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OpenAI launches into its boring is beautiful phase
LIKE HAVING THE hottest A-lister on your arm, being a company merely associated with the OpenAI hype machine can send your street cred soaring these days.
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October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Axis Bank may enter M&A financing in a big way: MD
AXIS BANK MD and CEO Amitabh Chaudhry has said that the bank plans to enter the merger and acquisition financing in a big way following the Reserve Bank of India's(RBI) proposal fora framework for domestic banks to finance acquisitions.
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October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
RBI proposes changes in banks’ credit risk norms
CENTRAL BANK ISSUES EXPECTED CREDIT LOSS FRAMEWORK DRAFT
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October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Biometric authentication for UPI begins
THE NATIONAL PAYMENTS Corporation of India (NPCI) introduced biometric authentication for transactions on the unified payments interface (UPI) at the Global Fintech Fest here on Tuesday.
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October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Demat account additions at three-year low in H1
THE NUMBER OF demat accounts added during April-September 2025 stood at 14.62 million — the lowest in the past three years, data from CDSL and NSDL showed.
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October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
UPI gets biometric authentication
THE SOLUTION LEVERAGES UIDAI's FaceRD App for Aadhaar-based facial verification, eliminating the need to manage multiple OTPs or card details enhancing both convenience and security.
1 min |
October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
The luxury moment
INDIA'S LUXURY APPETITE has never been stronger.
2 min |
October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
PayPal launches new interoperable wallet
THE FUTURE OF money will be built on domestic digital wallets, said PayPal CEO Alex Chriss on Tuesday.
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October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Political storm in flood-hit Bengal
THE POLITICAL ROW over the attack on two BJP leaders in flood and landslide-hit north Bengal flared up on Tuesday, as the Centre sought answers from the TMC government and the saffron camp alleged that \"jihadi elements\" were behind the assault, even as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met injured BJP MP Khagen Murmu in hospital.
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October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Netflix partners with IICT & Ficci
NETFLIX INDIA HAS partnered with the Indian Institute of Creative Technology (IICT) and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) to support students in the coun-
1 min |
October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Starmer leads UK team to India to tout trade pact
PRIME MINISTER KEIR Starmer will lead a delegation of more than 100 British business, academic and cultural leaders to India, as he seeks to deepen commercial ties between the two countries after signing a long-awaited free-trade agreement.
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October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
JLR sales fall 17% in Sept quarter on cyber hit
JAGUAR LAND ROVER on Tuesday reported a 17% year-on-year decline in retail sales for the second quarter ended September 30, hit by a production pause due to a cyber attack.
1 min |
October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Goyal: Qatari firms keen to partner with Indian firms
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said there is a lot of excitement in Qatar about forging partnerships with Indian businesses, not only for investments in the two countries but also for collaborating on third-country projects.
2 min |
October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Oil slips on Opec+ output hike, supply glut fears
OIL PRICES FELL on Tuesday as investors considered a smaller than expected increase to Opec+ output in November against signs of a potential supply glut.
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October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Bajaj Finserv rebrands insurance businesses
BAJAJ FINSERV ON Tuesday announced the rebranding of its life and general insurance subsidiaries as Bajaj Life Insurance and Bajaj General Insurance with immediate effect.
1 min |
October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
World Bank ups India's FY26 growth projection to 6.5%
THE WORLD BANK has raised India’s growth projection by 20 basis points (bps) to 6.5% for the current financial year due to better-than-expected performance in the first quarter but trimmed the projection for next year by 20 bps to 6.3%, citing the impact of a steep 50% US tariff on Indian goods.
1 min |
October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
No hurry for CBDC rollout: RBI dy guv
THE RESERVE BANK of India is in no hurry for a nationwide roll out for the central bank digital currency (CBDC), deputy governor T Rabi Sankar said on the sidelines at the Global Fintech Fest on Tuesday.
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October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Central bank widens ambit of Ombudsman scheme
Central, state co-op banks now included
1 min |
October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
US-based trio wins Physics Nobel for quantum mechanics
THREE SCIENTISTS WERE awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries that are helping advance quantum computing and sensors.
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October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
‘Regulations that tie the hands of audit firms need to go’
An inter-ministerial group led by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) is reviewing India’s audit regulations with an aim to ease them. Grant Thornton Bharat CEO Vishesh Chandiok talks to Manu Kaushik about the progress of this initiative, and the regulatory changes required. Excerpts:
3 min |
October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
RBI must reform deposit insurance rates
Calibrating premiums to actual risk will empower banks, protect depositors, and accelerate economic momentum by reducing cost of doing business
3 min |
October 08, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Immune system researchers win Medicine Nobel
AMERICAN SCIENTISTS MARY Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for work shedding light on how the immune system spares healthy cells, creating openings for possible newautoimmune disease and cancer treatments.
2 min |
October 07, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Adani Green gets $250 mn in first offshore loan since probe
ADANI GREEN ENERGY, controlled by billionaire Gautam Adani, signed a deal to raise around $250 million from a group of global lenders, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the unit’s first foreign currency loan since an indictment by the US Department of Justice.
1 min |
October 07, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
India Inc likely to see a modest Q2
Holdback on spending for GST cut, heavy rains to dampen earnings
1 min |
October 07, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Flipkart exits Aditya Birla Lifestyle in ₹998-cr deal
WALMART-OWNED FLIPKART on Monday sold its entire 6% shareholding in Aditya Birla Lifestyle (ABLBL) in a ₹998crore bulk deal.
1 min |
October 07, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Strong growth momentum for TaMo
PV DIVISION TARGETS DOUBLE-DIGIT MARGINS DRIVEN BY STRONG MIX
1 min |
October 07, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Import of pulses may fall 40% in FY26 on robust stocks, crop
INDIA'S PULSES IMPORTS in the current fiscal are likely to decline by 39% to around 4.5 million tonne (MT) in FY26, from a record 7.34 MT in 2024-25, trade sources said, citing adequate carry forward stocks and robust crop prospects.
1 min |
October 07, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Bharti Telecom mulls ₹15K-cr bond deal
SUNIL MITTAL'S BHARTI Telecom is considering to offer about ₹15,000 crore ($1.7 billion) of bonds as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter.
1 min |
October 07, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
US govt shutdown: Pressure on Democrats
THE WHITE HOUSE tightened its pressure on congressional Democrats as a US government shutdown lurched into a second week, saying it would give the holdouts another chance to agree to the spending bill before initiating mass firings of federal workers.
1 min |
October 07, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Kotak Bank: Outlook brightens
STRUCTURAL CHALLENGES CONTINUE TO WEIGH ON THE LENDER
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