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Paytm Money opens new Technology Development Centre in Pune, aims to expand the team to 250 engineers & data scientists

Mumbai, 1st April 2021: India’s homegrown digital financial services platform Paytm, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary ‘Paytm Money’ has launched its Technology Development & Innovation Centre in Pune. It also plans to hire over 250 front-end, back-end engineers & data scientists to build new wealth products and services. Paytm Money’s success can be attributed to seamless, hassle-free technology, lower or no cost delivery of stocks & FNO trades, as well as the lowest commission in the industry for best-in-class brokers.

Paytm Money thrives to simplify investments and wealth creation for retail investors, and the new facility at Pune will focus on driving product innovation, specifically for equity, mutual funds, and digital gold. The company’s escalated focus on hiring stems from its commitment to delivering a superlative user experience on the back of robust operational competence, agile technology infrastructure & a team of diverse domain experts.

Varun Sridhar, CEO – Paytm Money said “We are very excited to launch our Pune tech R&D centre and looking forward to developing new wealth management products and disruptions in Pune. We continue our vision to leverage technology to lower costs for our consumers and provide a solid, innovative and stable platform. We need solid engineering talent to ensure we meet our ambitions. Pune is famous for its high-quality education and offers a great talent pool along with good infrastructure & great weather. We believe Pune is poised to become an innovation hub for fintech and was a natural choice for Paytm Money’s expansion plans.”

The company has launched a slew of new products and services aimed at empowering seasoned investors as well as new to investment users. It aims to achieve over 10 million users & 75 million yearly transactions in FY’21 with the majority of users from small cities and towns. It has become the largest platform for Digital Gold and is set to cross 6000 Kgs of Gold volumes. Its recently launched products including equity broking, IPO, ETF & FNO are encouraging new investment users to build a robust portfolio. To increase awareness around wealth products in the country it plans to educate over a million users about different services through education initiatives.

Paytm Money becomes India’s growth enabler for wealth products, aims at 10 million users & 75 million yearly transactions in FY’22

Mumbai: India’s homegrown digital financial services platform Paytm, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary ‘Paytm Money’ is targeting over 10 million users and 75 million yearly transactions in FY’22. The company has become the leading driver of wealth creation in the country with over 50 percent ‘new to wealth services’ users availing investment products including Direct Mutual Funds, Stocks, IPO, F&O, ETF, NPS & Digital gold on the platform. By allowing small ticket investments and allowing trading at 10 INR per order, Paytm Money is encouraging the masses to start managing their wealth actively and in a safe environment, thus promoting financial inclusion.

The company has made deep inroads into the country & now has customers in 99 percent of all pin-codes helping in democratising wealth products & services. It has over 7 million users and has also achieved over Rs 5000 crore in Direct mutual funds investments. Paytm Money aims to register over 150 percent increase in monthly new SIP registrations and a 200% increase in Total Monthly Investment volumes over the next few months. By offering Direct mutual funds users save ~1% in commissions as compared to regular mutual funds and combined with a simple product and 40+ AMCs, investing has become simpler.

The company’s stockbroking initiative is helping to bring in more active direct equity investors in an underpenetrated segment. Paytm Money aims to open over 3.5 lakh by year-end and expects 60% of users to be from small cities. By building a simple platform for investors and traders, making delivery orders free and intraday/FNO at 10 INR per order and ensuring the technology behind is stable & solid, active management of users wealth has become easier. Paytm Money is also enabling wealth creation with investments in Initial Public Offers (IPOs). It has made the process of IPO application completely digital & simple for retail investors across the country to apply for IPOs.

The company aims to retain its top position in the market when it comes to digital gold and is set to cross 6,000 kgs of Gold transacted through the platform. Digital Gold has become an important part of the wealth portfolio as its safe, 24kt pure, easy to buy from 1INR to 1Cr and a user can take delivery of the physical gold. The company has more than 60mn investors in digital gold with many opting for Gold SIP as a regular saving option.

While over 35% of investors are less than 25 years, 80% of investors are less than the age of 35 years of age and 90% are less than 40 years.

Apart from this, the company strives to bring in financial inclusion by educating the masses through initiatives such as Masterclass. So far the response for ETF Masterclass and Foundation Masterclass has been overwhelming. More than 2000 people attended these Masterclasses where experts taught the basics of trading and explained the importance of ETFs to the investors. Paytm Money aims to enable over 1 million Indians to trade and invest in capital markets through its education initiatives.

Varun Sridhar, CEO – Paytm Money said, “We strongly believe that wealth management in the country need to be democratised, embraced, and adopted by all. Technology innovation and a stable product have allowed us to bring direct mutual fund & gold to everyone and offer equity delivery for free and all FN/intraday orders as low as Rs. 10. With our 360-degree approach to providing investment solutions, we have become the leading driver of wealth creation in the country. We are humbled by the trust young investors have shown in Paytm Money, by making it their primary platform for all investments. The next 18 months of innovation, launch of new products and providing a stable platform is going to be our goal. This is just the start.”

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Paytm Money Disrupts Futures & Options trading, with brokerage at Rs. 10 per order

India’s homegrown digital financial services platform Paytm today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Paytm Money now provides Futures & Options trading (F&O) on its platform, along with its other offerings – Stocks, Direct Mutual Funds, ETF, IPO, NPS, and Digital Gold. The platform has launched this service with the most competitive brokerage at Rs. 10 for all F&O trades and the low pricing is without any commitments or packages or contracts. This is in line with its intraday charges of Rs.10, and free for delivery. The pricing disruption will benefit experienced as well as first-time traders to seamlessly trade in futures & options with a best in class product, on their mobile and in a secure environment.

Initially, the company is giving early access to a select user base on Android and Web to receive their feedback. Commercial roll out to all traders & iOS launch will be over the next few weeks. With the launch of F&O on its platform, Paytm Money is aiming at an overall daily turnover of Rs 1.5 lakh crore and 1 million trades a day in the next 18 to 24 months.

Paytm Money has ensured that while it provides for all the features required for a derivative trader, it does not complicate the user interface for a simple investor or a newbie trader which is unique in the industry. The charting provides over 180 studies & patterns usually tracked by the pro traders all in an easy to use interface on one’s mobile. The price alert feature allows traders to get real-time alerts on any FNO contracts. While Paytm Money provides for various calculators, traders can seamlessly check the required margin while placing an order for any contract. Searching for a contract or option on the platform is a breeze & no specific templates are required for the search or addition to watchlists. The dark & light modes across mobile & web platforms provide convenience to traders who are particular about the background colours & fonts. Tracking orders & execution from the Position page has been made very simplistic & engaging. The product hosted entirely on cloud and developed with Paytm’s well-known technology principles will ensure the platform is smooth, fast and can manage very large volumes – an important technology disruption in the wealth management space.

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder & CEO said, “On the mission to bring wealth services to 100 million Indians, the launch of F&O will accelerate our path. This has been made keeping the mobile-first platform in mind. The simple to use low price product is meant to make deep inroads into smaller towns and cities.”

Varun Sridhar, CEO – Paytm Money said, “We are very happy to launch a best in class FNO platform with a super-fast experience, simple interface, built on the cloud to ensure stability, advanced charting & features to support high-frequency traders and most importantly making it simple for new traders to buy their first FNO contract. Our pricing of 10 INR flat per order without any contracts/commitments/conditions brings the overall cost of trading significantly lower and makes it super transparent. We are eagerly looking forward to bring thousands of new traders to the markets. With this, Paytm Money is taking one step further to become India’s most comprehensive & #1 digital wealth management platform.”

With more than 7 million users, Paytm Money has reached 98% of pin codes in India which truly defines that the app is made for Bharat. Almost 50% of Mutual Funds and Stocks investors on the platform are new to the market and more than 60% hail from tier II, tier III cities. More than 60 million people invest in Digital Gold on Paytm & Paytm Money. Given the limited penetration of stock investments in the country, the company sees a high growth trajectory for its stocks broking offering, similar to its Mutual Fund offerings.