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Sunday, October 26, 2025
TopicFinancial services

Topic: Financial services

Why financial service providers, policy makers must evolve to better serve low-income households

Low-income households work with irregular income inflows, resulting in shrinking financial planning horizon and necessitating frequent decisions in response to frequent changes.

Planned as the next Singapore in 2012, Gujarat’s Gift city still remains a work in progress

Conceptualised in 2009 & foundation stone laid in 2012, Gujarat International Finance Tec (Gift) city remains a patchwork of state-of-the-art facilities & under-construction centres.

Need to increase credit flow to businesses to meet needs of growing economy, says PM Modi

Addressing a webinar on Budget proposals relating to the financial sector Friday, Prime Minister Modi also said that public sector presence in banking and insurance is required.

IIFL bets big on India’s ailing financial services sector

India’s financial services industry is grappling with a 17-month credit crisis, in what has come to be dubbed as India’s 'mini-Lehman moment'.

PayTM helping SoftBank wade into Japan’s crowded digital payments space

Dozens of employees of the Indian startup are said to be working in Tokyo on getting the service up and running.

On Camera

Be soft, smile more, never text first—‘feminine energy’ is men’s new obsession

Uncertified dating gurus are teaching women to be suggestive, mysterious, and never loud. For some of us, this level of performance is simply unachievable. We might as well give up and become Brahma Kumaris.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.