For fintech players the year offered opportunities like no other. Payments gateway Razorpay and investment platform Zerodha entered the billion-dollar club, as digital payments and investments boomed. A class apart Online education sparks investments in edtech space The boom in online education made a decacorn of learning platform Byju’s and sparked a flurry of investments in the edtech space, notably in Vedantu, Unacademy and Topprs. The trend is set to hold up. A checkout Former HDFC Bank Aditya Puri It was time to say goodbye for one of the banking industry’s most prominent faces. After a 25-year stint that saw HDFC Bank go from a start-up to an industry leader, Aditya Puri stepped down as its CEO in October as he turned 70, paving the way for Sashidhar Jagdishan.