{"id":1020097,"date":"2026-07-11T08:07:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020097"},"modified":"2026-07-11T08:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:02:54","slug":"softbank-fintech-firm-paypay-in-talks-to-invest-in-retail-giant-seven-i-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/11\/softbank-fintech-firm-paypay-in-talks-to-invest-in-retail-giant-seven-i-report\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank, fintech firm PayPay in talks to invest in retail giant Seven &amp; i: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Corp and mobile payments operator PayPay are \u200bin talks to invest \u200bin retail giant Seven &amp; i Holdings, Bloomberg News \u200breported on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The investment will likely total several hundred billion yen and Sumitomo Mitsui Card, a unit of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, may also take a \u200cstake, Bloomberg \u2060said. <\/p>\n<p>Reuters could \u2060not immediately verify the report. SoftBank, Seven &amp; i, PayPay and SMFG declined \u200bto comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Corp and mobile payments operator PayPay are \u200bin talks to invest \u200bin retail giant Seven &amp; i Holdings, Bloomberg News \u200breported on Friday. The investment will likely total several hundred billion yen and Sumitomo Mitsui Card, a unit of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, may also take a \u200cstake, Bloomberg \u2060said. Reuters could \u2060not immediately verify the report. SoftBank, Seven &amp; i, PayPay and SMFG declined \u200bto comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020108,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020097\/revisions\/1020108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}