India’s largest online retailer Flipkart is set to get between $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion in fresh capital from Tencent Holdings Ltd, Microsoft Corp. and eBay Inc.—funding that will provide it ammunition in the high-stakes battle with Amazon India for dominance of India’s e-commerce market. Fl…
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Indian banks misread the Fintech threat
A payment system is to an economy what plumbing is to houses: The only time people talk about it is when it’s not working. That’s been the case in India since the government’s demonetization decision on Nov. 8. While that shock gutted commerce, it also upended the payment metho…