{"id":1028619,"date":"2026-08-13T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028619"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:14:41","slug":"paytm-gets-target-price-hikes-from-bofa-jm-financial-as-upi-monetisation-expected-to-boost-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/13\/paytm-gets-target-price-hikes-from-bofa-jm-financial-as-upi-monetisation-expected-to-boost-earnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Paytm gets target price hikes from BofA, JM Financial as UPI monetisation expected to boost earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 13 (ANI): Global brokerages Bank of America Securities and JM Financial have raised their price targets on Paytm, saying the potential monetisation of UPI merchant payments through the application of a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) could boost revenues and open up a new earnings stream for the fintech company, while its underlying business momentum remains strong. <\/p>\n<p>BofA Global Research raised its price objective on Paytm to \u20b91,775 from \u20b91,560 and reiterated its Buy rating, describing the company as a &#8220;key beneficiary&#8221; from a potential MDR on select UPI transactions. JM Financial also maintained its Buy rating and increased its target price to \u20b91,950 from \u20b91,500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 13 (ANI): Global brokerages Bank of America Securities and JM Financial have raised their price targets on Paytm, saying the potential monetisation of UPI merchant payments through the application of a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) could boost revenues and open up a new earnings stream for the fintech company, while its underlying business momentum remains strong. BofA Global Research raised its price objective on Paytm to \u20b91,775 from \u20b91,560 and reiterated its Buy rating, describing the company as a &#8220;key beneficiary&#8221; from a potential MDR on select UPI transactions. JM Financial also maintained its Buy rating [&hellip;]<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028619","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=1028619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028641,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028619\/revisions\/1028641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}