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Pratik Bhakta

Bangalore

Deputy Editor at Times Internet

Everything fintech at The Economic Times. Founding member of The CapTable at YourStory and before that with Moneycontrol.

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  • 1 week ago | flipboard.com | Pratik Bhakta

    6 hours agoCrisis-hit Gensol defaults on May payment of BluSmart cabs loansGensol Engineering, promoted by the founders of electric mobility firm BluSmart, has defaulted on payment of around ₹4 crore to its pass-through …4 days agoWomen drivers pick up the pieces after BluSmart shutdownFor Priya Thakur, 24, a driving job at BluSmart opened a gateway to financial independence. However, her joy was short-lived.

  • 1 month ago | auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com | Pratik Bhakta

    ​BluSmart sold more than ₹100 crore of unlisted, unsecured corporate bonds to high-net-worth individuals as well as some retail investors in the past one year, mostly facilitated by fintech platforms like Yubi, Centricity and Klub. Sebi is not in favour of allowing retail investors to have exposure to such products which are typically high risk.

  • 1 month ago | flipboard.com | Pratik Bhakta

    8 hours ago Gensol Fraud Exposed: How Jaggi Brothers Misused Loan Money For Personal Use | BluSmart Halts Ops Gensol Fraud Exposed: How Jaggi Brothers Misused Loan Money For Personal Use | BluSmart Halts Ops #gensolfraud #sebi #blusmart #jaggi #hwnews To get the latest news updates at your fingertips, download the HW News Shorts app: https://onelink.to/85hk86 Support independent journalism by subscribing to HW News English Premium Newsletter: https://hwnews.in/subscribe-us/ To Join Youtube...

  • 2 months ago | economictimes.indiatimes.com | Pratik Bhakta |Samidha Sharma

    India strikes hard! New Delhi bans all imports from PakistanHow Pakistan is preparing for the worst as India weighs responseIf India attacks Pakistan, China & B'desh should seize 7 NE states, says Yunus' aide

  • 2 months ago | economictimes.indiatimes.com | Pratik Bhakta

    The digital payments industry is staring at a loss of around Rs 500-600 crore as the government has withdrawn the subsidy support on RuPay debit cards, according to two people in the know.In a cabinet note released on Wednesday, the government said it has allocated Rs 1,500 crore for subsidy on UPI payments for small merchants only in FY25.The fintech industry was hoping that the allocation would be around Rs 5,500 crore, given that it was Rs 3,681 crore for the previous year.The government...

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