At 9:01am this Monday, something quietly historic happened on the National Stock Exchange. For the first time, options-crazed traders didn’t dive straight into live futures prices at the opening bell – they had to watch a call auction screen instead.NSE’s new 15-minute pre-open session for equity derivatives went live on December 8, in what traders … Read more
Today, Gemini Space Station, Inc. (Gemini) (NASDAQ:GEMI) announced that Gemini Titan, LLC (Titan), an affiliate, received a Designated Contract Market (DCM) license from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which will allow Gemini to begin offering prediction markets to U.S. customers. Gemini first applied for a DCM license on March 10, 2020. “Today’s approval marks … Read more
Bajaj Finance has said that its voice bots will disburse Rs 5,300 crore of loans in FY26 – its first full year of operations. This channel will be completely taken over by AI agents as part of its 2026-30 long-range strategy which has AI as the backbone of its growth plans that links targets directly … Read more
Digital payments giant PhonePe announced on Thursday, 13 November, a strategic collaboration with OpenAI to integrate the popular generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) model ChatGPT into its ecosystem. With this move, AI-powered assistance will become widely accessible to millions of Indian users across the payments platform’s ecosystem, including the PhonePe app, PhonePe for Business, and the … Read more
U.S. payment firms Visa and Mastercard are nearing a settlement with merchants by lowering fees stores pay and giving them more power to reject certain credit cards, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday (November 8, 2025), citing people familiar with matter. Visa and Mastercard would trim interchange fees, typically 2% to 2.5% per transaction, … Read more
PL Capital, a financial services organisation that’s part of the Prabhudas Lilladher Group, has appointed Zarin Daruwala as group chief executive, effective October 13. “Zarin’s arrival marks an important milestone in our mission to build an enduring, institutionally governed organisation–one that combines heritage and trust with capabilities and scale,” said Amisha Vora, chairperson and managing … Read more
Fintech company Pine Labs, backed by Peak XV, is targeting a listing by the second week of November. The company’s $700 million initial public offering (IPO) is expected to open in the first week of November, according to three people familiar with the plans. “The company is likely to go public between November 10-15. The … Read more
Zerodha founder and CEO Nithin Kamath has warned that a continuation of the ongoing stock market headwinds may force his brokerage house, which has long pioneered a free platform for its millions of users, may have to start charging fees. In a recent blog, Nithin Kamath said that Zerodha had suffered a significant 40 per … Read more
International Holding Company (IHC), a leading Abu-Dhabi based global investment company is investing Rs 8,850 cr ($1 Bn) into Sammaan. Transaction comprises of 33 cr equity shares at Rs 139/ share (18% discount to previous day’s price) aggregating to Rs 4,587 crore; and 30.7 cr warrants, convertible into equity shares, for Rs 4,263 crore. Above … Read more