News Startups Paytm secures government approval for $6Mn investment in Paytm Payments Services In a sign of relief, Paytm has received approval from a government… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 9, 20242 minute read
Culture & Policy Global News Stripe limits new sign-ups in India to invite-only amid stringent regulatory compliance California-headquartered payments giant Stripe has encountered a temporary roadblock in its India… Soumyadeep SarkarMay 31, 20242 minute read
Apps Business News WhatsApp users in India can now pay businesses through other UPI apps, credit cards WhatsApp may have become a household name when it comes to instant… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 20, 20233 minute read
Internet News Reliance is testing a Paytm-like sound box payments system Reliance is taking a page out of Paytm’s book, it seems. Several… Soumyadeep SarkarAugust 24, 20232 minute read
News Startups Zomato launches its own UPI platform for in-app payments, others expected to follow suit Leveraging the fintech phenomena that India’s UPI has come to be known… Soumyadeep SarkarMay 16, 20233 minute read
Business Culture & Policy News WhatsApp Pay gets Indian payments regulator nod for user cap increment to 100Mn When it comes to making payments online, WhatsApp is not the first… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 15, 20222 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital Pine Labs makes significant majority investment in payments SaaS company Mosambee Digital payment solutions provider Pine Labs has acquired a significant majority stake… Guntas SinghApril 13, 20222 minute read
Business News Startups Paytm sees revenue jump in Q3 2022, but losses continue to grow in first post-IPO earnings report In a late earnings release on Friday, digital payments giant Paytm released… Deepanshu KhandelwalFebruary 5, 20222 minute read
Business News Paytm makes an expected, muted public market debut at ₹1950, shares continue to slide 2021 has a been a year of reckoning for India’s startup ecosystem.… Staff@The Tech PortalNovember 18, 20211 minute read
Internet News Chinese smartphones spearhead India’s digital payments growth: Report After the horrors of 2020, 2021 has been a bountiful year as… Soumyadeep SarkarOctober 19, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups Indian govt. looking to fund ideas for accelerating digital payments adoption in semi-urban and rural India While technology has improved and advanced as the years have passed, much… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 17, 20212 minute read
Business Culture & Policy News India and Singapore join forces to link their fast payments systems UPI and PayNow for instant transfers UPI has revolutionized the payments industry in India and has enabled people… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 14, 20212 minute read
Apps Internet News WhatsApp now fully compliant with data localisation norms for its payments service in India WhatsApp Pay has been stuck in a bureaucratic sea of impediments and… Upneet SinghJuly 29, 20202 minute read
News Merchants in India can soon avail loans through Google Pay Google announced yesterday, that it now plans to offer credit to millions… Chinni SinghJune 26, 20201 minute read
News Startups Payments company Innoviti closes Series C round from FMO and Bessemer Venture Partners Innoviti, the Bengaluru-based payments solution provider, is announcing the close of its… Staff@The Tech PortalJune 10, 20201 minute read
Business News PayPal clocks record surge in transactions amid profit plunge, expects growth to rebound in second quarter As Social Distancing becomes a fibre within our lives due to the… Ayush JainMay 7, 20202 minute read
Apps News Whatsapp Pay to adhere to India’s data protection rules, readies for full-scale roll out: Report Whatsapp Pay has been legally clamped down from being rolled out to… Shalabha SarathApril 24, 20202 minute read
News Startups Stripe lands an additional $600 million in Series G at a $36B valuation It is a well established fact, that the global economy is in… Staff@The Tech PortalApril 17, 20202 minute read
Apps Business News Startups Flipkart-owned PhonePe launches one click payments in partnership with Visa PhonePe, the primarily UPI-powered digital payments services owned by Flipkart (which is… Staff@The Tech PortalMarch 19, 20202 minute read
Apps News UPI doubles transaction limit for credit card, mutual fund payments The National Payments Cooperation of India, which controls the United Payments Interface… Shalabha SarathMarch 5, 20202 minute read
Business News UPI leads digital transactions in India, Bengaluru tops the chart in 2019, says new Wordline report A new report titled ‘Wordline India Digital Payments 2019′ reports that UPI… Upneet SinghFebruary 29, 20202 minute read