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Preparing to love China once again
India is warming up to the idea of doing business with China. Little is expected to change in the trade skew, but Chinese foreign direct investment will be a welcome boost.
16 Aug 2025
China’s Ant Group to fully exit from Paytm with Rs 3,800 crore stake sale
The Alibaba affiliate intends to sell its remaining 5.84% equity stake in the Indian fintech, which just posted its first profitable quarter.
04 Aug 2025
Paytm has steadied the ship
Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s fintech has reported its first operationally profitable quarter. However, he will need to wait to win back the regulator’s trust for Paytm to scale further.
22 Jul 2025
Out to list, Pine Labs is a hardware business pretending to be a fintech
Its core POS machine business is small and growing slowly, and the company has done little else to justify its high valuation.
10 Jul 2025
Amid results showing signs of recovery, Vijay Shekhar Sharma teases a return for Paytm wallets
They were the app’s flagship feature until the RBI shut down new deposits into Paytm wallets a year and a half ago.
06 May 2025
Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma forgoes 21 million ESOPs after SEBI heat
The market regulator had sent a show-cause notice to the fintech as promoters are not supposed to be issued ESOPs.
16 Apr 2025
In Juspay vs fintechs, economics will decide the winner
The battle between four of India’s major fintechs and the payments orchestration leader is being fought on the issues of interoperability and fair competition. Ultimately, though, commercial factors will trump all else.
31 Mar 2025
Indian fintech’s gold rush is yet to take off
Fintech startups have only been able to corner a small part of the value in gold-linked financial products like gold loans and digital gold even as gold prices have shot up. Regulatory changes may pose a further challenge.
23 Mar 2025
Is the worst over for Paytm?
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.
27 Feb 2025
Can WhatsApp fix its payments business in India?
The messaging giant is a minnow when it comes to payments. Relief from NPCI could be just the fillip it needs to finally take on leaders PhonePe and Google Pay.
13 Jan 2025