digital payments

TMT

18 September, 2017

Google fast-tracks payments initiative with launch of UPI-based Tez

After months of speculation, search engine giant Google on Monday announced its foray into India’s burgeoning digital payments market with ......

TMT

15 September, 2017

Digital payments not a one-player-takes-all game: PhonePe co-founder Rahul Chari

For a rather late entrant into the digital payments segment, Flipkart-owned PhonePe has claimed high growth figures in a short ......

TMT

05 September, 2017

PayPal shortlists 5 fin-tech startups for India Incubator

Global digital payments company PayPal Holdings, Inc. has shortlisted five fin-tech startups for the fifth edition of its India Incubator ......

TMT

02 August, 2017

Bajaj Finance buys stake in MobiKwik at $327 mn valuation

Bajaj Finance Ltd said on Wednesday it will acquire a 10.83% stake in mobile wallet company MobiKwik for about Rs 225 crore ......

TMT

31 July, 2017

Did Axis Bank lap up FreeCharge for a song, or pay a tad too much?

India's third-largest private-sector lender Axis Bank snapped up beleaguered digital wallet firm FreeCharge for $60 million (Rs 385 crore) last ......

TMT

27 July, 2017

Axis Bank acquires FreeCharge for $60 mn

Private-sector lender Axis Bank said on Thursday it has agreed to acquire e-commerce firm Snapdeal's digital payments platform FreeCharge for ......

TMT

08 July, 2017

Axis Bank may acquire wallet firm FreeCharge

Private sector bank Axis Bank has emerged as one of the key players in the race to acquire Snapdeal-owned payments ......

Opinion

29 June, 2017

Can traditional banks keep up with fin-tech innovations?

Banking in India, up until a few years ago, was somewhat like visiting a distant relative. You had to set ......

TMT

19 June, 2017

Will Eko Financial's contrarian bet on India's cash economy pay off?

Santosh Yadav, a migrant labourer working in Delhi, visits a retail store every week to send money to his family ......

Premium

TMT

19 June, 2017

Company watch: BillDesk reaps dividends from early start, digital payments boom

Long before words such as Paytm, MobiKwik and digital payments entered everyday vocabulary in India, a team of three former ......