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Mobikwik Offers Loans to Wallet Users to Push Digital Payments

22May By AnkitaNo Comments

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Mobikwik Offers Loans to Wallet Users to Push Digital Payments

Fin-tech company Mobikwik is expanding its services by offering instant micro loans to wallet users running short on balance as part of its efforts to boost digital payment usage in the country. The company, which competes with Alibaba-backed Paytm, started pilot on the project a few weeks back and has already given loans to about 25,000 users. "These are micro loans, about Rs 500-2,500, given to users when they are running short on balance while making a purchase. We are happy with the product, the repayment rates are around 97 per cent. We are now looking at expanding this," MobiKwik co-founder Upasana Taku said. She added that the company has partnered consumer-lending marketplace, CashCare for the service. MobiKwik is in process of adding 10-12 other similar banks and...

Exclusive: Dilip Shanghvi, IDFC Bank Withdraw From Payments Bank

20May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Exclusive: Dilip Shanghvi, IDFC Bank Withdraw From Payments Bank

Telenor Financial Services, IDFC Bank and Sun Pharma's Dilip Shanghvi have decided to withdraw their licence to set up a payments bank. They are the second applicant to withdraw from the licence after Cholamandalam group pulled out of payments banks race a couple of months back. In a joint press statement, the partners said: "Dilip Shanghvi, IDFC Bank and Telenor Financial Services jointly agree to withdraw plans to establish a payments bank venture and consequently the payment bank licence will not be pursued." Last September, Dilip Shanghvi, Chairman of Sun Pharma, as lead applicant along with Telenor Financial Services and IDFC Bank, was granted in-principle licence by Reserve Bank to form a payments bank. "Following the mutual decision to withdraw from setting up a payments bank,...

80 Percent of India Preferring to Shop Online Instead of Visiting Stores – Report

20May By AdityaNo Comments

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80 Percent of India Preferring to Shop Online Instead of Visiting Stores – Report

Online shopping is more popular among consumers with 80 per cent of buyers preferring to shop over the Internet instead of visiting different stores to purchase their favourite products, according to a new survey. The study undertaken jointly by Yahoo and Mindshare analyses the shopping behaviour of customers to reveal that 31 per cent shoppers opt for online shopping in order to save the time and effort that might be spent on physically going to stores to buy the same products. About 28 per cent customers are driven to buy online due to the availability of discounts and promotions while the convenience to shop anywhere, anytime attracts the remaining 21 per cent, it said. The study also highlights how more and more customers are taking to mobile phones to make online purchases as c...

Without Funding Paytm Can Sustain For Five Years – Vijay Shekhar Sharma

18May By AdityaNo Comments

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Without Funding Paytm Can Sustain For Five Years – Vijay Shekhar Sharma

One97 Communications Ltd., the owner of an Indian online payment processor backed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s finance arm, said funds at its disposal were enough to last five years, enabling it to build a business model that’s “predictable.” “We have enough money in the bank to last 21 quarters if we keep spending at the same rate as last year,” Vijay Shekhar Sharma, chief executive officer (CEO) of One97 that owns Paytm, said in an interview to Bloomberg TV in Hong Kong. “The last term sheet I signed was in 2014. We haven’t raised money since.” Many Indian startups are running out of cash, while others including Flipkart Online Services Pvt., India’s biggest e-commerce company, have had their valuation marked down. One97, which was founded in 2000 by Sharma, doesn’t plan...

Paytm Enables Cashless Payments at ‘Mother Dairy’ Booths

13May By AnkitaNo Comments

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Paytm Enables Cashless Payments at ‘Mother Dairy’ Booths

Paytm, India's leading payments company, has partnered with Mother Dairy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) to enable customers to make cashless payments through their Paytm wallets across 100+ Mother Dairy Milk Booths. Paytm wallet has become a default mode of payment for customers for a wide variety of services in the country including taxi rides, food ordering, and money transfers etc. The association with Mother Dairy will further help the digital wallet to cement its position as the preferred way to transact across offline and online platforms. "Paytm is focused on creating solutions for everyday payment use cases for Indians. Starting from the morning milk supply to all other everyday necessities, it is our mission to make everyday payments ...

Paytm Signed Up More Than 1000 Brands To Open an Online Store

9May By AdityaNo Comments

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Paytm Signed Up More Than 1000 Brands To Open an Online Store

Vijay Shekhar Sharma led Paytm has signed up more than 1,000 brands like Samsung, Dell, Whirlpool, Woodland, Lakme, Casio and Puma, to open up exclusive online stores on its platform. The announcement comes a week after top ecommerce player Flipkart said it is wooing some of the most-popular electronic and apparel brands including HP, Wildcraft, Peter England, Bosch and @Home with a new offering that allows them to create 'stores' on its digital marketplace. The online brand stores are independent online retail stores wherein brands can control the sellers who are selling in their store, inventory, pricing and promotions. They will also be able to run promotional campaigns and tag their physical stores, enabling them to generate sales for their offline channel through this online sto...

3May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Mobikwik Raised USD 50 Million (Rs 330 crore) in Funding

Mobile wallet company Mobikwik today said it has raised USD 50 million (about Rs 330 crore) in funding, led by Japanese payments firm Gateway and Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek. Its existing investors such as Sequoia Capital and Treeline Asia also participated in the current round of funding. The company said it will use the proceeds for product innovations, team building, and user growth. "Despite the current business climate when funding has become challenging, unit economics, sustainable growth and a sound business model are what investors are focusing their attention on. We are very excited to live up to the investors expectations and raise the funding where even larger players are failing to raise funds," Mobikwik founder and CEO Bipin Preet Singh said in a statement. MobiKwiks...

Uber Users Can Soon Pay For Rides Abroad Using Paytm & Alipay Wallet

3May By AnkitaNo Comments

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Uber Users Can Soon Pay For Rides Abroad Using Paytm & Alipay Wallet

Digital payments firm Paytm will enable Uber users to pay for their rides in Indian currency while travelling abroad using its mobile wallet by month-end. Alibaba-backed Paytm will not charge any fees for conversion and the fares will be based on current forex rates. Currently, Indian users need a credit card to pay for Uber rides taken aboard. "We will enable users to pay for their rides in Indian currency while they travel abroad. The integration process is on and should be live by month-end... Users will be able to pay in Indian rupees based on current forex rates," Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma said. Uber today announced a partnership with AliPay -- Alibabas online payment solution in China -- to enable users to use AliPays mobile wallet and pay in Chinese Renminbi (RMB) while...

Vijay Shekhar Sharma to Head IAMAIs Payments Banks Group

15Apr By AnkitaNo Comments

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Vijay Shekhar Sharma to Head IAMAIs Payments Banks Group

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma will chair the newly formed Payments Banks Group at industry body IAMAI. Vodafone India business head (M-Pesa) Suresh Sethi will be the Vice-Chairman of the Group, Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) said in a statement. "Payments Banks is an innovative model of bringing unbanked population into the formal banking fold. Paytm along with other license holders, would make financial services accessible for every Indian through this innovative route," Sharma said. At present, six out of 10 payments banks primary licensees are IAMAI members. IAMAI has more than 50 companies representing PPIs, wallets, aggregators, business correspondents, PoS Operators, among others as members.

7 Key Points of RBI’s New Online Payment System “Unified Payments Interface Protocol”

11Apr By NitishNo Comments

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7 Key Points of RBI’s New Online Payment System “Unified Payments Interface Protocol”

The Unified Payments Interface (UPI), which comes into effect Monday, is a single interface across all National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) systems, allowing customers to instantaneously transfer funds across different banks with the use of a single identification and password. Multiple bank accounts can be linked to a single mobile banking application and money can be both received and requested through the same interface. This could weaken the case for consumers having to store money in multiple electronic wallets to pay for services such as cab rides, movie tickets or utility bills. Mobile banking has surged in India in recent months as banks have pushed both retail and corporate customers to adopt platforms designed to transact on the phone. In the September-December qua...

6Apr By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Now, This Indian State to Impose Tax on E-commerce Shipments

Himachal Pradesh has become the latest state to impose tax on e-commerce shipments with the state Assembly today passing a bill providing for levying tax on all online purchases to check revenue loss caused by online trading. Major states like Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh have already announced imposing tax on online purchases to protect local traders. The HP Assembly passed the Himachal Pradesh Tax on Entry of Goods (Amendment) Bill 2016, that provides for levying tax on all online purchases to check revenue losses caused by online trading. The bill was passed without any discussion as the BJP members were protesting on some other issue when the bill came up for discussion. As per Excise and Taxation Minister Parkash Chauhdary, the Bill includes provisions to...

Flipkart Acquired Third Payments Start-up PhonePe

1Apr By PriyankaNo Comments

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Flipkart Acquired Third Payments Start-up PhonePe

Bengaluru, 1st April 2016: Flipkart Ltd, India's leading E-commerce platform has acquired payments start-up PhonePe Internet Pvt. Ltd.. The startup was launched last December by former Flipkart executives Sameer Nigam, Rahul Chari and Burzin Engineer. The amount of the deal is not confirmed yet but according to sources, the deal size is between $10 million to $20 million. The PhonePe team will join leading e-commerce company but will function as an independent business unit. This is Flipkart’s third major acquisition in payments, after it bought payments start-up NGPay (Jigrahak Mobility Solutions Pvt. Ltd) in 2014, and FX Mart Pvt. Ltd, which owns a prepaid wallet licence last August. “Payments has been one of the biggest hurdles for mass adoption of online shopping in India. UPI has ...