Flipkart Payments to invest over Rs 200 crore in digital payment app PhonePe

PhonePe, the digital payments arm of e-commerce giant Flipkart, has raised over Rs 254 crore from Singapore-based Flipkart Payments, according to documents filed with the Corporate Affairs Ministry.[caption id="attachment_4112575" align="alignleft" width="380"] PhonePe. PhonePe.[/caption]The resolution to this effect was passed at the meeting of board of directors of PhonePe on 30 August, 2017, it added.Previously, PhonePe had received Rs 83.68 crore in October, 2016 through allocation of Rs 41.84 lakh shares at a premium of Rs 190 per share.Formerly known as FX Mart Private Ltd, PhonePe competes with the likes of Amazon Pay, Paytm and Mobikwik.The new round of funding will help PhonePe strengthen its position in the market at a time when digital transactions are becoming a popular mode of payment.PhonePe had stated that it drove 45 percent of all UPI transactions in August (at Rs 7.47 million) this year, and had seen 66 per cent growth in volume of transactions over the previous month.The funding in PhonePe comes after Flipkart had received $2.5 billion from investors like SoftBank early in the year. Flipkart had also raised USD 1.4 billion from Microsoft, Tencent and eBay Inc in April this year.