Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Exactly two years back, Paytm Founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma, keeping Alibaba model in mind, took a plunge into the burgeoning e-commerce space where Amazon and Flipkart (now owned by Walmart) were two dominant forces.Nurturing a little grudge...

Digital payments company Paytm on Saturday said that it will build a "New Retail" model to equip shopkeepers with technology, logistics and marketing capabilities.According to One97 Communications, that owns the brand Paytm, under the new model, "consumers will soon...

Paytm Mall has received the final tranche of its US $4 45 million (about Rs 3,000 crore) funding from SoftBank and Alibaba, a move that will give the online shopping venture of Paytm more financial muscle to take on...

The whopping US $16-billion mega deal by global retail giant Walmart with the country's leading e-tailer Flipkart for majority stake makes India an attractive destination for global majors in the digital space, industry experts said on Wednesday.Kishore Biyani, CEO,...

Mobile-first financial services platform Paytm hopes to cover 10 million merchants across India in three to six months from the existing six million merchant-partners for Quick Response (QR)-based payments, an official said on Thursday.The platform will invest Rs 500 crore in 2018 to...

Amit Sinha, a vice-president overlooking business and human resources at One97 Communications Ltd, the company behind the Paytm app, has been appointed as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of its e-commerce business Paytm Mall, a company statement said on...

Fintech company Paytm on Tuesday unveiled its payments bank becoming the first one to offer cashback on deposits. It aims to become the preferred bank for 500 million Indians by 2020. Customers will also be offered zero charge on all...

Paytm has announced an investment of US $1.4 billion by the SoftBank Group, the Japanese Internet and telecom major, in One97 Communications Limited, the entity that operates India’s largest mobile payments and commerce platform under the Paytm brand. This...

Fintech company Paytm on Wednesday said it will finally launch the operations of its payments bank on May 23. "We are in the process of launching Paytm Payments Bank on May 23. We recently received approval from the Reserve Bank...

Paytm Founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma on Friday said that the firm's mobile wallet business was only a curtain-raiser and the payments bank would be the main show. "We should be a bank (payments bank) by this month-end. Wallet...