Leading digital payments app Paytm has been granted licence by the Reserve Bank of India for Payments Bank and is likely to start operations next month.
Paytm Payments Bank will be the second one to be set up in the country after Airtel Payments Bank launched its pilot bank in Rajasthan in November 2016.
Hero MotoCorp Sales Decline
Hero MotoCorp, the country's biggest two-wheeler maker, saw sales decline for the second month in a row as volumes shrunk by a significant 34% in December.
According to numbers released by the company, sales in December were at 3.3 lakh units against nearly 5 lakh units in the same month in 2015.
Hero sales had fallen by 13% in November 2016 on total volumes of 4.8 lakh units.
The State government issued a GO for converting all the existing Telugu medium municipal schools into English medium schools from Class 1 to 10 irrespective of the student and teacher strength, with immediate effect.
However, it will not be applicable to Class 10 for the academic year 2016-17.
Anshu Jain Joins Cantor Fitzgerald
Anshu Jain has been appointed as president of Cantor Fitzgerald LP.
He had stepped down as co-chief executive of Deutsche Bank a year ago.
Jain will help expand Cantor Fitzgerald's business in Asia, among other markets.
Cantor has four main business lines Capital Markets and Investment Banking, Wholesale Financial Brokerage, Real Estate Brokerage and Finance, and Private Equity.