Newer UPI apps, Sachin Bansal-led Navi and Flikart Group’s super.money, along with NPCI’s subsidiary BHIM app, has gained market share over the last couple of years
Pincode is the second company to shut quick commerce, months after Dunzo paused operations amid intensifying competition from Blinkit, Swiggy’s Instamart and Zepto
A quick way to clear your tax dues from your phone, without bank logins or branch visits.
Banks set different caps, and apps follow those rules, so knowing where to change the limit saves time and failed-payment stress.
Despite the AI buzz, India’s fintech and banking players are treading cautiously, experimenting, not overhauling, as they balance innovation with regulation in one of the world’s most tightly governed financial sectors.
The latest round, aimed at helping employees meet ESOP-related tax obligations, doubles General Atlantic’s stake to 9% as PhonePe gears up for a $1.35 billion public listing.
Fintech major PhonePe's diversification efforts have shown promise, with revenue soaring, however, the company is yet to achieve profitability.
The proposed IPO is a pure OFS or offer for sale with participation from Walmart and investors Tiger Global and Microsoft
Phonepe's adjusted EBITDA (excluding ESOP costs) more than doubled to Rs 1,477 crore from the previous year
The aggregator license is part of the RBI’s regulatory framework aimed at tightening oversight of digital payment intermediaries and ensuring consumer protection.
The move follows the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) tightened Payment Aggregator (PA) and Payment Gateway (PG) guidelines, issued on September 15, which bar PAs from facilitating payments to entities with whom they lack a direct contractual relationship.
PhonePe said the collaboration will offer SMICC's lending expertise through PhonePe's reach, enabling easier credit access for underbanked micro-merchants.
In a statement, the RBI said a statutory inspection of the company was conducted by the central bank with reference to its operations for the period from October 2023 to December 2024
To be sure, IPO-bound PhonePe still dominates the UPI payments landscape, with a little over 45 percent market share, so these figures do not shift the competitive landscape materially
IPO likely to be sized at Rs 10,000–13,000 crore ($1.2–1.5 billion) and will be a mix of fresh issue and offer for sale. Walmart, Tiger Global and General Atlantic likely to be among the key investors who might seek part-monetisation via the IPO
During a meeting held on August 29, government officials also sought suggestions from the industry on the rules for the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025
Ahead of its upcoming IPO, the country’s largest mobile payments player is looking to augment its revenue with multiple cobranded credit card partnerships
Shivnath Thukral will be part of the leadership team at PhonePe and work closely with founders Sameer Nigam and Rahul Chari to strengthen policy engagement and drive strategic initiatives
PhonePe enters co-branded credit card space with UPI-enabled offering in partnership with HDFC Bank
The deal would value the fintech company at about $15 billion, and PhonePe is planning to submit a draft red herring prospectus for the listing by as early as August, says report
As per the NPCI database, POP is currently the 21st largest UPI player in the country, processing 13.6 million transactions in May 2025, with a total transaction value exceeding Rs 500 crore.
Daruwala, a veteran with over three decades of banking experience, retired from Standard Chartered in April after serving as the CEO for nine years. Before that, she was with ICICI Bank for 26 years.
The Walmart-owned PhonePe is the country’s largest mobile payment company with close to 50 percent market share
PhonePe CEO Sameer Nigam and Razorpay CEO Harshil Mathur have also been elected to the governing council, which in the past has been accused of toeing the line of 'big tech' firms
PhonePe is the largest UPI player with 47 percent volume and over 50 percent value market share