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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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Topic: IPO

Paytm debacle casts shadow over IPOs for startups, dims stock market mood

At least some of the IPO prospects that have been looking to benefit from the flood of transactions may now rethink the timing and pricing of their issues.

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma compares himself to Elon Musk after shares plunge

Sharma encouraged employees to look past the initial stumble and to focus on the long-term opportunities for bringing digital payments to India's fast-growing internet population.

Paytm CEO’s fixation on delivering record IPO led to first-day flop

The company, with support from leading banks, pushed up both the price and the size of the stock offering to the breaking point.

Paytm shares crash 27% on first day of trading after historic IPO

Paytm shares sank to Rs 1,560.8 compared with the IPO price of Rs 2,150. Retail investors who piled into the offering are now sitting on heavy losses.

IPO frenzy pushes SEBI to propose tighter listing rules on investor exit, cash raised

The proposals from SEBI come as the country is set for a record year for IPOs and follow the RBI's decision to impose limits on borrowers seeking to buy shares of a new listing.

Nykaa’s Falguni Nayar is now India’s wealthiest self-made female billionaire

Nayar, who owns about half of Nykaa, is now worth about $6.5 billion as shares of the firm surged as much as 89% when they started trading Wednesday.

Paytm IPO could prove to be a ‘very high-risk bet’, says fund manager

Paytm’s IPO comes at a time when India has seen a spurt of technology unicorns listing recently, with the stock markets rallying to record highs.

Paytm’s raw power of data — what BlackRock is seeing in India’s biggest IPO

The next step for Paytm and its payments bank is to amalgamate into a full-fledged, unrestricted lender, credit-card issuer and deposit taker. That’s where the pot of gold lies.

Nykaa $711 million IPO fully subscribed on first day of share sale

The sale received bids for 34.7 million shares against 26.5 million offered. Anchor investors bid 60 times more than the shares on offer for their category.

Paytm could skip pre-IPO share sale on valuation differences

Paytm had been seeking a valuation of above $20 billion based on initial investor feedback, while advisers on the deal recommended a lower pricing.

On Camera

From ‘Jai Kisan’ to CVC, Shastri walked the talk. But corruption proved harder to root out

Set up by Lal bahadur Shastri, the Santhanam Committee's key concern was that corruption, once limited to the lower rungs of the bureaucracy, had now infected the All India Services and political leadership.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.