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🐦🏆 Tweets of the Week

🇮🇳 India

📰 Market Updates

1. Central banks of India and Sri Lanka signed a partnership to extend INR payment acceptance via UPI in Sri Lanka.
2. Dilip Asbe, the CEO of NPCI, reportedly claimed that he expects UPI to grow its user base to 600-650mm in 3 years.
3. Central banks of India and Indonesia are reportedly integrating their respective real time payments platforms.
4. Fino Payments Bank is reportedly planning to apply to convert to a Small Finance Bank.
5. EaseBuzz, a payment gateway startup, reportedly processed $8.5bn (INR 70K cr) in payments value in FY23 and generated $29mm (INR 236cr) in revenue.
6. Jio Financial Services was spun out of its parent company Reliance.
7. OneCard and WintWealth applied for NBFC licenses.

🚀 Product Launches

1. Enkash launched Olympus, a payable, receivable and reconciliation platform.
2. PhonePe launched a health insurance product with monthly premium payments.

💰 Financing Announcements

1. Renewbuy, an insurance marketplace startup, raised $40mm.
2. Bureau*, an onboarding orchestration startup, raised $4.5mm.

ACQUISITIONS:

1. Decentro, a fintech infrastructure startup, acquired NeoWise, a debt collections platform.

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🌏 Asia

📰 Market Updates

1. Atome signed a partnership with TikTok Shop for BNPL options.
2. Grab invested $101mm in GXS Bank, the Singaporean digital bank formed as a JV between Grab and Singtel.
3. The Philippine central bank released the "2022 Status of Digital Payments" stating that retail digital payments consisted of 42% of total payments volume and 40% of total payments value in 2022.

💰 Financing Announcements

1. Finture, a Singapore Company that operates Yup an Indonesian BNPL app, raised $15mm.
2. Thunes, a B2B payments infrastructure startup, raised $12mm.
3. Salmon, a Philippine neo bank, raised $20mm (debt).

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