PhonePe becomes largest UPI player, leaps ahead of Paytm and Tez

India, August 1st, 2018: PhonePe, India’s fastest growing digital payments platform today announced that it has emerged as the single largest player on the UPI network, ahead of other payment apps like Paytm and Tez. PhonePe also crossed the 100Mn transaction mark in July, becoming the fastest Indian digital payments company to achieve this feat.  

NPCI reported that its UPI platform saw 236 Mn total transactions in July 2018. Of these PhonePe had the largest market share of 40%.  

Talking about the milestone, Sameer Nigam, CEO and Co-Founder of PhonePe said,” The PhonePe platform has witnessed incredible transaction volume growth over the past few months. Our growth in market share is largely fueled by two factors. One, we have added lakhs of new offline and online merchants on our platform in recent months and are seeing exponential growth in merchant transactions. Two, NPCI recently started blocking any UPI transactions where the sender and receiver bank account number are the same. This block by NPCI has effectively limited the ability of certain companies from incentivizing shell transactions and artificially inflating their UPI numbers. As a result of these two factors, our market share of UPI transactions has jumped to 40% in July. This is validation that, for genuine consumers, PhonePe is their preferred UPI app of choice.”

PhonePe crossed the 100 Mn user mark in June, and the company was also won the Outstanding Merchant UPI Player award at the NPCI excellence awards earlier this year. The PhonePe platform drives nearly 70% of overall merchant transactions on the UPI network. 

PhonePe has been rapidly expanding its merchant base and is now accepted as a payment option across 3 Lakh offline and online merchant outlets spanning food, travel, groceries, taxi cabs, movie ticketing etc.  

About PhonePe 

Bengaluru-headquartered PhonePe is the fastest growing payments company in India. With over 100 million users, the PhonePe app drives the highest number of merchant UPI transactions in India. Using PhonePe, users can send and receive money, recharge mobile, DTH, datacards, make utility payments and buy gold. PhonePe is accepted as a payment option across 3 lakh offline and online merchant outlets covering food, travel, groceries, movie tickets etc. PhonePe also offers microapps within its platform allowing customers to avail Ola, RedBus and Goibibo Hotel services. 

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