Flipkart invests $80 mn into payments arm PhonePe
Phonepe Pvt Ltd, the payment arm of homegrown e-commerce firm Flipkart, has received Rs 518.22 crore ($80 million) in a fresh ....
Impostors may scam UPI users out of their digital money
People transferring money digitally through government-backed Unified Payments Interface (UPI) may be targeted by fraudsters posing ....
PhonePe takes issue with Paytm's claims of UPI dominance
PhonePe, the payments app of e-commerce firm Flipkart, has termed digital payments firm Paytm’s claim of being the largest ....
Google takes on WhatsApp, launches chat option in payments app Tez
In a move to up the ante against WhatsApp’s payments feature, search engine giant Google has introduced a chat option in ....
Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma cries foul over WhatsApp Pay; draws flak from peers
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the umbrella body which oversees digital payments in the country, on Friday ....
WhatsApp rolls out beta version of UPI-based payments feature
After months of speculation, instant-messaging platform WhatsApp has finally started India rollout of its payments service in ....
Will abundant cash supply spoil the m-wallet party?
Without a doubt, digital wallets have been the biggest beneficiary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's November move to scrap high-value ....
ICICI Bank allows UPI transactions through Flipkart's PhonePe
After weeks of confusion and a near-verbal spat between Flipkart's e-wallet PhonePe and ICICI Bank, the private sector lender ....
PayU to widen fintech play, bets on cross-border payments, offline business
Naspers-owned payments gateway PayU India is betting big on the fintech space in India. While its primary focus will be on payments, ....
Now, government to take on VC-backed wallet startups with 'cashback' for BHIM app
The government will soon announce a cashback scheme for users of the Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) app in a bid to boost ....
Flipkart's PhonePe lashes out at ICICI, accuses bank of 'flexing muscle'
The tussle between Flipkart's digital wallet PhonePe and ICICI Bank over the UPI payments issue has taken the form of a public ....
Flipkart halts UPI payments after NPCI reverses stand in ICICI-PhonePe tussle
Flipkart-owned PhonePe has halted payments through the unified payment interface (UPI) option on the e-commerce company's app ....
In U-turn, NPCI tells Flipkart's PhonePe to adhere to UPI norms
Making a U-turn in the tussle between private-sector lender ICICI Bank and Flipkart's digital wallet PhonePe, National Payments ....
ICICI Bank rejects NPCI call to unblock PhonePe
The tussle between ICICI Bank and online retailer Flipkart's digital wallet, PhonePe, isn't likely to end soon with the private-sector ....
Flipkart-owned PhonePe crosses 10 million downloads in two months
Mobile payments entity PhonePe Internet Pvt. Ltd has crossed the 10 million downloads mark on the Google Play Store. The Flipkart-owned ....
Will digital wallets survive the UPI onslaught?
In the last two months that demonetisation has dominated dinner-table conversations, digital wallet Paytm has had a dream run, ....
BHIM app review: Simple, secure and intuitive
It's not even been a week since the BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) app was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and it ....
Paytm Payments Bank gets RBI's final approval
Digital payments firm Paytm has finally got regulatory approval to launch its much-awaited payments bank. "Today, the Reserve ....
Govt to incentivise district administration to boost cashless payments
The government of India has introduced a series of measures to provide incentives to the district administration in order to ....
We'll focus on being a mobile payments firm, says FreeCharge's Rajan
FreeCharge, the digital payments platform of Snapdeal, is increasingly playing an important role in the e-commerce company's ....
It may not be a cakewalk for mobile wallet firms, warn panellists at Techcircle forum
Following the introduction of unified payments interface (UPI)—that empowers users to initiate payment requests from a smartphone ....