Vijay Shekhar Sharma

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...

Paytm, one of India’s largest mobile payments and commerce company, announced on March 16, 2017 that it has launched bill payments service for Canadians. This move marks the entry of the first Indian consumer service startup in the Canadian...

Chinese e-commerce major Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, along with investment firm SAIF Partners, are set to invest US $200 million in Paytm’s online marketplace unit. Alibaba Singapore E-Commerce Pvt. Ltd will invest US $177 million in Paytm E-Commerce Pvt. Ltd—a...

With hundreds of employees being handed out pink slips by companies such as Snapdeal and Stayzilla, Paytm is walking into the ring by offering generous job offers to laid-off staffers. Founder and CEO, Paytm, Vijay Shekhar Sharma tweeted: “Hello, Tech/Product...

Spurred by demonetization, online payments platform Paytm clocked Rs 5,000 crore worth of transactions in the month of January, Paytm's founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma said. "We clocked Rs 5,000 crore worth of transactions in January alone, that's 200 million transactions...