Strength in India, Canada, China helps Walmart International post $27.3 bn net sales; 8.3% decrease
Last October, ahead of the festive season, Amazon had invested Rs 700 crore in Amazon Pay
Maintains top position in UPI apps, followed by Google Pay
The company will donate up to 20 oxygen-generating plants and 20 cryogenic containers for oxygen storage and transportation
Tier-2 & 3 cities and towns continued to contribute over 50% of all online transactions
PhonePe said on Thursday that coronavirus insurance has seen widespread adoption lately with 75 per cent of its policies bought by customers in smaller towns outside the tier-1 cities
The claims from customers of more than Rs 3.5 crore have already been paid
The development comes at a time when UPI has broken a new record, crossing Rs 5 trillion in value in March across 2.73 billion transactions
Wish to convert cash-hardened customer into a digital one: Amazon Pay CEO
Company last year earmarked about Rs 800 crore on marketing.
PhonePe said on Thursday it has taken up six different sponsorships for IPL 2021
SBI was the top remitter on the UPI platform in February, while Paytm Payments Bank led the chart in the beneficiary segment, as per data published by the National Payments Corporation of India
UPI, India's flagship payments platform, recorded 2.29 billion transactions worth Rs 4.25 trillion in February.
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The Walmart-owned firm, which competes with Google Pay, Paytm and Amazon Pay, now processes some 1.07 billion monthly transactions across UPI, cards and wallets
Flipkart saw more than 250 mn customers over a 5-day period during its flagship 'Big Billion Day' sale event, and PhonePe reached milestone of 1 billion monthly payment transactions, McKenna said
In January, on a month-on-month (MoM) basis, PhonePe saw its transactions go up by a little over 7 per cent and their value nearly 5 per cent
Walmart-owned digital payments firm PhonePe has distributed ESOPs (employee stock ownership plans) worth $200 million among its 2,200 employees. Read top news with Business Standard
The digital payments firm has rolled out the compensation to all its employees ranging from software engineers, product managers to customer experience and on-ground sales agents
Google Pay had seen 960-mn transactions amounting to Rs 1.6 trn in November