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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
TopicMobile digital payments

Topic: Mobile digital payments

Paytm launches ‘Card Soundbox’ to let merchants accept both UPI & card payments

The launch of the payment device, with instant audio payment alerts, comes as rival Pine Labs announced a similar device at one-third of the cost.

Prosus-backed PayU to acquire payment gateway company BillDesk for Rs 345 bn

BillDesk, backed by Visa, was one of the pioneers of online payments in India alongside larger rival Paytm. Its services are common especially among retailers in the country.

Bill Gates praises India’s digital finance policies as a model for the world

Citing India's platforms for universal identification and digital payments, Gates said the policies drastically reduced the cost and friction of distributing aid to the poor.

50 nations promised cash to fight Covid. Few, like India and Bangladesh, are doing it right

India’s trinity of Jan Dhan, Aadhaar, and mobile communications — or JAM — can work wonders if it is used extensively to reform citizen–state engagement.

Indian company, not Chinese, can dominate global payments: Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma

‘India’s payments leader will build a low-cost, highly scalable model in an extremely competitive environment. The winner here can go win anywhere.’

PayTM helping SoftBank wade into Japan’s crowded digital payments space

Dozens of employees of the Indian startup are said to be working in Tokyo on getting the service up and running.

On Camera

With nuke lunacy, Asim Munir joins Pakistan’s Hall of Generals who swapped brains for bluster

Munir indicates that he’s willing to go for broke, even if it risks taking his country “and half the world” down with him. It’s important to understand where he is coming from.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

‘Next war may come sooner than expected, will require whole-of-nation approach’—Army chief

Gen Dwivedi framed Op Sindoor not just as retaliation to Pahalgam, but as demonstration of India’s capability to fight multi-domain conflicts with integration between services & agencies.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.