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Paytm Payments Bank (PPBL) was an Indian payments bank, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Noida. [3] In the same year, it received the license to run a payments bank from the Reserve Bank of India and was launched in November 2017. [4] [5] [6] In 2021, the bank received a scheduled bank status from the RBI. [7] [8]
In 2017 Paytm became India's first payment app to cross over 10 crore app downloads. [30] The same year, it launched Paytm Gold, [31] a product that allowed users to buy as little as ₹1 of pure gold online. It also launched Paytm Payments Bank [32] [33] and ‘Inbox’, a messaging platform with in-chat payments. [34]
Paytm Payments Bank and Airtel Payments Bank together command over 88% of the deposits in payment banks in India in 2018. According to the Reserve Bank of India 's report on ‘Trend and progress of Banking in India 2017-2018', the payment banks reported losses in the financial year 2017-2018, after a weak performance in the FY 2016-17.
It launched Paytm in 2009 as a digital payments platform to facilitate cashless payments. [11] It owns various businesses and subsidiaries – Paytm Payments Bank, Paytm Payments Gateway, Paytm Payout, Paytm Money, Paytm Insider, Paytm Insurance, Paytm Postpaid, Paytm for Business, Paytm Credit Cards, and Paytm First Games. [11] [12]
Paytm moved quickly to cut ties with the payments bank; Sharma resigned as chair of the bank’s board last week. Paytm is now trying to build relationships with third-party banks, like Axis Bank.
One97 Communications Limited is the parent company of Paytm, a digital payments and financial services company that was launched by Sharma in 2010. [16] In November 2021, Paytm went public raising $2.5 billion at a valuation of $19 billion, making it India's largest initial public offering at that time. [17]
[32] [33] [34] As of August 2021, State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda and Paytm Payments Bank have been live on UPI AutoPay, each registering 660,000, 204,000, and 186,000 mandates, respectively. [35] From 15 March 2022, the government removed the need for debit cards for UPI registration. [36]
Payment banks (currently five banks Airtel Payments Bank, Fino Payments Bank, India Post Payments Bank, NSDL Payments Bank, Jio Payments Bank,Paytm Payments Bank(Paytm payment Bank restricted to deposit money in 2024) have been granted Scheduled bank status). [3] [4] Scheduled Co-operative banks are further divided into 2 types namely: