Sign up for the daily India Edition newsletter by Menaka Doshi – an insider's guide to the emerging economic powerhouse, and the billionaires and businesses behind its rise. Indian fintech pioneer Paytm is set to hire about 4,000 people over the next nine months, part of a pivot aimed at expanding its merchant network and artificial intelligence-driven product offerings. The increase would mark a ...
Sign up for the daily India Edition newsletter by Menaka Doshi – an insider's guide to the emerging economic powerhouse, and the billionaires and businesses behind its rise. Indian fintech pioneer Paytm is set to hire about 4,000 people over the next nine months, part of a pivot aimed at expanding its merchant network and artificial intelligence-driven product offerings. The increase would mark a roughly 10% increase in its headcount that stands at about 40,000 employees. Paytm is also laying off 1% of its staff, or about 400 people, after the current performance appraisal cycle, a company spokesperson said. The cuts follow more substantial reductions in the previous year. The digital payments operator has been revamping its business after Indian regulators targeted its banking affiliate two years ago. Chief Executive Officer Vijay Shekhar Sharma is trying to get more of the company’s hundreds of millions of registered users to tap its service to access loans, investments and other financial products. The hiring push, including for senior leadership roles, will continue through March 2027. Paytm, based on the outskirts of New Delhi, will recruit across teams including product, technology and AI. “Over the last two months, we have added more than 800 people and are in the process of recruiting a further 4,000,” the company said in a statement. Paytm has posted four straight quarters of profit, rebounding from the turmoil caused by India’s banking regulator all but shutting down its banking affiliate. The company slashed more than 4,500 jobs in the aftermath of those curbs. The Reserve Bank of India forced a formal wind-down in April by canceling the operating license of independent affiliate Paytm Payments Bank. The banking affiliate has laid off most of its staff over the past two years, with some getting absorbed elsewhere in the fintech group. The bank will let go of its few hundred remaining staff as it shuts down. Founded by Sharma in 2010, Paytm began by offeri...
Shares of electric vehicle pioneer Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) jumped 5.5% in the afternoon session after the company's unsupervised robotaxi service launched in Austin over the weekend, the most concrete step yet toward the autonomous revenue story the stock has been pricing in, while JPMorgan's upgrade continued to provide institutional support in a broader risk-on session.
Shares of electric vehicle pioneer Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) jumped 5.5% in the afternoon session after the company's unsupervised robotaxi service launched in Austin over the weekend, the most concrete step yet toward the autonomous revenue story the stock has been pricing in, while JPMorgan's upgrade continued to provide institutional support in a broader risk-on session.
As it happened: Spurs 115-111 Knicks French star leads Spurs to win with 32 points Knicks lead best-of-seven series 2-1 Trump given hostile reception by New York crowd The spectacle at Madison Square Garden on Monday night was such that the basketball almost took a back seat to everything else. The president in the suites . The mayor in the crowd. Movie stars along the sideline. The culmination of...
As it happened: Spurs 115-111 Knicks French star leads Spurs to win with 32 points Knicks lead best-of-seven series 2-1 Trump given hostile reception by New York crowd The spectacle at Madison Square Garden on Monday night was such that the basketball almost took a back seat to everything else. The president in the suites . The mayor in the crowd. Movie stars along the sideline. The culmination of days of talk over $10,000 tickets, heightened security and cancelled watch parties alongside the anticipation for New York City’s first home NBA finals game since 25 June 1999. By the end of the game, Victor Wembanyama had given New York something fresh to talk about. The San Antonio Spurs snapped the Knicks’ 13-game postseason winning streak with a 115-111 victory, playing spoiler to the Garden’s party and cutting the deficit to 2-1 in this year’s finals. Game 4 is Wednesday in New York. Continue reading...
Bursa Malaysia CEO Fad’l Mohamed says the AI buildout has supported the growth of the stock exchange. He speaks with Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin from the sidelines of the Invest Malaysia conference in Kuala Lumpur. (Source: Bloomberg)
Bursa Malaysia CEO Fad’l Mohamed says the AI buildout has supported the growth of the stock exchange. He speaks with Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin from the sidelines of the Invest Malaysia conference in Kuala Lumpur. (Source: Bloomberg)
hyejin kang/iStock via Getty Images The AMG GW&K Small Cap Value Fund ((Class N)) returned 4.20% in the first quarter of 2026, compared with a 4.96% return for its benchmark, the Russell 2000® Value Index. For the 12-month period ending March 31, 2026, the Fund returned 17.23% compared to a 28.09% return for its benchmark. Please note that this Fund has multiple share classes. Market Overview ▶ Th...
hyejin kang/iStock via Getty Images The AMG GW&K Small Cap Value Fund ((Class N)) returned 4.20% in the first quarter of 2026, compared with a 4.96% return for its benchmark, the Russell 2000® Value Index. For the 12-month period ending March 31, 2026, the Fund returned 17.23% compared to a 28.09% return for its benchmark. Please note that this Fund has multiple share classes. Market Overview ▶ The broadening theme we have often mentioned as critical to U.S. small cap performance did play out for most of the quarter. However, there were some very strong areas that drove overall performance and it is worth noting the market narrowed in March. ▶ For Q1, Small Cap Value crushed the Growth benchmark by 777 basis points (bps). ▶ Within the Russell 2000® Value Index, the energy sector returned 43.4% and was an obvious standout as oil prices surged. The information technology (+9.9%), consumer staples (+9.8%), and materials (+4.2%) sectors also offered impressive results given a heightened potential for negative economic outcomes from the war. ▶ On the opposite side, sectors such as consumer discretionary (-3.9%), financials (+0.7%), and real estate (+0.8%) and were at the bottom of the rankings. In health care, typically a standout in times of stress, all industries were in the red, except for biotechnology (+9.4). ▶ Examining factor performance, the quarter leaned a bit toward higher quality while March was oddly neutral to slightly lower quality. Fund Review ▶ On a factor allocation basis, the Fund had a tailwind for the quarter of about 87 bps, so the cause of the underperformance was attributable to selection and sector allocation. On the allocation side, our modest underweight to energy accounted for most of the 38-bps impact. ▶ On the positive side, stock selection results in industrials and information technology were excellent. ▶ In industrials, outperformance was led by Powell Industrials, Inc., Thermon Group Holdings, Inc., Ducommun Incorporated ( DCO ), and Eve...