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Indian Fintech PhonePe Introduces Mobile App Store

PhonePe announced the consumer launch of its Indus Appstore, at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. Indus Appstore is PhonePe’s attempt at creating “a more competitive and localized mobile app store economy for India, which is already the largest mobile apps download market globally.” The session… Read More

Indian Fintech PhonePe Introduces Option to View Credit Bureau Scores Without Additional Costs

PhonePe announced the launch of a new ‘Credit’ section on its platform. The new section will allow users “to view their credit bureau score without any additional cost, conveniently manage their credit/ Rupay cards and repay loans and credit card bills.” The Credit bureau report also… Read More

Indian Fintech PhonePe Crosses 500M Lifetime Registered Users

PhonePe recently announced that it has crossed 500 million lifetime registered users on its platform. With this milestone, 1 in 3 Indians are now on PhonePe, the Fintech firm claims. The company is the first Indian Internet company to “have reached this scale globally.” This… Read More

Indian Fintech PhonePe Launches Indus Appstore Developer Platform

PhonePe announced the launch of the Indus Appstore Developer Platform. With this launch, Indus Appstore is inviting all Android app developers to register and upload their apps using the self-serve developer platform. These apps will be listed on the soon to be launched “Made-in-India” Indus… Read More

Indian Fintech PhonePe Introduces Stock Broking Platform

PhonePe announced its foray into stock broking with Share(dot)Market, under its subsidiary PhonePe Wealth Broking Pvt. Ltd. Share(dot)Market elevates discount broking by “providing market intelligence, quantitative research-based WealthBaskets, a scalable technology platform, and great customer experience for investors and traders alike.” Share(dot)Market is available as… Read More

India’s PhonePe Forays Into Stock Broking with Share(dot)Market Platform

PhonePe, an India-based digital payments and financial services firm, announced its entry into the stock broking industry with the launch of Share(dot)Market. The new platform comes under its subsidiary, PhonePe Wealth Broking Pvt. Ltd. Share(dot)Market aims to redefine discount broking by offering a suite of… Read More

Indian Fintech PhonePe Launches POS Solution for Merchant Partners

PhonePe announced the launch of its Point-of-sale (POS) device that enables merchants to accept payments via Debit Cards, Credit Cards and UPI, providing them with a simple and seamless settlement experience. The device comes preloaded “with the PhonePe POS App and supports transactions through tap/swipe/dip and… Read More

Indian Fintech PhonePe Group Introduces Account Aggregator Services

PhonePe Group, which recently received the NBFC-AA license from RBI, announced the launch of its Account Aggregator (AA) services through its wholly-owned subsidiary PhonePe Technology Services Pvt Ltd (PTSPL). PTSPL’s Account Aggregator service “will allow Indian consumers to consent to and share all their financial… Read More

Indian Fintech Platform PhonePe Secures Additional $200M in Funding from Walmart

PhonePe, one of India’s largest Fintech platforms, announced it has raised an additional $200 million in primary capital from Walmart, at a pre-money valuation of $12 billion. This new funding reportedly comes as “a part of PhonePe’s ongoing fundraise of up to $1 billion in… Read More

India’s Fintech Platform PhonePe Acquires $100M in Additional Funding at $12B Valuation

PhonePe, one of India’s largest Fintech platforms, announced it has raised another $100 million in primary capital from Ribbit Capital, Tiger Global, and TVS Capital Funds, at a pre-money valuation of $12 billion. This new investment “follows the recent $350 million primary fundraise that closed… Read More

PhonePe Raises Growth Funds at a $12B Valuation, led by General Atlantic

PhonePe, one of India’s largest Fintech platforms, announced it has raised $350 million in funding from General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, at a pre-money valuation of $12 billion. Marquee Global and Indian investors are also participating in the investment round. The investment marks… Read More

Indian Digital Payments Fintech PhonePe Introduces PhonePe Pulse, an Interactive Data, Insights Portal

India-based PhonePe, a leading Fintech platform that now claims 300 millions users, reveals that it has introduced PhonePe Pulse, which is an interactive website with data, insights and key trends on virtual payments. The PhonePe Pulse website reportedly features millions of transactions made by clients on… Read More

Indian Digital Payments Fintech PhonePe Now Claims 300 Million Users Just 5 Years After Launch

Rahul Chari, CTO and Co-Founder at PhonePe, one of India’s leading payments app providers, recently confirmed that they’ve onboarded 300 million users after launching operations around 5 years back. Chari writes in a blog post that they launched the PhonePe app on August 28, 2016… Read More

Indian Digital Payments Fintech PhonePe Branches Out from Parent Flipkart, Will Secure $700M in Capital from Existing Investors

India-based digital payments firm PhonePe has branched out from its parent company, the Walmart-owned Flipkart Group. PhonePe is now valued at an estimated $5.5 billion, the company confirmed on December 3, 2020. According to the announcement, Flipkart will maintain its own majority stake of 87%… Read More

Indian Fintech PhonePe Partners Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport to Offer Contactless Payment Options

India-based PhonePe, a major digital payments platform, has teamed up with the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) in order to offer a frictionless, contactless, safe, and secure payment option to commuters in Mumbai, which is a major financial center and one of the country’s… Read More

Indian Fintech PhonePe to Support Home Delivery Options via its Digital Payments App During COVID-19 Crisis

India-based PhonePe, a major digital payments platform, will be supporting delivery as an option through its app. The Bengaluru-headquartered Fintech firm will introduce a feature in the “Stores” section of its app, which will allow users to have groceries and other essentials delivered to their… Read More

Google Pay and India’s Digital Payments App PhonePe were Most Frequently Downloaded Fintech Apps in February 2020

Google Pay was reportedly the most downloaded Fintech app (globally) during the month of February 2020 with 15.6 million downloads. It was closely followed by Indian digital payments firm PhonePe’s app which was downloaded 6 million times. For Google Pay, this is notably more than… Read More

Walmart-Owned Indian Digital Payments Platform PhonePe is Planning to Become Full-Fledged Financial Services Firm

India-headquartered PhonePe, a major digital payments platform, has been diversifying its line of products and services, which initially included only a mobile wallet (and a few other services). PhonePe is planning to become a full-fledged financial services firm, and has been working toward this goal… Read More

Walmart Owned PhonePe Acquires $60 Million in Funding to Expand Operations, Compete with Amazon Pay, Google Pay, Paytm

Bengaluru- based PhonePe, a company owned by the world’s largest retail company Walmart, has acquired INR 4.27 billion (appr. $60 million) in capital from its Singapore-headquartered parent firm – as confirmed by the Registrar of Companies filings and several media reports.  According to documents sourced… Read More

National Payments Corporation of India Requests Digital Payments Firm PhonePe to Add Another Banking Partner

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has requested Bengaluru-based digital payments firm PhonePe to work with another banking partner for its Unified Payments Service (UPI) model. PhonePe’s management has reportedly decided to work with Mumbai-headquartered multinational banking and financial services company ICICI Bank. According… Read More

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