Paytm Payments
Recharge on the go for your mobile, DTH, data cards, utility bills, bus tickets and now also mobile shopping.
Paytm is India’s largest mobile commerce platform. Paytm started by offering mobile recharge and utility bill payments and today it offers a full marketplace to consumers on its mobile apps. We have over 20mn registered users. In a short span of time Paytm has scaled to more than 15 Million orders per month.
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The Oracle of Omaha: Warren Buffet Gives Fintech Some Love
Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway has moved into Fintech. Long a lover of more boring investments like insurance and rusty metal businesses, Berkshire has recently invested in two different Fintech firms. First, Berkshire backed Brazil based payments tech firm StoneCo. with a mere $300 million. StoneCo.
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Warren Buffett’s Holding Invests $600 Mln in Fintech Firms Focused on Emerging Markets
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Berkshire Hathaway Investing in FinTech Firms | PYMNTS.com
Berkshire Hathaway, the Warren Buffett investment company, has been getting in on the FinTech market, investing hundreds of millions of dollars during the past few months. The Wall Street Journal, citing the company, reported that during the past few months, Berkshire has invested roughly $600 million in StoneCo, the Brazilian payment processor and Paytm’s parent […]
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Brief: Satish Kumar Gupta Steps in as New Paytm Payments Bank CEO
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Paytm Founder Targeted In Blackmail Scheme | PYMNTS.com
Three people have been remanded in India over an alleged plot to blackmail the founder of Paytm for $2.7 million. According to Reuters on Monday (Oct. 22), Paytm’s spokeswoman, “Sonia Dhawan, her husband Rupak Jain and another Paytm employee, Devendra Kumar, were arrested on Monday following a complaint on behalf of Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder […]
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Global Payments: UPI Transactions Jump In India | PYMNTS.com
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data that indicates a spike in Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions. In addition, Germany’s Wirecard and France’s SES-imagotag are expanding the existing relationship with its joint payment product, and Axis Bank has unveiled a new contactless solution in India. Germany’s […]
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Paytm: 33 Percent Share of India's UPI Payments | PYMNTS.com
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Paytm Adds Paytm Money Mutual Fund App to Wallet for its 850K Users Strong and Growing
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Set to Buy Stake in Paytm’s Parenting Company One97 Communications
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Warren Buffett to invest in Paytm
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Paytm rolls out AI cloud for India's developers
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Softbank and Yahoo tap Paytm QR tech for Japanese mobile payments service
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Softbank and Alibaba invest $445m in Paytm ecommerce unit
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