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Warburg-backed Perfios weighing $500 million IPO

Perfios Software Solutions Pvt is considering a $500 million initial public offering (IPO) in India. The IPO could value the company at $2 billion. Perfios provides software-as-a-service to banks, insurers, and financial services firms in India, the Middle East, and southeast Asia.

Zomato, Stripe secure final RBI nod for online payment aggregator

Zomato, in a stock exchange filing, said it will operate the online payment aggregator through its wholly-owned subsidiary Zomato Payments Private Limited. In December last year, the RBI gave payment gateways Razorpay and Cashfree final approval to operate as payment aggregators, paving the way for them to onboard new merchants, after a year-long embargo.

Groww to stop US stock trading services, app hit by technical glitches

Stock broking platform Groww has stopped offering services for US stocks due to a tax collected at source. Around 2,000 users who joined in 2023 were still using Groww for these investments. They now have the option to migrate to other platforms or withdraw their investments. Groww is the largest stock trading platform in India …

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Pastor accused of $3M crypto scam says he got help from ‘the Lord’

Investigators said the Regalados, who ran a cryptocurrency marketplace called the Kingdom Wealth Exchange, used at least $1.3 million of those funds to support a lavish lifestyle that included tens of thousands of dollars spent on vacations, jewelry, luxury handbags, cosmetic dentistry, clothes and home renovations. The two, who shut down the exchange Nov. 1, …

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Cryptoverse: Will bitcoin behave better on Wall Street?

“This is a logical, nearly-inevitable evolution as a newborn security with a wildly uncertain value and price matures into a mainstream asset with a million punters punting,” said Brent Donnelly, a currency trader and president of Spectra Markets. The total value of bitcoin traded on cryptocurrency exchanges is about $500 million a day on average, …

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