Story of BillDesk and how it became India's largest bill payment platform

Founded by three former executives of Arthur Andersen, it initially offered banks a platform that enabled their customers to pay bills from their homes

On Monday, Naspers-owned Prosus terminated the $4.7-billion deal to acquire India's leading payments aggregator BillDesk. Read the story here.
 

The following story, published on September 1, 2021, narrates BillDesk's journey to becoming India's largest bill payment platform.

To hark back to a time when digital payment services were unavailable seems inconceivable today, but getting people then to use a payment gateway to make bill payments or book movie or railway tickets was a Herculean task. In 2000, three former Arthur Anderson colleagues decided to build a payment services layer for the banking sector.

  
M N Srinivasu ('Vasu'), Karthik