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The rise and stunning fall of Paytm, which once had India’s largest IPO but is now the target of a central bank crackdown that could kill its business Nicholas Gordon March 9, 2024 at 10:05 PM
However, that is still below Paytm's current price of about 727 rupees. And despite the near 6% jump on the day, the stock is still down about 4.5% since the RBI clampdown on Jan. 31.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in India, Paytm contributed ₹ 10 to every single user who pays to the PM CARES Fund via their app; within ten days they had collected ₹ 100 crores in their app. Their 1,200 employees contributed 15 days or even a few months of their salaries to the fund. [96]
On 27 February, due to mounting worries about the coronavirus outbreak, various U.S. stock market indices including the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500 Index, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted their sharpest falls since 2008, with the Dow falling 1,191 points, its largest one-day drop since the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
The use of digital payments increased significantly in the past few years, with the key reasons being the demonetization initiative announced by Indian Government in 2016 and the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020. Due to demonetization, the number of cash transactions decreased as the old currency was replaced by new ones to put an end to illegal ...
Paytm, one of India's first startups to go public, said its consolidated revenue rose 38% to 28.51 billion rupees, with the payments business contributing 61% to the total.
On 20 February 2020, stock markets across the world suddenly crashed after growing instability due to the COVID-19 pandemic.It ended on 7 April 2020. Beginning on 13 May 2019, the yield curve on U.S. Treasury securities inverted, [1] and remained so until 11 October 2019, when it reverted to normal. [2]
In 2015, Paytm Payments Bank Limited received in-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India to set up a payments bank and was formally inaugurated on November 28, 2017. [ 6 ] [ 16 ] In the financial year 2020, the bank facilitated more than 485 crore transactions worth ₹4.6 lakh crore. [ 17 ]