Varun Mittal

India Post Payments Bank To Be Converted Into Small Finance Bank https://www.bloombergquint.com/economy-finance/india-post-payments-bank-to-be-converted-into-sfb

Thai magnate grooms new generation for $63bn CP empire https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Asian-Family-Conglomerates/Thai-magnate-grooms-new-generation-for-63bn-CP-empire?fbclid=IwAR1YZBXoarl9-z_ePMI09xIa6oYqOXnePN_pR2dIybxGRBptCLA9jVBPdTA

Grab Partners with NTUC to Launch Microinsurance Product for Critical Illness http://fintechnews.sg/32780/insurtech/grab-ntuc-grabinsure/

SoCash Sees Participation from Vertex Ventures in its US$ 6 Million Series B Round http://fintechnews.sg/32490/funding/socash-series-b-vertex-ventures-sc-glory/

Alipay Shares Experience of Serving SMEs with Financial Institutions in Thailand - “310” lending for SMEs - loan application process takes less than three minutes, less than one second to approve and requires zero human intervention.   https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/pr/1715435/alipay-shares-experience-of-serving-smes-with-financial-institutions-in-thailand

Cashplus posts revenue record as it prepares to submit final banking licence – revenues rose 19 per cent year-on-year to £45.6m in March, while operating profits rose for the eighth consecutive year https://www.cityam.com/cashplus-posts-revenue-record-as-it-prepares-to-submit-final-banking-licence/

Robinhood Raises $323M to Democratize Finance For All — Series E Funding Led by DST Global https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2019/7/21/robinhood-raises-323m-to-democratize-finance-for-all

Bambu Raises US$10 Million in Series B Funding, third-time investor Franklin Templeton co-led the investment along with new investor PEAK6 Strategic Capital LLC, which is headquartered in Chicago. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bambu-raises-us-10-million-023000563.html

Challenger bank Judo has raised $400 million in the biggest individual private funding round by an Australian start-up, making its founders multimillionaires on paper. https://www.smh.com.au/business/small-business/challenger-bank-judo-raises-400-million-20190726-p52b43.html

How ‘FOMO’ inspired this millennial founder to build a $71 million-dollar virtual reality game https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/26/how-sandbox-vr-became-a-virtual-reality-gaming-sensation.html

India’s Jana bank left KYC customer data exposed, sensitive data on 2.6 million of its customers exposed without password protection #security #finance https://www.pymnts.com/news/b2b-payments/2019/jana-bank-kyc-data-breach/

The “Zara of small-town India” is unfazed by Walmart and Amazon #india #retail https://qz.com/india/1673330/1-india-family-mart-is-unfazed-by-amazon-walmart-flipkart/

Brazil’s Nubank to Be Valued At More Than $10 Billion in New Financing Round #fintech #vc https://www.wsj.com/articles/brazils-nubank-to-be-valued-at-more-than-10-billion-in-new-financing-round-11564100322

India’s 30-year-old MyMoneyMantra raises $15M to scale its financial services marketplace #financial #fintech https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/17/indias-30-year-old-mymoneymantra-raises-15m-to-scale-its-financial-services-marketplace/

Estonia's new e-residency security focus: 'You can't launder money with a digital ID' #digital #identity https://www.zdnet.com/article/estonias-new-e-residency-security-focus-you-cant-launder-money-with-a-digital-id/

This 850+ Employee Company Works 100% Remotely. Here’s How They Make It Work. #digital # https://www.battery.com/powered/this-850-employee-company-works-100-remotely-heres-how-they-make-it-work/

How Parle plans to capture the premium category - The home-grown biscuit brand looks to get inside the customer’s mind as it steps outside the boundaries of its mass-market identity https://m.rediff.com/business/special/how-parle-plans-to-capture-the-premium-category/20180808.htm