PhonePe which competes with Amazon Pay, Google Pay and Paytm is currently accepted at over 3 mn merchant outlets across 130 cities. It crossed the one billion deal milestone in November 2018
This year, PhonePe is focussed on bringing more partners across categories, including travel, commute, food, hyper-local, retail and entertainment on the platform
PhonePe via Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) plans to get into a number of new verticals, including fee payments in schools and colleges, payments at hospitals and other services
Alibaba, Paytm and MobiKwik all use QR codes as a main offline payment option
The investment is part of the $500-million plan that Flipkart has chalked out for its mobile wallet in an attempt to stay ahead in competition with Paytm wallet, Google's Tez and BHIM
On Wednesday, the NPCI which runs the UPI said that the volume of transactions on the network in the month of July stood at 235.65 million
The company had also hit an annualised total payment value run rate of $20 billion in the month of May
PhonePe wants to dethrone its Alibaba and SoftBank-backed rival, Paytm, claiming that additional capital that Walmart will bring to the table will help it grow much faster
Firm claims it has the largest UPI app for merchants in India catering to over 25,000 users
Flipkart-owned digital payments firm says it has tied up with 25,000 merchants
As it is in contravention to the UPI guidelines of interoperability
ICICI Bank says it blocked all UPI transactions made through PhonePe due to security concerns