mobile-payment-platform

India Mobile Payment & Fintech Platforms Preparing for IPO

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With a huge population and its affinity towards the mobile / smartphones, India is one of the most attractive market for fintech disruption driven by increasing high speed internet penetration. Penetration of digital C2B [Consumer 2 Business] payments (cards, UPI, wallets) is expected to increase multi-fold to touch 1/3rd of the transactions by 2025. UPI payments are expected to grow at ~50% CAGR driven by UPI QR payments for merchants. Debit Cards & Credit cards are expected to grow at ~23% CAGR. Overall share of UPI is expected to increase 50-55% of digital payments by 2025, while cards would be 40-45%.

Sensing this opportunity a decade ago, Vijay Shekar Sharma ventured to found Paytm, the leading mobile payment platform with 150-200 Mn active users and 15+ Mn merchant having adopted the payments channel with 120,000 using its PoS terminals. Ambitions didn’t stop for Sharma backed by Venture capitalists such as Softbank, ANT Financials and

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UPI Mobile Payments Growing Exponentially

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UPI mobile payments through mobile apps has been one of the biggest contributors to retail digital transactions in India. The pay mode now accounts for around half the retail digital transactions in volume terms, while its value share is around 10% (due to relatively small average per transaction value compared to NEFT/IMPS). UPI’s market share gains have mainly come at the expense of other traditional digital pay-modes such as NEFT, Credit cards and PPIs (pre-paid instruments like mobile wallets). Some contributing factors to the success of UPI have been Demonetization, mobile-first approach, instant bank-bank fund transfers, subsidy on transaction costs, growing penetration of mobile phones as well as Internet connectivity and early adoption by

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Chinese FinTechs Desperate for Slice of Indian Consumer Finance

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In the midst of a deep down consumer financing crisis by Indian Fintech Startups, guess who is at the Gateway of India, Mumbai asking for NBFC license to operate in the Indian FinTech space. Yes! More than 2 dozen Chinese Dragons are waiting at the RBI gate in Mumbai.

What’s so special about Chinese Fintech Companies ?
Flush with funds, they target customers in the sub-prime segment [No CIBIL Score or a Score of just 500-550] and offer small-ticket loans (mainly pay cheque loans) which are short term in nature and profitable. There has been a regulatory clampdown in China last year which

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Indians embrace Digital Payments – JAM Pays Off

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The Government of India’s push for digital transactions which started from 2016 using JAM trinity (JanDhan, Aadhar and Mobile) is helping in changing the consumer preference structurally. This structural shift in the consumer preference will also help the credit card industry going forward.

Credit Card outstanding in India is just ~6% of debit card spends and this has not improved meaningfully in recent times. If we look at the composition of digital transaction over

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Micro Payments and Small Merchants – Next Big Story

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The Payment ecosystem in India comprised of (1) RTGS for high value payments – Corporate and Government, (2) NEFT/NACH for low value payments, that mainly supported Salary and SME Business. In recent years, the micro-value payments segment has seen the introduction of a number of products like digital wallets, UPI etc. This has driven the lower end of the pyramid to the payments ecosystem, fulfilling the
government’s financial inclusion objective.

Growth of UPI – The value of transactions through UPI surpassed that of cards last year at ~Rs120 tn. This was in part driven by incentivization in the form of cashbacks etc. and hence is expected to moderate slightly from these levels as

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What are the Key Digital Payment Trends in India ?

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In the Indian payment eco-system, consumer behavior is being shaped by government policies and regulatory changes, tech changes and changing business models, all of which are reshaping the competitive landscape. JAM – Jan Dhan, Aadhar, Mobile. For the first time a financial inclusion program is talking about credit and insurance compulsorily. Saving Account is merely a way to reach the customer. This is also a sign of convergence.

P2P payment draft guidelines show the regulator’s willingness to reduce uncertainty. Both government and regulator have realized that driving competition is the key to achieve mass inclusion and less cash. Limited number of players cannot deliver on such a huge untapped opportunity across the BFSI segment.

Changing business model and competitive landscape

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