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London-based research agency, Findexable, recently released the 'Global Fintech Index 2020'. It claimed that this is the first fully global fintech index covering over 230 cities across 65 countries. Based on its findings it would be safe to state that India is emerging as a fintech hub.As per the 'Global Fintech Index 2020', among the world's 100 leading fintech cities, six are based in India. These include Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and Ahmedabad.The report compared how India and China play out in the fintech game. It found that China has been remarkably successful at simultaneously driving financial and digital inclusion across its population. The country has also created a set of new financial services companies with transaction volumes, which makes those of the western countries pale in comparison.Close However, the survey noted that when it comes to the diversity of fintech hubs, it’s India, not China, which wins in the first global rankings of … [Read more...] about India emerging as fintech hub: Findexable report

Silicon Valley giants like Google, Facebook and Microsoft failed to grab a spot among the Top 10 best places to work in the United States in 2020, going by Glassdoor's annual rankings.The top spot was clinched by California-based cloud computing company HubSpot, which stood at the 16th position in the ranking last year.Meanwhile, Facebook and Google, which claimed 7th and 8th positions respectively in 2019, slipped to the 23rd and 11th spots.Close Microsoft was among one of the tech giants which saw an improvement in its ranking, moving up to the 21st spot from the 34th one in 2019. related news Reserve Bank of India February rate cut on a knife's edge: Reuters poll GST rates may go up for various items to meet revenue shortfall Bain & Company, which was rated last year's best place to work and held the spot in 2012, 2014 and 2017 as well, moved to the second spot making way for HubSpot. Apple slid to the 84th spot this year from its 71st rank last year.Companies making … [Read more...] about Top 10 places to work in US in 2020: Google, Facebook fail to make the cut

Eddy Cue doesn’t look like a man in the midst of his toughest year in decades. Sporting an untucked apricot camp shirt and blue jeans over camouflage socks and a pair of blue leather racing shoes from Germany, Apple‘s SVP of Internet software and services pulls up a chair at one of the marble-topped tables outside Caffé Macs, the employee restaurant at the heart of Apple’s 23-year-old Cupertino campus. (The company will begin to move into its new “spaceship” HQ next year.) Cue dives right into telling me about his latest horror story: advertisement advertisement The collapse, two nights earlier, of his beloved Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals, which Cue had the dismal pleasure of observing from a courtside seat. “Am I in mourning?” he asks of his team’s loss to LeBron James’s Cleveland Cavaliers. “You better believe it. I’m not watching ESPN, I haven’t gotten onto a sports website, I … [Read more...] about Playing The Long Game Inside Tim Cook’s Apple

Employees have spoken (or written reviews, as it were) and have played a part in determining the best large companies to work for in the coming year. Glassdoor’s annual exhaustive analysis revealed some surprises at the top of the ranks this time around. Among the 10 best, the top four all scored a 4.6 out of 5 rating, while the remaining six were also tied at the same score. HubSpot (4.6 rating) Bain & Company (4.6 rating) DocuSign (4.6 rating) In-N-Out Burger (4.6 rating) Sammons Financial Group (4.5 rating) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (4.5 rating) Intuitive Surgical (4.5 rating) Ultimate Software (4.5 rating) VIPKid (4.5 rating) Southwest Airlines (4.5 rating) Technology firms dominated the list of 50 best with a total of 31 companies represented. Some of the other industries included healthcare (9 companies), retail (8 companies), manufacturing (8 companies), real estate (6 companies), consulting (5 companies), and travel and tourism (5 companies). Common … [Read more...] about Job seekers: These are the 10 best companies to work for in 2020, and they’re not who you think

Those who intentionally abuse their parents or senior citizens under their care and protection or abandon them may be sentenced to six months' imprisonment or slapped with a fine of Rs 10,000 or both, according to a bill introduced in Lok Sabha on December 11.The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens (Amendment) Bill, 2019, piloted by Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot in the House, also has provisions for the elderly to claim maintenance and for mandatory registration of senior citizens care homes and other such institutions which will have to comply with prescribed minimum standards.The bill defines "abuse" as physical, verbal, emotional and economic abuse, neglect and abandonment, causing assault, injury, physical or mental suffering. "Children" in relation to a parent or a senior citizen means son or daughter, whether biological, adoptive or step-child, and includes son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandson, grand-daughter and legal guardians … [Read more...] about Bill introduced in Lok Sabha to sentence abusers of senior citizens to six months in jail