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Paytm shares surge after RBI grants payment aggregator license

Payment aggregators are platforms that provide diverse payments options to customers, including merchants

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China's Ant Group to sell 4% stake in India's Paytm for US$242 million

Paytm has seen a spate of selldowns in the past two years, including the exit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and Japan’s SoftBank Group

Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma is classified as a public shareholder, not a large shareholder, according to exchange data, which also says Paytm has no investors categorised as “large shareholders.”

India markets regulator pull up Paytm founder, director on IPO breaches, Moneycontrol reports

India’s markets regulator has issued show-cause notices to Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma and other board members who held roles during the firm’s November 2021 IPO over alleged misrepresentation ...

Zomato is capitalising on its success in food delivery to expand in adjacent areas.

Zomato to buy Paytm’s movie ticketing business for US$244 million

ZOMATO agreed to buy Paytm’s movie and events ticketing business for 20.5 billion rupees (S$319 million) in cash, snapping up an asset from the fintech pioneer to move beyond food and grocery delivery...

Fintech firm Paytm says its focus will be on payment and financial services along with digital goods commerce.

Paytm is in talks with Zomato to sell movie, ticketing business

PAYTM is in talks to sell its movie and ticketing business to Zomato, as the Indian fintech pioneer seeks to unload non-core assets and revive sales hurt by a regulatory crackdown.

Paytm's consolidated net loss in the fourth quarter widened to 5.5 billion rupees from 1.68 billion rupees a year ago.

India’s Paytm flags further financial impact of banking unit wind down

INDIAN digital payments firm Paytm posted a wider loss in the fourth quarter on Wednesday (May 22) and warned of further financial impact as the company absorbs the full effect of the Reserve Bank of ...

The company, run by billionaire founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, has pledged no disruption to its users even as the curbs on Paytm Payments Bank kick in.

India’s Paytm wins payments approval it needs to stay in business

INDIA’S Paytm won approval to become a consumer digital payments platform, helping the beleaguered fintech continue a bulk of its business even as its banking affiliate is getting wound down.

Paytm Payments Bank engaged in illegal acts, including organising and facilitating online gambling.

India's Paytm Payments Bank fined over US$662,000 for alleged money laundering

India’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) on Friday (Mar 1) imposed a penalty of US$662,565 on Paytm’s banking arm, Paytm Payments Bank, for alleged money laundering, the country’s finance ministry sa...

Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma owns a 51 per cent stake in Paytm Payments Bank while Paytm owns the rest.

India’s Paytm discontinues inter-company agreements with its payments bank

INDIA’S Paytm and its payments bank unit have mutually agreed to discontinue various inter-company agreements in the process to reduce dependencies, the embattled payments firm said on Friday (Mar 1).

Softbank, which held 17.5 per cent stake in Paytm in September 2022, has trimmed its ownership for more than a year through multiple open market deals, with its most recent cut being in January.

Japan’s SoftBank cuts stake in India’s Paytm to under 3%

JAPAN’S SoftBank Group has further reduced its stake in beleaguered Indian payments firm Paytm to 2.83 per cent from 5.01 per cent, an exchange filing showed on Thursday (Feb 29).