November 17, 2021
NEW DELHI—India has temporarily shut down five coal-fired power plants around the capital New Delhi as part of its drive to combat air pollution, according to an order from the federal environment ministry panel on air pollution. The Commission for …
November 16, 2021
Yashish Dahiya’s PB Fintech Ltd. climbed 23% on its first day of trading after raising $761 million in an IPO. Now comes the hard part. “Now, we have to deliver,” the founder and chief executive officer said just hours after …
November 15, 2021
BENGALURU – Paytm’s $2.5 billion initial public offering (IPO), India’s largest, was oversubscribed at the close of bidding on Wednesday, although investors showed less enthusiasm than for some other tech firms that have ridden the country’s IPO boom. The company, …
November 3, 2021
Insurance broker Willis Towers Watson announced the signing of an agreement to acquire the remaining 51% shares from Anemone Holdings Private Ltd and Rohit Jain in Willis Towers Watson (WTW) India. WTW currently owns 49% of Willis Towers Watson India …
November 2, 2021
China’s transformation from a financial-technology backwater into a $46 trillion-a-year global leader in digital payments left most international investors watching in awe from the sidelines. Now India is undergoing its own fintech revolution, and the race is on to grab …
October 29, 2021
General Atlantic and local private equity firm Multiples Private Equity led a $225 million funding in Acko General Insurance, valuing the Indian online insurer at $1.1 billion. Existing investors including Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Lightspeed, a global technology …
October 18, 2021
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the Rolling Meadow, Ill.-based broker, announced it has completed its acquisition of Mumbai, India-based Edelweiss Gallagher Insurance Brokers Ltd. Financial details of the transaction, which was first announced in July, will not be disclosed. Gallagher …
October 8, 2021
India is considering a proposal for foreign investors to own as much as 20% in Life Insurance Corp., according to a person with knowledge of the matter, which would enable them to participate in the nation’s biggest initial public offering. …
October 4, 2021
New Delhi-based insurtech start up SafeTree has raised $1 million in its seed funding round from angel investors Shams Ahmed Parvaz and Faiz Shams. The startup aims to use the capital infusion to expand its team, strengthen product development and …
September 23, 2021
New Delhi wants to block Chinese investors from buying shares in Indian insurance giant Life Insurance Corp. (LIC) which is due to go public, four senior government officials and a banker told Reuters, underscoring tensions between the two nations. State-owned …