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NEW DELHI, India—In a move that some analysts suggest foreshadows how new payment technology can disintermediate FIs, a move by the Reserve Bank of India allows a mobile wallet user, who has fulfilled all know-your-customer (KYC) norms, to send and receive money from different mobile wallets, including the likes of Paytm and PhonePe.

MOUNTAINVIEW, Calif.—Google has unveiled Datashare for financial services, a new product the company said is designed to help organize third-party data from market data publishers such as exchanges and other providers, as well as data consumers — including investment banks, asset managers and hedge funds.

WASHINGTON—An Austrian man has been arrested in the United Kingdom on criminal charges related to his alleged participation in a conspiracy to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through the U.S. financial system as part of a scheme to pay bribes around the world and defraud the Brazilian government, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.