Airtel partners with Western Union to Accelerate Real-time Global Payments

Country’s leading telecom giant Bharti Airtel recently collaborated with Western Union, the major money transfer brand to launch real-time payments into bank accounts and mobile wallets across India. In couple of months with the collaboration, The Western Union’s money transaction will be redirected to Airtel Payment Bank which would happen through the mobile application 24×7.

IANS reported that this announcement follows the conclusion of new flagship collaborations of Western Union with two leading subsidiaries of Bharti Airtel, namely Airtel Payments Bank and Airtel Africa, a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services with a presence in 14 countries in Africa.

TCS integrates two rural banks onto core banking solution ‘TCS BaNCS’

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization has successfully integrated the operations of two regional rural banks (RRBs), Pandyan Grama Bank and Pallavan Grama Bank, onto its core banking solution, TCS BaNCS, at the newly formed Tamil Nadu Grama Bank.

The merged entity, sponsored by Indian Bank, is headquartered in Salem. Despite the scale and complexity of the post-merger change management program, TCS completed the integration and roll-out ahead of schedule, within a short span of 6 months.

Naveen Patnaik inaugurates National Handloom Expo 2020 in Bhubaneswar

Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the 17th National Handloom Expo 2020 being held at Exhibition Ground in Bhubaneswar to provide an opportunity to weavers to sell handloom products of different places under one umbrella. The expo is organised by the Odisha State Handloom Weavers Co-op Society Limited (Boyanika). All ranges of handwoven from different parts of the country are available in this fair.