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Navi is chasing profitability as it is looking to launch an IPO in the next fiscal and the fintech has been moving in that direction over the past six months, Naresh tells Moneycontrol
Speaking at the Startup Mahakumbhi, Sachin Bansal said that fintechs should prioritise regulation, even if it is detrimental to the interests of its consumers.
Bansal admitted that his exit from Flipkart in 2018, following the company’s $16 billion acquisition by Walmart, was neither anticipated nor desired.
This marks a renewed push for Navi’s IPO ambitions after its previous attempt in 2022, when it filed a draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with SEBI for a Rs 3,350 crore public issue but later withdrew due to market conditions.
The duo is planning to start the venture with a market regulator Sebi’s Portfolio Management Services (PMS) license targeting high-net-worth individuals and financial institutions
PhonePe dominates UPI payments, with a 47.5% market share in volume in February. In value terms, its share is even higher at 51 percent
UPI has been treated as a side feature by these major players rather than as a core product, the Navi founder has said
According to Bansal, Rupay credit cards now account for 60% of all credit card spends in India, with 90% of those transactions happening on UPI.
Rajiv Naresh will be the CEO of Navi Technologies while Abhishek Dwivedi will be CEO of Navi Finserv Limited
Late last year, NPCI extended the implementation of its 30 percent market cap by two more years, as the newer players failed to make any material impact
CM Devendra Fadnavis admits that Maharashtra lost business to Bengaluru and Hyderabad due to high real estate costs but says things are now changing
Though NPCI has extended by two years the deadline to implement 30 percent market cap share, PhonePe and Google Pay together account for close to 85 percent of the UPI market share
Navi’s move to reduce the peak interest rates could also mean that it will naturally reduce its exposure to customers with higher risk profiles and is likely to help the company reduce its NPA during FY 25
Meanwhile, Sachin Bansal-led Navi saw a month-on-month decline in the number of transactions for the first time since April this year when the firm started courting payment users aggressively with cashbacks
Flipkart Group’s super.money doubled the number of transactions in October, overtaking NPCI’s BHIM app
RBI on Thursday barred Bengaluru headquartered-Navi Finserv and three more NBFCs to stop disbursing loans from October 21
Super.money is betting on selling credit products on UPI. The wait list for its Rupay credit card has crossed a million, founder and CEO Prakash Sikaria has said
The NBFC, whose main line of business is lending, has grown its volume 30 times in six months — from three million UPI transactions in March to 89 million in August
The lack of a specific revenue model has prevented the banks and UPI apps from actively acquiring customers for the product
While the rewards seem to be coming down, Navi has managed to post blistering growth and is set to be the fifth-largest UPI app if it keeps the momentum going
Paytm hung on to its 8 percent market share in June, a far cry from the 12 percent it had before the regulatory action on its associate firm, Paytm Payments Bank in January this year
Interestingly, Flipkart cofounder Sachin Bansal’s fintech app Navi has registered a 10x growth in UPI payments in two months. Bansal was instrumental in Flipkart acquiring PhonePe
Navi started offering rewards and cashbacks for unified payments interface (UPI) users on its platform in April. While this has succeeded, now the company has a bigger challenge of maintaining the momentum
Navi's market share is a drop in the ocean compared to market leader PhonePe's 50%. Incidentally, Flipkart, which was cofounded by Bansal, and from which PhonePe was spun off in 2020, waded into the UPI business last month