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On Friday, the leading cryptocurrency Bitcoin, recently witnessed a minor retreat, touching the $43,500 mark, down by over 1% on Friday. The dip comes amidst a backdrop of significant developments, including the closure of an $18 million fundraising round by Babylon Chain aimed at bolstering Bitcoin staking initiatives.

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India has a two-to-three year window to capitalise on the global strategy of de-risking from China and the government must come up with a set of policies and programs that make doing business and shifting to India not just attractive but easier also, NITI Aayog vice chairman BVR Subrahmanyam said. “In the next 15 to 20 year time span, India has an opportunity in manufacturing. But the opportunity and the window for India is at best two to three years because supply chains are unwinding, becoming short term and looking for new geographies.

The year received $7 billion in total funding until December 5, a significant decline of 72 per cent, compared to $25 billion in the previous year.

Digant Haria, Co-Founder, GreenEdge Wealth, says “PSU banks still have a lot of juice left. With this election verdict and chances of FII flows turning back, PSUs offer a much better upside just because they are not FII over owned. ICICI and HDFCs of the world are huge companies, over owned by FIIs. We still have to depend on a lot of FII flows but the PSU banks are where the next leg of move can happen. That has been a place where we are placing our bets recently.” How are you reading into the movement of some of the largecap stocks because while the mid and the smallcaps no doubt have fired up in this recent rally, largecaps have been moving slow and steady? What is the view on some of the marquee names within the banking space and the other largecaps which are yet to play catch up? In the whole banking space, largecaps were the only ones which did not participate. The big reason was that there was large FII selling in the last one year and we had more than Rs 1 lakh crore getting sold out of this sector. So despite good results, good outlook, good credit cycle, best ever ROAs, everything was in place for a rally in the banking sector, but stocks like ICICI, Axis, HDFC practically did nothing for a very long time.

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RBI plans to set up a regulatory framework for digital lending apps or loan web aggregators to make taking of loans more consumer centric and transparent. The RBI governor, as part of the announcement today after the monetary policy review, said that concerns regarding the functioning of loan web aggregators and loan products that harm customers have come to its notice. Therefore, it proposes to set up a regulatory framework to enhance customer centricity and safety for customers. As per the statement issued, «The Reserve Bank had accepted, vide its Press Release dated August 10, 2022, the recommendation of the Working Group on Digital Lending (Chairman: Shri Jayant Kumar Dash) to come up with a regulatory framework for web-aggregators of loan products (WALP). WALP entails aggregation of loan offers from multiple lenders on an electronic platform which enables the borrowers to compare and choose the best available option to avail loan from one of the available lenders. Based on the recommendation of the Working Group, it has been decided to bring such loan aggregation services offered by the Lending Service Providers (LSPs) under a comprehensive regulatory framework. The framework will focus on enhancing the transparency in the operations of WALPs, increase customer centricity and enable the borrowers to make informed choices. The detailed guidelines will be issued separately.»

₹42 a piece on Friday, December 8. The price bank for the IPO stood at ₹16-18 a share and Net Avenue Technologies share was listed 133.3% higher. Net Avenue Technologies bidding started from November 30, 2023 and ended on December 4, 2023.

household spending has increased for 58% of families, indicating a positive trend in consumption. However, while the overall score dipped slightly from last month, it remains at a healthy +50, showcasing the continued growth in household spending. Spending on essential items, such as personal care and household items, has increased for 49% of families.

Amnish Aggarwal, Head-Research, Prabhudas Lilladher, says “there are some sectors or stocks that represent the multi-year trends; one clearly is capital goods which benefits from the recent state elections results as the uncertainty with regards to the next Lok Sabha elections has got reduced. So the capital goods companies, whether they are on the engineering side, railway side, defence should continue to do well. We like Siemens Hindustan, Aeronautics, and Carborundum looks good. The entire capital goods is one pack which looks very interesting to us. ” What is your view on HUL and the rest of the FMCG players like ITC? Do you think in terms of the sector churn that we are seeing, the FMCG companies will not be in those top three, top four bets that investors would be looking at actively? We have been having an underperformer in our model portfolio.

Many close observers of India’s economy have been concerned that inequality could slow down its rise if a large proportion of the population gets left behind. Could we already be running into speed-breakers in some sectors? Take internet penetration, which till some years ago was seen to be fast bridging our digital divide. No longer.

More Chinese cities will give away digital yuan tokens and discount vouchers this month, as the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) looks to spur CBDC adoption.

AI in Indian languages with launches lined up in the coming months, but experts said it may take 3-5 years for India to have its own ChatGPT equivalent. Gurgaon-headquartered startup Soket Labs is eyeing the release of its foundation multilingual large language model (LLM) ‘Pragna’ by Q2 next year, founder and CEO Abhishek Upperwal told ET. A 7 billion parameter version of Pragna, trained on India’s 23 scheduled languages and English, will be released open source, followed by a 30 billion parameter model a few months thereafter, he said.

unsecured loans, industry executives said. This follows the central bank’s strictures in mid-November requiring financial institutions to increase risk weights, or capital outlay, for unsecured consumer loans by 25%.

Global Capability Centres (GCCs) in the country has led to a 40-50% increase in the number of global and senior level roles based out of India in the last five years, numbers sourced by ET show. On an overall basis, an estimated 300,000-400,000 jobs are likely to be created in the GCC sector in the next 2-3 years, according to Deloitte estimates. In the fourth and concluding part of the Global to Local series, ET looks at the maturity and cultural shift of the talent ecosystem of GCCs and how it is driving the shift towards more global roles within Indian GCC leadership.

Russian digital settlement exchange Exved has officially debuted with the goal of empowering local legal entities to conduct cross-border digital payment services using Tether’s USDT.

Terraform Labs’ founder, Do Kwon, is set to be extradited to the U.S. following months of speculation, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal released Thursday.

Twenty months after the Bank of Canada launched one of the most intense interest-rate hiking cycles on record, the bond market is indicating that cuts are on the way.

Sotheby’s has announced the start of its inaugural Bitcoin Ordinals sale, an online auction showcasing three items from the BitcoinShrooms NFT collection.

Crypto exchange One Trading will launch its new trading venue in the next few weeks.

The House Committee on Energy has voted unanimously to approve a new piece of legislation entitled the “Deploying American Blockchains Act.”