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By Gilles Guillaume

Mint. The rural and semi-urban India focussed Mahindra Finance is keeping a sharp eye on its margins as it looks to building a prolific, diversified financial services business, Raul Rebello, MD & CEO designate told Mint in an exclusive interaction.

ABFRL), on Wednesday announced a joint venture with high-end Parisian footwear brand Christian Louboutin, strengthening its play in India’s small but growing luxury goods market. This collaboration envisages the transfer of the current Indian business into a newly incorporated subsidiary of ABFRL where the partners will hold equal stake. The move follows ABFRL’s 2022 announcement to bring luxury department store chain Galeries Lafayette to India via large stores and a dedicated e-commerce platform.

Twitch, the popular video streaming service, will shut down its services in South Korea next year, the company said on Tuesday, after struggling for years with the high costs of operating in the country. Twitch was once one of the most popular platforms for gamers in South Korea, even as it competed with domestic services like AfreecaTV and giants such as YouTube, analysts say. The service, owned by Amazon, draws about 35 million visitors a day worldwide, according to the company.

Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Wednesday said its Gujarat-based unit has crossed 30 lakh cumulative production milestone. Suzuki Motor Gujarat (SMG) has surpassed the milestone within a span of around 6 years and 11 months since commencing operations in February 2017, MSI said in a statement.

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La.— Michael Sabel and his partner, both industry novices, have made a fortune virtually overnight by building from scratch one of the world’s largest gas exporters. They have also made some powerful enemies. Here at this sprawling facility spanning about 630 acres in the wetlands outside New Orleans, Sabel said his company, Venture Global LNG, is on pace to leapfrog competitors and rival Qatar as one of the world’s top exporters of liquefied natural gas by 2030.

GoKwik said the Black Friday weekend saw a 36% increase in orders with gross merchandise value surging 57% increase on its network. Beauty and cosmetics saw a 2.5 times surge in orders followed by home decor 94.9%, electronics at 62.5%, health and nutrition by 61% and fashion at 41%.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) will continue to develop a new set of products that comply with U.S. government regulations involving exports of high-end chips to China, CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday.

Honasa Consumer Venture Capital Fund Fireside Venture Investments has sold partial stake in Mamaearth parent Honasa Consumer through bulk deals on Tuesday. Bank of India Bank of India has opened the qualified institutional placement book for bidding of shares by qualified institutional buyers. The state-owned lender has set the floor price for the QIP issue at Rs 105.42 a share. Dalmia Bharat Dalmia Bharat appointed Puneet Yadu Dalmia as Managing Director and CEO of the company for a period of 5 years with effect from December 8. SBI State Bank of India said that it will acquire a 20% stake in SBI Pension Funds Pvt Ltd for Rs 229.52 crore. Union Bank of India State-owned Union Bank of India has selected global tech major Accenture to accelerate its data-driven transformation. Infosys Infosys said it has received a communication for collection of penalty from an overseas authority. Bharti Airtel Bharti Airtel said it has received an order for penalty of Rs 3.95 lakh under the CGST Act.

Mint reported that Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s daughter Harshita became a victim of an online scam. She tried to sell an old sofa set at an online second-hand marketplace but was, instead, duped at ₹34,000. Several such cases have come to the fore of late.

Perfios, which provides technology services to financial institutions, is starting to see demand from human resource (HR) firms and ecommerce enterprises, said its chief executive, Sabyasachi Goswami. “There are our onboarding and decisioning (decision-making) capabilities being used in HR and ecommerce industries…These (adjacent industries) can be very significant (opportunity), provided we focus on them,” Goswami told ET.

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₹40 crore) in a pre-Series A round led by Prime Venture Partners. Existing investors Gemba Capital and Varanium NexGen Fintech Fund also participated. The new funds will be used to enhance the company’s AceN tech platform, which connects small, rural businesses with NBFCs and banks, and scale up its distribution and service delivery model, the startup said.

BEIJING — A new group of Asia-based companies are contemplating initial public offerings in the U.S., where international listings were once driven mostly by Chinese startups.

By Greg Bensinger

(Reuters) -Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne (NYSE:S) on Tuesday forecast third-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates and raised its annual revenue outlook, as cybersecurity spending remains strong.

Box (BOX) shares dropped more than 11% after-hours today following the company’s reported Q3 results, with EPS of $0.36 coming in worse than the consensus estimate of $0.38. Revenue grew 5% year-over-year to $262 million, missing the consensus estimate of $262.37M.

The momentum of cryptocurrency regulation in the United States continues to intensify, with the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) asserting its readiness to call out defaulting businesses.

As institutions regain interest in both Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) as investment assets, they’re also exploring how the blockchain can redefine how finance is done using traditional assets.

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