Vijay Shekhar Sharma

The Union Budget 2017 was presented in the Parliament by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on February 1. While the Budget is clearly strong on macro-economic intent - as is evident from the FM’s focus on agricultural growth, rural development, up-skilling...

Paytm has received final approval of the Reserve Bank to formally launch its payments bank and it expects to start operations next month. According to a PTI report: Payments banks can accept deposits from individuals and small businesses of up...

Paytm recently announced it has instituted a new corporate office in the coastal city of Visakhapatnam. Andhra Pradesh CM N. Chandrababu Naidu was present at the inaugural event to officially welcome the company’s operations in the city. Within the last...

Paytm has today announced the launch of its 12/12 Cashfree Festival, a shopping extravaganza to celebrate the spirit of going cashfree. The offline shopping festival is aimed to introduce millions of new consumers to the convenience of going cashfree...

Buoyed by the rapid adoption of Paytm post demonetization, founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma recently said that the company is on its way to complete two billion transactions this year. The company, which has about 165 million users, also...

Paytm announced today that it would have a deep integration with India Stack to leverage the platform’s open-stack technology and ensure the best possible experience for its customers and merchants. The company has implemented India Stack components like eSign...

Paytm, India’s largest mobile payments and commerce platform, has today updated its app to launch India’s first app point of sale (POS) terminal allowing all small and medium merchants to accept all card payments including Rupay, Visa, MasterCard and...

India’s largest mobile payments and commerce platform, Paytm has recorded an unprecedented surge in transactions at offline retail stores across the country. Owing to the recent demonetization of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes, the company has registered over...

The Government's decision to demonetize Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 rupee notes has changed the market dynamics for Paytm, which is adding million-plus subscribers a day, says the company's founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma. "Not just this, what we are more...

India’s largest mobile payment and commerce platform, Paytm is registering massive growth across India within hours of the Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcing his plans to have a corruption-free India. The Paytm platform saw an overwhelming 435 per cent increase in overall...