India’s payments market poised to get more crowded

India’s payments market poised to get more crowded

Signage for digital-payments provider Paytm, operated by One97 Communications Ltd., is displayed at a shop selling printer cartridges in Mumbai, India, on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg

The playing field in India’s rapidly expanding market for digital payments is poised to get more crowded as the country races to catch up with China in squeezing out the use of cash, according to the head of the South Asian nation’s payments network.

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