YES Bank, India's fifth-largest private sector bank, on Monday said it will set up a centre of excellence for start-ups in financial technology space at T-Hub, a technology incubator set up by Telangana government in partnership with three premier academic institutes.
YES Bank on Monday signed an MoU with T-Hub in this regard.
This association will help create a conducive business environment and support system for a large number of FinTech startups. In addition, YES Bank will offer its various products and payment gateways and open APIs (application programme interface) to the start-up community, it said in a statement.
The bank's senior president and country head, digital banking, Ritesh Pai said they had been in the forefront of revolutionizing the Indian FinTech startup segment.
CISCO and ParadigmIT will also set up smart cities centre of excellence at T-Hub. They will set up a PoC of smart parking and smart lighting solutions. The two companies will work with companies and startups in developing innovative solutions using Internet of Things.
Yes Bank, CISCO and ParadigmIT were among different companies which signed MoUs with the Telangana government, and its arms T-Hub and Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge (TASK) at the launch of state's new Information and Communication Technology policy and four other subsidiary policies.
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