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Moneyview & CaratLane partner to offer digital gold
Mumbai: Moneyview, a financial services platform, is enhancing its offerings by introducing digital gold in partnership with CaratLane, an omni-channel jewellery brand. This collaboration aims to simplify gold investments by providing a user-friendly platform for consumers to buy, sell, and store gold digitally. Moneyview’s customers will have access to high-quality 24K gold, ensuring purity and transparency.
Gold has long been a key investment for Indians, but traditional gold investments come with high entry barriers and storage challenges. Digital gold enables fractional ownership, making it accessible to a broader audience. With a low entry ticket size, it reduces the financial burden of traditional gold investments, presenting a more appealing savings option. Moneyview and CaratLane are poised to transform the digital gold investment landscape in India, offering a reliable way to invest in this enduring asset.
Speaking about the partnership, Moneyview CBO Sushma Abburi said, “As we evolve in our multi-product journey, our mission is to provide access to different savings and investment options for our customers for them to manage and grow their finances efficiently. Our partnership with CaratLane allows us to offer a trusted and accessible gold investment option that resonates with India’s evolving digital consumers. Our partnership has come at the right time considering the festive season in India begins, a period known for increased gold investments. We are excited to provide an effortless digital gold experience, ensuring that our customers have more choices when it comes to securing their financial future. This partnership strengthens our position as a leading platform providing safe and secure investment options in one app.”
CaratLane COO Atul Sinha commented, “The whole point of building the digital gold business is to provide a simpler, cost effective solution to consumers who buy and gift gold for future jewellery purchases. Today most of such customers buy gold coins. This partnership can give those digital gold buyers an option to redeem that gold for beautiful jewellery. We feel that we can combine our capabilities and provide a wonderful experience and great value to Moneyview’s customers.”
This partnership enhances Moneyview’s SuperApp by integrating the flexibility of digital gold investments while reinforcing its commitment to providing Indians with a range of cutting-edge financial solutions under one roof.
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‘You packed my parachute’: Avinash Kaul’s farewell salutes Network18’s unsung thousands
The outgoing chief’s LinkedIn post skips the boardroom tributes and goes straight to the security guards, drivers and office boys who kept the machine running
MUMBAI: Most farewell posts by senior media executives follow a familiar script: gratitude to leadership, a nod to the team, a hint of what lies ahead. Avinash Kaul’s is not that post.
Writing on LinkedIn on his last day at Network18 Media & Investments, where he spent nearly 12 years rising to chief executive, Kaul bypassed the boardroom entirely and directed his most heartfelt words at the people furthest from it: the security guard who greeted him before the building was fully awake, the fleet staff who drove him to airports at ungodly hours, the office assistants, the housekeeping teams, and the administrators who, as he put it, “held ten thousand invisible threads so the rest of us could look organised.”
“You packed my parachute,” he wrote. “Every day. Without fanfare, recognition, or ever asking for it.”
It was a striking note from a man who leaves behind a considerable operational record. Kaul joined Network18 managing three channels and exits with responsibility for 20, alongside a publishing business, a growing connected television footprint, and what he says is the highest revenue and highest channel share in the group’s history. He was quick to deflect the credit. “Not because of me. Because of 4,000 people who showed up, every day, in every department, across the country.”
To content teams across India, he issued a reminder that carries some weight given the pressures Indian news media currently faces. “Keep being custodians of trust for 700 million people. That is not a small thing. That is the whole thing.”
To colleagues in revenue and ratings who found him relentless and hard to satisfy, he was unapologetic but generous. “There was never a single moment of ill intent in my heart. Everything I pushed you towards came from one belief – that you were stronger than you knew, and I was not willing to let you settle for less than your real capability.” Those who believed him, he said, flew. Those who did not taught him to be a better communicator. He was grateful to both.
On what comes next, he offered a hint wrapped in metaphor. Something is being built, he said, prepared for “the way you pack a bag before a long climb. Not out of restlessness. Out of readiness.”
In a media landscape that rarely pauses to acknowledge the people who keep the lights on, it was, at the very least, a different kind of goodbye.
