Heaping praises on HDFC Bank CEO, Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma said that he hoped to acquire just 10% of Aditya Puri’s cast banking knowledge. “I think HDFC is the defining bank of this country. No other bank has lead the space for so many decades. Mr Puri is the most jovial banker I know, talking to him is like learning life lessons beyond financial lessons. I wish I learn just 10% of banking from him, as much he knows,” Vijay Shekhar Sharma told in an interview to ET Now.

Paytm Mall, the e-commerce venture backed by China’s Alibaba Group, is looking to deepen ties with regional retailers as well as partner with top online grocer BigBasket to compete with Walmart-controlled Flipkart and Amazon’s local unit, a company executive said. Patym Mall, owned by Paytm E-Commerce, is currently the third biggest player in India’s rapidly-growing online retail space.

New Delhi: In the first week of February Paytm’s founder and chief executive officer Vijay Shekhar Sharma met board member Mark Schwartz in Canada. Schwartz, who’s also on the board of SoftBank Group Corp., had a proposal for him. Schwartz wanted to introduce Sharma to the world’s most renowned investor, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Mumbai: Berkshire Hathaway Inc has picked up a 25 billion rupees (USD 356 million) stake in the parent of digital payments firm Paytm, a source said, its first investment in an Indian startup as it forays into the financial payments sector.

The conglomerate run by billionaire Warren Buffett confirmed in an email that Berkshire had invested in One97 Communications Ltd.

Paytm Payments Bank is still not allowed to add new customers and there is uncertainty over when this restriction would be lifted, said Paytm founder and Chief Executive Officer Vijay Shekhar Sharma.

At a mutual fund summit on Thursday, Sharma said he had a meeting with Reserve Bank of India (RBI) officials on the issue earlier during the day, but refrained from divulging details of the meeting.

Bengaluru: One97 Communications, the parent entity of Paytm has announced the launch of its AI Cloud computing platform “Paytm AI Cloud for India” for developers, startups and enterprises. The platform is mainly aimed at offering business-centric apps for organizations that need high-quality solutions for cloud computing, automate their workflow, easy payments, messaging and customer engagement without the hassle of managing hardware and software.

With an aim to expand its share in India’s growing online retail market, Paytm Mall targets a three-fold increase in its annualised gross sales, taking it up to $10 bn-mark by March 2019. Owned by Paytm E-commerce Pvt Ltd., Paytm Mall has ramped-up its efforts to expand the business.

Given how every depositor gets a digital debit card, Paytm Payments Bank has in less than a year of its launch notched up a large outstanding debit card user base.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data show the mobile wallet-to-payments bank entity had 39.12 million outstanding debit cards at the end of May.

New Delhi: Paytm, the digital payments provider run by One97 Communications Pvt. Ltd, has acquired savings management application Balance Tech for an undisclosed sum, the company said on Thursday.

As part of the acquisition, Balance Tech’s six-member team, including founders Ankit Kumar and Abhishek Malik, will join Paytm’s product and design department, the company said in a statement.

The widely heralded Jio moment of the mutual fund industry is right around the corner. Paytm is set to go live with its mutual fund distribution platform, Paytm Money, anytime this month. However, mutual fund distributors, which at the last count accounted for Rs 1.8 trillion of industry assets, are confident that there is no need for them to reshuffle their business model and reiterated the importance of timely advice for investors.

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