.
IceKredit, a Chinese AI-focused credit risk and management company, is exporting its AI-powered products to financial institutions in Southeast Asia.
KoinWorks, an Indonesian small business lender, reported revenues of $8.71mm (+~3x YoY) and net loss of $3.65mm (-43% YoY) for the year ended Dec 2021.
Maya, a Philippines-based fintech company, is looking to raise $150mm.
💰 Financing Announcements
Ledgerowl, a back-office support startup for small businesses, raised an undisclosed amount.
ACQUISITIONS:
FWD Group Holdings, a Hong Kong based insurance group, acquired 70% of Gibraltar BSN, a Malaysian Life Insurance co.
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