• PhonePe shifts headquarters from Singapore to India before its IPO

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    PhonePe shifts headquarters from Singapore to India before its IPO

    The company stated that as a result of these moves, PhonePe Pvt Ltd-India is now the sole owner of and consolidates under all PhonePe Group businesses and entities.


    Digital Desk: The Walmart-owned fintech startup, PhonePe, announced on Monday that it has finished the last of three processes to change its domicile to India. In the last year, PhonePe has moved all of its operations, including those of its subsidiaries in Singapore and its insurance and wealth-broking companies, to PhonePe Pvt Ltd-India.

    According to a corporate insider who wished to remain anonymous, "PhonePe is one of the major fintech companies, focusing on the India market, and all of its employees are based in the nation, which is why the leadership decided to take these steps."

    The creation of a new employee stock ownership plan and the migration of the ESOPs of more than 3,000 PhonePe group employees were recently approved by the board of PhonePe.

    PhonePe has taken possession of the recently acquired IndusOS Appstore (OSLabs Pte Ltd), which it recently acquired, from Singapore to India following newly liberalised automatic overseas direct investment guidelines.

    The company stated that as a result of these moves, PhonePe Pvt Ltd-India is now the sole owner of and consolidates under all PhonePe Group businesses and entities.

    PhonePe, which was established in December 2015 and has since grown to become one of India's top payment apps, promotes both consumer and business digital inclusion. PhonePe today has over 400 million registered users, which represents one in four Indians.

    Additionally, 99 percent of the country's pin codes' 32 million offline retailers have been digitalized by the corporation.