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May

India’s tighter scrutiny of Chinese investment could hurt fintechs

Chinese investment into Indian fintechs is set to slow following New Delhi’s decision to restrict foreign investment from countries with which it shares a land border and more carefully scrutinize new portfolio investors from mainland China and Hong Kong. India’s immediate reason to target foreign investment is to forestall opportunistic…

May

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How will the Facebook-Jio deal shake up India’s digital payments sector?

Internet giants outside of China are trying to create a super app like WeChat, which users rely on widely to chat, buy goods on and offline, and bank. The payments application is the stickiest: Once WeChat became a preferred digital wallet, it had a captive audience for a much wider…

Mar

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WhatsApp Pay closes in on long anticipated India launch

The India digital payments market makes for a fascinating contrast to China’s. Unlike China, India has allowed foreign tech giants to compete on a mostly level playing field against its homegrown firms. In fact, Chinese tech giants are strategic investors in some of those Indian fintechs. Competition in the surging…

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