Cashfree raises funds from SBI

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Bengaluru-based Cashfree, a digital payments and banking technology company, has raised an undisclosed amount from State Bank of India (SBI).

Cashfree provides a full-stack payments solutions platform, enabling over 1 lakh businesses in India and across the globe to accept and disburse payments online through a single integration.

Currently ranked among the leading payment service providers in India, Cashfree processes transactions worth $20 billion annually. Apart from India, Cashfree’s products are used in 8 other countries, including the US, Canada, and the UAE.

Cashfree secures $35.3 million as part of Series B raise

Akash Sinha, Co-Founder and CEO, Cashfree, said: “The investment from India’s largest bank shows its trust in Cashfree’s innovation and the way we are rapidly scaling up the payments business. This also underscores Cashfree’s role towards building a payments ecosystem that enables the fastest and easiest way to collect payments and make payouts for growing businesses. As we work towards digitising the economy, we remain committed to bringing uniformity, transparency and a reduced turnaround time to digital transactions among Indian businesses. The investment fits perfectly with our growth strategy as we continue to focus on customer experience and product innovation”.

Incubated by PayPal, Cashfree is backed by Apis Partners, Smilegate and Y Combinator. Cashfree is used by Zomato, CRED, Nykaa, Delhivery, Acko, and Shell, among others, for various business payment needs such as e-commerce payment collection, vendor payments, and marketplace settlements.

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Digital payments soar in December 2020

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With the continued upturn in economic activities as well as year end spends, digital payments registered robust growth in December across all channels. Data released by the National Payments Corporation of India revealed that transactions on the UPI platform rose to ₹4.16-lakh crore in December with a total of 223.41 crore payments processed.

Transactions on the Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) rose to 35.56 crore amounting to ₹2.92 lakh crore in December. This was higher than the 33.91 crore payments worth ₹2.76 lakh crore processed on IMPS in November. Significantly, RBI also launched the Digital Payments Index (RBI-DPI), which aims to capture the extent of digitisation of payments across the country.

“The DPI for March 2019 and March 2020 work out to 153.47 and 207.84 respectively, indicating appreciable growth,” the RBI said in a statement.

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