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🇮🇳 India

📰 Market Updates

• Yubi, a debt marketplace company, partnered with SBI to enable co-lending to priority sector.
• EarlySalary rebranded as Fibe.
• Cashfree received in-principal approval from RBI for its Payment Aggregator license.

🚀 Product Launches

• Samsung partnered with Axis Bank to launch a co-branded credit card.
• CRED launched a UPI-based, scan to pay product.

💰 Financing Announcements

1. Signzy, a digital onboarding infrastructure startup, raised $26mm.
2. Monnai, a consumer insights infrastructure startup, raised $3.1mm.
3. M2P*, a banking and payments infrastructure startup, raised $2.7mm from VISA.

ACQUISITION:

1. Razorpay acquired Poshvine, a rewards and loyalty startup.

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🌏 Asia

📰 Market Updates

• DBS partnered with FinLync to roll out plug-and-play APIs for corporate treasurers.
• Buy2Sell, a Vietnamese ecommerce company, partnered with Mastercard for cross-border payments.
• Binance is looking to re-enter the Japanese market and is applying for an operating license in the country.
• Moolahgo, a Singaporean multi-currency payments company, launched a product that lets users send money to Indonesian bank accounts.
• PasarPolis, an Indonesian insurance startup, claimed to have issued one billion policies to 80mm customers till 2021.
• StorePay, a Singaporean BNPL startup, launched its product in Indonesia.
• Grab plans to launch its digital bank in Indonesia and Malaysia in 2023.

💰 Financing Announcements

1. YAS MicroInsurance, a Hong King based insurance startup, raised $4.5mm.
2. MXGlobal, a digital asset exchange startup, raised $1.6mm.

ACQUISITIONS:

1. KakaoPay, the South Korean digital payments company owned by messaging company Kakao Corp. acquired a minority stake in OKPOS, a POS acceptance company that accounts for 40% of South Korea's POS payments market.

🌏 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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