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Paytm founder's Pai Platforms testing ride-hailing services on ONDC

For instance, other platforms, such as Yaary, a group representing Hyderabad's auto rickshaw and taxi drivers, launched their ride-hailing service on ONDC in December last year

NPCI issues guidelines for merchant acquisition on BHIM Aadhar Pay

BHIM Aadhaar Pay enables merchants to receive digital payments from customers over the counter through Aadhaar authentication, according to the NPCI website

Paytm's UPI transactions fall for 3rd straight mth, market share contracts

However, the Noida-based company has continued to retain its spot as the third largest player in the ecosystem because other players are considerably smaller in comparison to the fintech major

Bhavesh Gupta 3rd in senior role at Paytm to resign, more may put in papers

Gupta's resignation comes just as the firm is set to announce its annual and fourth quarterly results. Gupta resigned from his position at the company citing personal reasons

Janhvi Kapoor opens Chennai family home for Airbnb's 'Icons' experience

Nestled in lush greenery, the Kapoor family home in Chennai spans over four acres

NPCI, Bank of Namibia ink an agreement to develop UPI-like system

The development follows NPCI's push to take UPI rails international after breaking into other markets such as France, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Mauritius

Infibeam's CCAvenue partners with Shivalik SFB to improve merchant access

Small finance bank's account holders will be able to make payments on websites 'powered' by CCAvenue, according to agreement

Groww & Worldline join growing club of India's online payment aggregators

This year, major players such as Amazon Pay, Digio, CCAvenue, Decentro, MSwipe, Tata Pay, Zoho, Zomato, among others, received a final nod from the regulator to operate as payment aggregators

Fino Payments Bank Q4 results: Net profit rises 14% to Rs 25.21 crore

On a sequential basis, the company's net profit rose 10 per cent from Rs 22.80 crore in Q3 FY24

UPI credit line: NPCI may go easy on interchange fee for transactions

Could be kept at 1-1.2% in a bid to push adoption

RBI cancels Acemoney (India's) NBFC licence citing violation of guidelines

The development follows a series of actions on other players in the industry on account of non-compliance

PayU invests $5 million in cross-border payments start-up BRISKPE

BRISKPE will use the funding to improve its product and service offerings, expand its team, and scale its services

RBI proposes 'digital-view' of loans to ensure transparency to borrowers

A digital view will provide a host of details to ensure that customers have prior information about potential lenders to make an informed decision on a loan product

CRED to roll out payment checkout terminals to merchants this year

The devices will be interoperable and UPI users can pay through the checkout terminals using any application

Fintech players likely to request RBI for a simpler merchant KYC process

It has proposed that payment aggregators will be required to undertake Contact Point Verification (CPV) of entities which involves physical verification of customers

RBI directs Talkcharge to stop PPI, wallet issuance; refund balances

The fintech firm offers services such as cashbacks, coupons, and wallets to customers

Paytm Payments Bank's Mukund Barsagade joins Lendingkart as Group CFO

Mukund Barsagade has previously worked with organisations such as GE Capital, Experian, Transamerica, Utkarsh Small Finance Bank, and Fino Payments Bank in various finance leadership roles

PayU gets RBI's in-principle approval to operate as payment aggregator

The company said it can start onboarding new merchants on its platform with the in-principle approval

Razorpay forays into UPI infrastructure space, offers UPI Switch

Razorpay plans to offer the service to more banks in the future, the company's chief executive officer (CEO), Harshil Mathur said

Fintech major BharatPe launches an 'all-in-one' payment acceptance device

The device enables transactions via different methods such as point-of-sale (PoS), quick response (QR) code, tap-and-pay and traditional card payment options such as debit and credit cards