The wholly owned subsidiary of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL), on Thursday announced its collaboration with PayXpert for acceptance of the payment solutions in the UK. NIPL has signed an MoU with the PayXpert to make the Indian payment solutions available in the UK through its Android point-of-sale (POS) devices for in-store payments.

Slice, Uni and LazyPay received notice from State Bank of Mauritius India (SBM Bank India) right after RBI released its first set of guidelines on digital lending on August 10. The notice appears to be the fresh trouble for fintech players Slice, Uni and LazyPay, as the SBM is reportedly considering pausing onboarding of new customers for prepaid cards till more clarity emerges on the model.

On Thursday, the market capitalisation of the BSE-listed companies reached an all time high of more than ₹280.52 lakh crore on Thursday, helped by the recent rally in equities. The benchmark marked its fifth straight session of gains with this hike today. The 30-share BSE Sensex today ended 37.87 points or 0.06 per cent higher at 60,298. From its all time highs, Sensex is now 2,000 points away.

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Shashank Srivastava, senior executive director, marketing & sales at Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) said the semiconductor supplies have reached 95% levels; feeling a gradual recovery in the company’s monthly output. However, he said, the situation may remain the same for the entire second quarter of FY23 as chip supplied haven’t reached 100% yet.

U.S. stocks opened on a steady note on Thursday as investors were busy considering the earnings reports, jobless claims and fed’s minutes of meeting finding clues about the economic outlook and trajectory of interest rates. The S&P 500 edged 0.1% lower early Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average skids 0.3%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.1%.

Covalto, a Mexican digital and banking services platform announced to list on Nasdaq exchange through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). It was previously known as Credijusto and could generate up to $177 million of capital before expenses, Covalto said on Thursday. With this listing, Covalto will mark the first time a Mexican fintech trades publicly on a U.S. stock bourse.

Adani Group has placed an order for five flue gas desulfurization (FGD) projects worth Rs 6,163.20 crore to Power Make Projects Ltd. According to the filing, Hyderabad-based Construction and Services has placed orders for 15 FGD retrofits with sizes of 330 MW and 660 MW for the coal-based unit. These engineering, procurement and construction projects are expected to be implemented over the next 30

Unilever Professional, a unit of Hindustan Unilever (HUL) Group, is expanding its portfolio in the country. It has roped in homecare brands like Domox, Surf, Comfort and CIF for this expansion drive. Including glass cleaners, air fresheners, degreasers, kitchen hygiene products such as dishwashers, sanitizers, kitchen sanitizers, laundry care detergents and fabric conditioners for commercial use.

The dollar surged to a three-week high on Thursday after minutes from the Federal Reserve's July meeting indicated that U.S. interest rates might stay higher for longer to bring down inflation. The stronger dollar resulted in the pound briefly dipping below $1.2 in early European trading. This caused the dollar index to surge as high as 106.96, its highest since late July.

According to IntoTheBlock’s data, more Shiba Inu millionaire holders seem to be emerging. Over 497,000, or 42.58% of total addresses, own in the range of 1 to 10 million SHIB, 10-100 million SHIB range ones makes up 26.36% and those holding 0-1 million SHIB account for 23.15%. Meanwhile, Shiba Inu was a top gainer in the market on Aug. 14.

The Reserve Bank of India, in its monthly bulletin released on August 18, said that India’s headline retail inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, will ease to 5 percent by April-June of the next fiscal year. The biggest task in front of the MPC currently is to guide inflation to its target of 4 percent.

Reports show that centralised web service providers like Amazon Web Services control the majority of the 4,653 active Ethereum nodes (AWS). On the Ethereum Mainnet, 69% of hosted nodes are distributed across three large cloud service providers. Of which, more than 50% comes from Amazon Web Services (AWS), more than 15% from Hetzner, and 4.1% from OVH.

The top 1000 #ETH whales are hodling: $181M HIB(Shiba Inu), $133M ENS, $88M BIT(BitDao), $84M $MKR(Maker), $79M $LOCUS(Locus Chain), $75M LINK(Chainlink), $64M1 UNI(Uniswap), and $60M $MANA(Decentraland). This data is given out by WhaleStats, a platform that tracks the movements of crypto whales.

Federal Bank has raised the interest rates on fixed deposits below ₹2 crore. As per the bank's official website, the new interest rates are effective as of August 17, 2022. The bank now offers interest rates on fixed deposits with maturities ranging from 7 days to more than 75 months that span from 3.00% to 5.75% for the general public and 3.50% to 6.40% for senior citizens.