From WhatsApp Pay's phased roll out in India to PhonePe's plans of creating world's biggest ATM network in India, here are the day's top headlines
PhonePe continues to expand into newer geographies enabling even local kiranas to accept payments from consumers
Paytm is bigger than everybody else combined in the market, added the Paytm CEO
All the findings in this report are based on transactions held on the Razorpay platform from January 2018 to December 2019
PhonePe, which competes with Alibaba-backed Paytm, Amazon Pay and Google Pay, claimed it is India's first digital payment platform to launch international travel insurance.
PhonePe said there will not be any charges for customers or merchants to avail of this service
Fresh investment comes at a time when CCI has ordered an investigation against Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart on complaints of deep discounting practices and tie-ups with preferred sellers
The Walmart-owned firm has been in talks with several large global investors, to raise up to $1.2 billion
The start-up says Liquid Fund will allow its users to earn higher returns on savings with the ability to withdraw their money instantly 24x7
Its co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Sameer Nigam tells Yuvraj Malik about the firm's "platform" strategy, monetization, and future capital-raising plans
The digital payments platform has over 175 million registered users in the country
The company said it is accepted as a payment option across 80 lakh micro, small and medium enterprises in over 215 cities in India
In July this year, PhonePe had received a fund infusion of about Rs 698 crore from its parent firm
According to previous RoC filings, the net loss in 2017-18 was Rs 791 crore, way higher than the Rs 129 crore in FY17.
Children are no longer awareness builders; recent ads have portrayed them as key influencers in family purchases
Hopefully the momentum at both PhonePe and Paytm will spur more Indian entrepreneurship, feeding a rebirth in India's tech sector not seen since the IT-outsourcing boom two decades ago
Aims to provide one-clock entry to entry point to several online merchant platforms on 'PhonePe Switch'
PhonePe has been aggressive at growing its user and merchant base
A recent Morgan Stanley report says, the Walmart group firm has potential to become a $20 bn company at current growth rate
The digital payments firm clocks 335 million transactions in July