Housing Development Finance Corporation on Thursday said it would consider increasing the corporate lending rates but would not hike the interest rate on retail loans.
RuPay National Common Mobility Card's offline wallet can be used to make ticket payments in transit, including in metros, cabs, etc, enabling automatic, quick, cashless payments.
Bangkok is the top spot in Asia/Pacific's top 10 destinations in terms of international overnight visitor.
Let's take a look at 20 cities that attracted most international visitors.
Though chief executive officers from Google, Yahoo and Facebook have declined to attend the summit, the Apple CEO Tim Cook will address the meeting during which he will announce his intent to fold the government's cyber security recommendations into its own cyber strategy.
A "negative list" of 650,000 defaulters has been identified and registered by the India Co-operation Committee comprising MasterCard credit card issuers in the country.
Apple Pay will be available in 250,000 locations across the UK.
There were opportunities in having these people to open bank accounts and use phone banking, said Pitroda.
Wal-Mart has accused Visa of excessively high card swipe fees, several months after the retailer opted out of a class action settlement between merchants and Visa and MasterCard Inc.
Nadella has been ranked fifth among 50 global corporate heads by Fortune Magazine in its annual 'Businessperson of the Year' compilation, followed by CEO of Milwaukee-based maker of water heaters A O Smith Ajita Rajendra on the 34th spot, HDFC Bank's Managing Director Aditya Puri on the 36th position and Banga on 40th.
The Thai capital headed the 2013 list based on total projected visits by foreigners, followed by London, Paris, Singapore and New York. Istanbul and Dubai showed the strongest expected growth in the number of visitors.
At 81.2, in an index which is calculated with zero as the most pessimistic 100 as the most optimistic, India was the leader of the pack in Asia, said MasterCard Worldwide Index of Consumer Confidence.
The list has been topped by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos with Apple CEO Tim Cook coming in at the second place.
With his elevation as the CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, in whom co-founder of the microblogging giant Jack Dorsey has "bone-deep" trust, joins the growing power club of Indian-origin executives helming US-based global multinationals. Twitter's outgoing CEO Dorsey announced on Monday that 37-year old Agrawal, an Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Stanford University alumnus, will be the company's new chief executive as he stepped down after 16 years at the company that he co-founded and helmed. A report in The New York Times said Agrawal will receive an annual salary of $1 million, in addition to bonuses, restricted stock units and performance-based stock units.
The US Chamber of Commerce has written the President complaining of India's discrimination against a wide range of US exports.
As many as 641 customers across 19 banks have been duped of Rs 1.3 crore using stolen debit card data
USIBC wants Obama to raise America Inc's concerns with Manmohan Singh.
India is the second most optimistic nation.
Almost all banks that issue contactless cards provide users with a 100 per cent liability cover.
India is one of the fastest-growing countries in the plastic money segment, with close to 350 million debit cards and 19 million credit cards in circulation.
Kumar Mangalam Birla spoke high of the Modi government during the summit.
It is ranked 7th on the list of world's top-10 consumer finance firms
An analysis for the first eight months of CY18 shows that the value of RuPay and UPI transactions constitute 65.2 per cent of all transactions done through debit and credit cards, in value terms, across retail outlets by the end of August.
Asserting that the self reliant India programme will help revive the global economy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday told global business community that his government aims to transform the country through access, inclusion and empowerment while also ensuring complete data security. Addressing the World Economic Forum's online Davos Agenda Summit, where he also interacted with global business leaders, Modi also said India offers a predictable and friendly environment from tax regime to FDI norms. He said Aatmanirbhar Bharat movement is committed to global good and global supply chain while the country's digital profile has been completely transformed.
Indians are increasingly rising to the top of global corporate ladders and just 10 of them are together managing business worth over $400 billion -- an amount nearly double the total exports from India in a year.
The business confidence index stood at 145.2 points in July-September quarter of 2011 as compared to 145.3 points reported over April-June period of this year, pointing to a continuation of cautious outlook on the economy in the short term, the latest NCAER-MasterCard Worldwide Index of Business Confidence said.
E-commerce firm eBay and its online payment unit PayPal has dragged search engine Google to court over the latter's mobile payment system alleging the internet giant used trade secrets to build a rival service.
Pragmatism and flexibility is a virtue. An untethered and short-term approach to policymaking is a flaw, argues Mihir S Sharma.
In the start-up world, hitting the $1-billion mark, which accords the "Unicorn" tag, is a milestone. Enterprises typically reach the milestone only by series C or series D, or three to four funding rounds later. Zeta achieved it at the first one. On May 25, the six-year-old banking tech firm raised $250 million from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, at a post-money valuation of $1.45 billion. "This is the first time we have raised institutional money," Zeta co-founder Bhavin Turakhia beamed on the conference call. This trajectory is uncommon in start-ups.
This is the lowest level of BCI in the last six quarters, the latest NCAER-MasterCard Worldwide Index of Business Confidence said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday gifted famous Indian tea to the captains of 11 large American corporations.
Is Julian Assange a dangerous "cyber terrorist" or is he a champion of the free press?
Use a "virtual credit card" for every online transaction when you can't pay cash on delivery.
The business confidence index for Indian companies has bounced back to 156.8 points in the April-June quarter of 2010 after falling to a low of 81.6 during the same period last year.
Citigroup has appointed Shirish Apte and Stephen Bird as chief executive officers for the financial services entity's Asia-Pacific operations, with immediate effect.
The cost of acquiring new cardholders is quite low for domestic card issuers by international standards, but net credit losses are comparatively high, a study commissioned by the Indian Cards Council (ICC) revealed.
According to the MasterCard Worldwide Index of Consumer Confidence survey, a widespread optimism was visible in consumers across Asia Pacific, West Asia and Africa markets for the next six months.
All credit cards and debit cards issued by any Indian Banks (except Canara Bank) and authorised issuers of Visa and MasterCard International or any other affiliated with Visa are accepted for booking of rail reservation tickets.
