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Times Global appoints Rishi Jaitly as CEO
MUMBAI: Former Twitter Inc.’s India head Rishi Jaitly has been appointed as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Times Global Partners, a group initiative that supports the launch and expansion of emerging global digital companies in India. Jaitly will replace Puneet Singhvi who was till now the chief operating officer.
Satyan Gajwani, vice-chairman at Times Internet, the digital arm of The Times of India group, said they were thrilled to welcome Rishi. Under his leadership, both Twitter and Google in the last decade had grown from scratch, and were now involved in every segment of India’s business. This appointment comes as a part of Times efforts to increase partnerships investments in media platforms and global technology.
Jaitly was earlier serving as India head and then as vice-president, Asia Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, at Twitter for four years. He was a member of Google’s original Indian management team before joining Twitter. In a statement, Jaitly said his mission had always been to harness the power of technology and media to ensure they fully realised the untapped potential of people, communities and markets.
In 2015, he became the VP to lead the Twitter teams who drive strategic partnerships with the news, government, entertainment, sports, TV industries, and others in the mass and emerging media landscape. Jaitly tweeted, “ Building/leading @TwitterIndia, and expanding @TwitterMedia across Asia Pacific & Middle East, was the leadership experience of a lifetime.”
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Paisabazaar launches Credit Premier League 2.0
Nationwide campaign rewards highest credit scores with Rs 1 lakh top prize.
MUMBAI: When credit scores become a national league, even your CIBIL report starts feeling like it’s playing in the IPL and Paisabazaar has just kicked off the second season. Paisabazaar, India’s leading marketplace for financial products and the country’s largest free credit score platform, has announced the return of the Credit Premier League (CPL) 2.0, a fun, nationwide initiative to recognise and reward individuals with the highest credit scores.
Building on the success of the first edition, CPL 2.0 introduces higher rewards and broader participation. The individual(s) with the highest credit score in the country will win Rs 1 lakh, while state champions will each receive Rs 10,000. Additionally, all participants from the winning state, the one with the highest average credit score will also be rewarded.
All winnings will be credited directly to winners’ PB Wallet, allowing them to pay credit card bills, recharge mobiles, or settle utility bills seamlessly on the Paisabazaar platform.
Paisabazaar CEO Santosh Agarwal said the campaign aims to make credit awareness more engaging and mainstream. “With CPL, we are bringing together engagement, gamification and rewards to make conversations around credit scores more mainstream,” he noted. “Our focus remains on building a financially aware and credit-healthy Bharat.”
The first edition of CPL saw over 5.5 million participants, with the highest individual score touching 861. Delhi recorded the highest average credit score of 746.
Consumers can participate simply by checking their free credit score on the Paisabazaar platform or app. The CPL leaderboard and rankings will be available exclusively on the Paisabazaar App.
In a country where financial dreams are serious business, Paisabazaar has found a smart way to turn credit scores into an exciting game – because when your financial health gets rewarded, everyone wants to play.
