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The enfant terrible of commodity exchanges is eyeing a comeback riding the crypto wave. But will Shah’s past be his biggest stumbling block?

Jignesh Shah is making a comeback with a play in the crypto asset space in India.
On Monday morning, the cryptocurrency community on social media and in private platforms were chattering about an advertisement placed in financial dailies. The ad by 63 Moons Technologies was promoting a new platform called “Crypto Wire”. 63 Moons is the rechristened Financial Technologies (India) Ltd, or FTIL, which Shah had founded in 1988.

While some wondered how someone whose company had defaulted on payments of Rs 5,600 crore could start a new company, others questioned the efficacy of the proposition …
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The newly announced levy on UPI payments undermines the very foundation of using digital payments for stock market investing. Brokers are in a tizzy.
The Rs 250 SIP was launched last year by the former SEBI chairperson with one clear goal: financial inclusion. More than a year later, the much-hyped scheme doesn’t seem to have caught on with MF investors.