Paytm applies for RBI licence to revive its digital wallet
One97 Communications has applied through Paytm Payments Services for a prepaid payment instrument licence from the RBI. If approved, the move would bring Paytm Wallet back, strengthening its consumer-payments offering and reducing reliance on partner-bank rails.
Paytm parent One97 has applied through Paytm Payments Services for an RBI PPI licence to relaunch its digital wallet. Approval would restore a key consumer-payment product, reduce dependence on partner banks and deepen Paytm’s merchant and consumer payments ecosystem.
Why this matters
The application advances Paytm's wallet-revival priority, highlighted with enterprise AI in its Q1 profit update, after Q1 gains pointed to AI monetisation and payments upside and shares fell following Q1 FY27 results.
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