India's leading digital payments firm Paytm raises $1.4b from SoftBank

India's leading digital payments firm Paytm raises $1.4b from SoftBank

Vijay Shekhar Sharma and Masayoshi Son in a selfie clicked by Sharma.

Paytm has raised $1.4 billion from SoftBank Group Corp. in the largest funding round by a single investor in India, making the digital payments firm the Japanese company’s biggest bet in India’s start-up ecosystem.

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