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🦉🏆 Tweets of the Week

🇮🇳 India

📰 Market Updates

• Digit General Insurance filed its draft IPO prospectus.
• Yubi, a wholesale credit marketplace, grew to INR 153 cr ($19.1mm) in revenues in FY22.
• Paytm partnered with Samsung to launch in-store payments and BNPL for Samsung users.
• Zerodha, in its 12th anniversary blog post, claimed that the broking industry is seeing activity plateau with a 40% drop in new user additions.
• PhonePe, Walmart owned payments company in India, plans to launch a consumer commerce app that is integrated with India's Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC).
• PhonePe claimed it processed $830bn in annualised Total Payments Value (TPV) in the quarter ended June-22 processing 3.1bn transactions per month.
• SBM Bank disallowed its fintech partners from onboarding new users for credit on PPI card programs.

🚀 Product Launches

• Clinikk* launched an all inclusive health subscription product.

📝 Regulatory Updates

• RBI (central bank): Released a discussion paper on charges in payment systems.

💰 Financing Announcements

1. Aditya Birla Health Insurance raised $83.5mm for 9.99% shareholding from ADIA.
2. Jar*, a GenZ savings and investment startup, raised $22.6mm.
3. Mool Finance, a payroll management startup, raised an undisclosed amount.
4. Finverv, a lending as a service startup, raised an undisclosed amount.

ACQUISITION:

1. Razorpay acquired 80% of Ezetap, an offline payment startup, valuing it at $200mm.

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🌏 Asia

📰 Market Updates

• GCash, a Philippine payments startup, claimed to have 66mm registered users.
• Funding Societies launched BizFund, an enhanced SME-focused term financing.
• SafePay, a Pakistani payments startup, received a license from SBP (Pakistan's central bank) to pilot its payments systems. This is the second approval to receive its final full service payments operator license.
• Xendit, a payments startup, is aggressively expanding its presence in Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries.
• Korea Financial Intelligence Unit (KoFIU) notified the authorities of 16 unregistered Virtual Asset Service Providers operating in the domestic market.

💰 Financing Announcements

1. Fomo Pay, a Singaporean payments company, raised $13mm.
2. Majoo, a small business SaaS and payments startup, raised $10mm.
3. RootAnt, a banking as a service startup, raised $4.5mm.

🌏 International

Please find our global coverage and consider subscribing.

• US and Global, written by Nik Milanovic published on Friday’s and Saturday’s.
• Europe and UK, written by Michael Jenkins published on Monday’s.
• Latin America, written by Christine Chang.
• Africa, written by Benjamin Dada.

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