Paytm's IPO launched today: Things you need to know about the company and issue

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Paytm's ₹ 18,300-crore share sale thru Initial Public Offering (IPO), the country's largest ever, opened for subscription today. The corporation is making plans to promote stocks withinside the charge band of ₹ 2,080-2,a hundred and fifty according to proportion and retail buyers can bid for at the least one lot of six stocks as much as a most of 15 lots. At the higher charge band one lot of Paytm stocks will cost ₹ 12,900.

Here are 10 matters to recognize approximately Paytm IPO:

Apart from Paytm's coping with director and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma, buyers like Japan's SoftBank, China's Ant Group and Alibaba in addition to Elevation Capital are some of the pinnacle buyers diluting their stakes withinside the IPO.

Paytm targets to utilise the returns from the IPO for numerous sports like "acquisition of purchasers and traders and offering them with more get admission to to generation and monetary services". The corporation may also spend money on new commercial enterprise ventures, partnerships and acquisitions, and the last price range may be used for different company sports.

Paytm allotted stocks worth ₹ 8,235 crore to extra than one hundred institutional buyers, consisting of the authorities of Singapore, in advance of the country's biggest inventory marketplace listing.

Paytm garnered hobby from 122 institutional buyers who offered extra than 38.three million stocks for ₹ 2,a hundred and fifty apiece, in line with a regulatory report dated November three.

BlackRock Global Funds, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority had been some of the buyers.

Launched a decade in the past as a platform for cell recharging, Paytm grew speedy after ride-hailing corporation Uber indexed it as a brief price option. Its use swelled in addition in 2016 whilst a ban on high-cost foreign money financial institution notes in India boosted virtual bills.

Several agencies, consisting of Paytm, have tapped capital markets this 12 months in a fund-elevating frenzy at the lower back of report highs withinside the Indian inventory marketplace, which has outperformed Asian friends to this point this 12 months.

In India, 157 agencies consisting of TPG-subsidized Nykaa, Oyo Hotels and Rooms and on-line coverage aggregator Policybazaar have raised $17.22 billion thru IPOs this 12 months as of October 31, as compared to $8.fifty four billion raised through forty nine agencies withinside the identical length remaining 12 months, in line with Refinitiv data.

Paytm's IPO is probable to be the most important withinside the country's company history, breaking a report held through Coal India Ltd, which raised ₹ 15,000 crore extra than a decade earlier.

Incorporated in 2000, One97 Communications released Paytm in 2009, the India's main virtual surroundings for purchasers and traders. It is a 'cell-first' virtual bills platform to allow cashless bills for Indians. It is the biggest bills platform in India primarily based totally at the range of purchasers, traders, transactions and sales as of March 2021, in line with RedSeer.

Paytm is to be had at a charge of Rs 2,three hundred withinside the gray marketplace, a top class of Rs a hundred and fifty or 7 percentage over higher charge band of Rs 2,a hundred and fifty according to proportion, as according to the IPO Watch.

The proportion allotment gets finalised through November 15 after which the price range may be refunded to unsuccessful buyers through November 16. Eligible buyers will acquire stocks of their demat debts through November 17.

The buying and selling in fairness stocks at the BSE and NSE will begin with impact from November 18.