Geopolitical risks emanating from the Russia-Ukraine conflict is expected to push India’s import bill higher. Consequently, the trend will widen the country’s Current Account Deficit. The crisis is expected to increase prices of mineral fuels and oils, gems and jewellery, edible oils and fertilisers. At present, India has a significant import dependence for these items.
Launched as Kazi in 2017, when the market was quite young, Kenyan startup Ziada returned after hiatus in 2021, and swiftly saw swift uptake of its platform, which helps informal sector service providers access more work opportunities.
A new Digital Rupee is proposed to be introduced by the Reserve Bank of India using blockchain technology starting from 2022-23, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday. In her Union Budget 2022-23 speech, she also said Rs 1 lakh crore financial assistance to states will be provided in 2022-23 to catalyse investments.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.