The central bank is worried about banks not doing enough to boost their market share vis-a-vis fintechs, but there is little incentive for private sector lenders to up their UPI game.
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Vijay Shekhar Sharma has focused on improving compliance, cutting costs and recovering market share after the RBI shut down his payments bank last year. The fintech major is yet to recover to its earlier highs, but its turnaround is gathering momentum.
It reported losses in Q2 and Q3, its financial services business is reeling and its payments business is growing but earning less. The Gurugram-based fintech needs a turnaround.
The P2P lending platform is the only one that is still doing substantial business after the central bank tightened the rules last August, virtually shutting down the sector. It has carried on as though the new rules don’t exist.