Bloomberg India’s $50 billion fintech industry will face hurdles in the form of tougher regulatory scrutiny and tighter liquidity leading to higher cost of capital for some companies next year, Rakesh Pozhath, partner at consulting firm Bain & Company, said. Investors into the country’s fintech space that has drawn heavyweights from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc to Masayoshi Son’s ...

  Bloomberg Sweden’s household lending grew last month at the slowest pace on record, as rates rise and home prices plunge. In November, lending to households grew by 4.1%, which is the lowest annual increase since Statistics Sweden began collecting the data in 2006. Mortgages accounted for 82% of all new loans, the office said in a statement. New lending ...

  Bloomberg Customers of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX sued in bankruptcy court in hopes of being first in line to recover some of the billions lost in the meltdown of Sam Bankman-Fried’s digital-asset empire. A group of four FTX customers asked a bankruptcy judge to rule their holdings in the Bahamas-based exchange belong to them, rather than FTX. They want ...