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Paytm is clearly ahead of competition, says CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Paytm is bigger than everybody else combined in the market, added the Paytm CEO

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma
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Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Peerzada AbrarYuvraj Malik Bengaluru
Infosys co-founder and Aadhaar architect Nandan Nilekani says Paytm founder and Chief Executive Vijay Shekhar Sharma is “democratising digital payments in the country and nobody has done a better job than him.” Nilekani also threw a challenge to Sharma to build Aadhaar-enabled payments system and allow Paytm to work on feature phones. In an interview with Peerzada Abrar & Yuvraj Malik, Sharma says when it comes to paying merchants; Paytm clearly dominates the market share. Edited excerpts:

At what stage has India leapfrogged in the fintech sector and have we gone beyond the WhatsApp moment in the financial sector? 

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