The license, granted by the country's payments authority, came as Paytm Payments Bank will cease to operate on 15 March, following regulatory action due to non-compliance with certain norms.
Walmart bought a controlling stake in Flipkart in 2018, giving it ownership of PhonePe. The company said last month it would remain a majority stakeholder in both the companies.
General Atlantic is likely to lead the round with an investment of $450- $500 million, making PhonePe the most valuable Indian financial tech firm, surpassing Razorpay and Paytm.
PhonePe, India’s leading digital payments provider with more than 175 million users, is the largest of a plethora of local start-ups that relied on Yes Bank.
In the centuries to come, economist Bibek Debroy's Mahabharata will attain the importance we attach to the texts of Shankara, Ramanuja, and Madhvacharya.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.
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