The deal is slated to become the second largest acquisition in the Indian digital space, after Walmart's $16-bn buyout of e-commerce behemoth Flipkart in 2018
Changes to deal structure possible, say experts
Mastercard said it worked with 45,000 merchants, 34 issuing banks, 10 acquiring banks, and 30-plus token requestors (including all major payment aggregators) to create 90 million tokens
Vayana Network as part of its Series C round had already raised Rs 283 crore from new and existing investors
The BNPL platform said it is on track to grow three-fold in monthly disbursals to Rs 300 crore in January on a year on year basis.
Solution has been built by PayU and Wibmo, a PayU-owned full stack global PayTech firm, in partnership with major card networks such as Visa and MasterCard, and top issuing banks
In a span of a day M N Srinivasu (Vasu), Ajay Kaushal and Karthik Ganapathy have become the latest demi-gods of Indian entrepreneurial story
'We want to build a platform that can be used by others as well', said Mukherjee
So far, the company has disbursed about $300 million in credit and it now wants to add new products
The latest deal is happening when the Indian payments segment is seeing huge traction
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Launched in 2020, indiagold offers gold-backed loans, gold savings, and gold locker services to over a million consumers in India
Media reports have said Paytm, which will soon come up with its initial public offering (IPO), is also evaluating BillDesk
IT startup DotPe on Friday said it has raised around Rs 200 crore in a funding round led by Naspers firm PayU along with participation from Google and Info Edge ventures
As part of the deal, PaySense founder Prashanth Ranganathan will lead PayU's credit business in India as the CEO of the new entity
The consulting and career start-up helps students get admission into foreign universities
With this investment, PayU is one step closer to offering payments, lending, and wealthtech services in a single stack
The acquisition takes PayU's fintech investment past the $500 million mark
Deal will help PayU develop its credit portfolio in India and other high-growth markets
He said that the company will not require to set up a brick and mortar structure for the Digibank