PhonePe, a leading digital payments and financial services platform in India, is gearing up for a public debut. Owned by Walmart and headquartered in Bangalore, the company has filed confidential draft papers with India’s market regulator, SEBI, to raise $1.35 billion through a pure offer for sale (OFS). This method,...
Powered by Digital Public Infrastructure India’s Masses Modernize
A G20 policy document prepared by the World Bank says that India has achieved financial inclusion targets in just 6 years which would otherwise have taken at least 47 years. Transaction accounts from approximately one-fourth of adults in 2008 are now over 80 percent” the report says. *UPI: A Unified Payments...
Digital Literacy Empowers India’s Population
Digitzatiob in India is transforming businesses and governments. Be it paying a vegetable vendor through a United Payment Interface -- a system that powers multiple bank accounts into a single mobile application and also caters to the “Peer to Peer” collect requests which can be scheduled and paid per requirement...
Walmart's Acquired Digital Payment Business in India Flourishes
In 2018, Walmart Inc. paid $16 billion for control of India’s e-commerce company, Flipkart Online Services, and as part of the deal it got a little-noticed digital payment subsidiary called PhonePe (pronounced "phone pay" and meaning "on the phone" in Hindi). Currently, the business is one of India’s leading digital...