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Kuwait’s Boubyan Bank implements Intellect’s digital banking platform

AIMPWAMarch 3, 2025

Boubyan Bank, a leading Kuwaiti Islamic bank, has successfully completed the second phase implementation of Intellect Design Arena’s eMACH.ai Digital Transaction Banking (DTB) solution, the companies announced today. The new platform aims to enhance the bank’s transaction banking capabilities across multiple sectors, including oil and gas, telecom, fintech, real estate, and trading services. The shares...

Nisus Finance’s Dubai arm appoints Houlihan Lokey for GCC fund

AIMPWAMarch 3, 2025

Nisus Finance Services, an investment management firm specialising in structured finance, has informed that its Dubai-based fund advisor Nisus Finance Investment Consultancy FZCO has retained Houlihan Lokey, a leading global investment bank to assist in raising financing for the Nisus High Yield Growth Fund Closed-Ended IC and its associated projects. Houlihan Lokey, a leading financial...

Political meme coins under scrutiny after $LIBRA debacle shakes investor trust

AIMPWAMarch 3, 2025

The collapse of the $LIBRA token has ignited concerns over the instability of politically branded cryptocurrencies, as investors lost millions in what blockchain analysis determined was a “coordinated rug-pull”. The scandal has triggered calls for stricter crypto regulations, increased scrutiny of political involvement in digital assets, and raising alarms over the broader risks posed by...

Bitcoin jumps 20% as Trump reveals strategic crypto reserve

AIMPWAMarch 3, 2025

Bitcoin was trading up a fifth from last week’s lows on Monday and several other cryptocurrencies that U.S. President Donald Trump said would be included in a new U.S. strategic reserve also rallied sharply. Trump said in a post on Truth Social that his January executive order on digital assets would create a stockpile of...

Karnataka Bank launches 2 products to mark its founders’ day

AIMPWAMarch 3, 2025

Karnataka Bank launched two new products — ‘KBL Stri’ and ‘KBL One Family Banking Programme’ — to mark its 101st founders’ day on Tuesday. According to the bank, ‘KBL Stri’ is a savings bank account designed for women to define their own success whether they are home-makers, professionals or entrepreneurs. ‘KBL One Family...

Health cover premium crosses ₹1 lakh crore mark in first 10 months of FY25

AIMPWAMarch 3, 2025

Health insurance segment is continuing to drive growth in the non-life industry and has crossed the milestone of ₹1 lakh crore mark in the current fiscal year ending January 2025 compared to the same period last year. As per the latest Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) and the General Insurance Council, health premium reached...

Depositors at NICB on tenterhooks, worried over how they will pay salaries

AIMPWAMarch 3, 2025

Saeed Ahmad Siddiqui, Secretary, Sarla CHS Ltd, Versova is distraught. He wonders how he will pay the society’s water and electricity bills and the staff salaries. Equally worried is a Mumbai-based transport operator who is concerned that he may not be able to pay his employees. They are among the many depositors hit hard by RBI’s...

SEBI proposes tighter security for investors’ trading accounts

AIMPWAMarch 2, 2025

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has proposed a SIM-binding mechanism to prevent unauthorised transactions in investors’ trading or demat accounts. This mechanism—similar to that of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payments — will ensure that a user can login to their trading account once the unique client code (UCC) matches with the linked...

IRDAI permits one-time UPI mandate for buying life, health cover

AIMPWAMarch 2, 2025

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has permitted a one-time mandate for blocking the amount towards premium through Unified Payments Interface (UPI) mandate for issue of life and health insurance policies. As per the existing norms, no premium deposit/ proposal deposit is required to be paid to the insurer along with the...

CCI approves amalgamation of Chaitanya India Fin Credit and Svatantra Holdings into Svatantra Microfin

AIMPWAMarch 2, 2025

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved amalgamation involving four entities within the Svatantra Group. The proposed amalgamation involves Svatantra Holdings Pvt Ltd (SHPL), a core investment company focused on equity, preference shares, and securities, incorporated in 2018; Svatantra Microfin Pvt Ltd (SMPL), a Non-Banking Financial Company-Micro Finance Institution (NBFC-MFI) providing microfinance and personal...

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I’m a 62-year-old widow looking to downsize. Should I take out a HELOC and buy a condo?

AIMPWAMarch 14, 2025

“Condos in my area are scarce and often sell the day they hit the market. I could get a line of credit using my house as collateral.” Source link

Startups Weekly: Founders may be raising less, but deals haven’t been lacking

AIMPWAMarch 14, 2025

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week showed more optimism among startups than in other corners of the world, with entrepreneurs feeling confident enough to acquire other companies, raise fresh funding, and...

Budget 2025 lands softly—markets hesitate as capex slows

AIMPWAMarch 14, 2025

More concerning is this has been tagged as a “structural slowdown,” caused by slowing government capital expenditure, weak manufacturing, sluggish exports, and lacklustre private investment. Read this | Budget to offer blueprint of reforms under Modi 3.0 Naturally, expectations from the budget were sky-high, and the markets reflected this optimism, with the Nifty 50 breaching...

China is reportedly keeping DeepSeek under close watch

AIMPWAMarch 14, 2025

China appears to think homegrown AI startup DeepSeek could become a notable tech success story for the country. After DeepSeek’s sudden rise to fame in January with the release of its open “reasoning” model, R1, the company is now operating under new, tighter government-influenced restrictions, according to The Information. Some of the company’s employees have...

Budget eyes agriculture, MSMEs, other labour-intensive sectors for job creation

AIMPWAMarch 14, 2025

The government’s focus on creating jobs for informal and gig workers comes at a time when the economy has been struggling to create enough formal jobs. Therefore, the government is leaning on agriculture, manufacturing, micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), and startups to generate more employment for the country’s burgeoning youth. For instance, under ‘Building...

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