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📈 Chart of the Week

Source: Nithin Kamath, cofounder, Zerodha

🇮🇳 India

📰 Market Updates

1. Razorpay, a payments startup, plans to reach a 250M in payments volume and $750bn in value by 2030.
2. NPCI, India's retail payments corporation, posted 37% YoY growth FY24 net profit to INR 1,134cr ($135M), with revenue up 42%.
3. Dhan, a stock broking startup launched in 2021, became one of the Top 10 stock brokers in India.
4. Bajaj Housing Finance's IPO to raise INR 6,560cr ($ 782M), was 2x oversubscribed on the first day.
5. Easebuzz, a payments company, revenue grew to INR 290cr ($ 34.6M) in FY24 and is expanding into B2B payments.
6. Akara Capital, the parent company of Stashfin, a consumer lending startup, listed its Non-Convertible Debentures (NCDs) on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), a first for a fintech startup.
7. India's finance ministry will advocate for new disclosure requirements for credit card issuers, fintech providers and cross border payment aggregators to make data sharing meaningful between member countries at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to combat money laundering.
8. Fintech startups account for 52% market share of the personal loans segment, according to Experian.

🚀 Product Launches

1. Supermoney, Flipkart's new payments app, launched fixed deposits and credit lines through UPI.

💰 Financing Announcements

1. Onsurity, an employee health insurance startup, raised $45M.
2. FlexiLoans, a small business lending startup, raised $35M.
3. Centricity, a wealth product distribution startup, raised $20M.
4. Moneyview, a consumer credit startup, raised $4M at $1.2bn valuation.

ACQUISITIONS:

1. Jify, an earned wage access startup, was acquired by MoneyView, a consumer credit startup, for $4.65M.
2. Caspian Impact Investments merged with BlackSoil Capital.

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🌏 Asia

📰 Market Updates

1. Stablecoin payments are gaining traction in Singapore where transaction value grew to $1bn in Q2 2024.
2. Visa partnered with KOTRA, South Korea's investment trade promotion agency, to launch a B2B card payment platform in South Korea.
3. Tokocrypto, a crypto exchange backed by Binance, received a trading license in Indonesia.
4. Kredit Hero, a small business lender in Philippines, launched an AI-powered lending marketplace.

💰 Financing Announcements

1. SDAX, a Singaporean digital asset exchange, raised $50M.
2. Yup, the Indonesian consumer lending startup of Singaporean startup Fincture, raised $30M.
3. Funding Societies, a small business lender in Southeast Asia, raised an undisclosed amount.
4. Arta Finance, a wealth-tech startup, raised an undisclosed amount.
5. XenCapital, the lending arm of Xendit, a Southeast Asian payments company, raised $50M in debt, via Helicap's platform.

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