Paytm Partners with HDFC Bank in India

Paytm has announced a partnership with HDFC Bank in India to expand its digital banking services in the country. The partnership will see HDFC Bank build solutions for PoS machines, credit products, and payment gateways. This will include Paytm Postpaid, Eazy EMI and Flexi Pay.

The partnership between the two big players in the Indian financial space will empower businesses and help them scale.

“As India’s largest issuing and acquiring bank, we have always endeavored to personalize our offerings to customers-consumers, businesses and corporate houses. Through this partnership we will also be jointly delivering enhanced SmartHub solutions to the market. We believe that this is the start of a great partnership and the cumulative strength of both HDFC Bank and Paytm will help us strengthen our respective leadership positions,” said Parag Rao, Group Head–Payments, Consumer Finance, Digital Banking & IT, HDFC Bank.

The private sector bank's SmartHub solutions is a platform that offers merchants with many options to access tools for their needs like banking, payments, lending, and business solutions.

In addition to this, HDFC Bank will sell Paytm's payment solutions in the Indian market. Both the companies will also launch a co-branded PoS product for the retail sector jointly.