{"id":949682,"date":"2025-07-25T08:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T03:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=949682"},"modified":"2025-07-25T09:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T03:32:58","slug":"vijay-shekhar-sharmas-resilience-fuels-the-rise-of-indias-merchant-payments-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/25\/vijay-shekhar-sharmas-resilience-fuels-the-rise-of-indias-merchant-payments-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Vijay Shekhar Sharma\u2019s resilience fuels the rise of India\u2019s merchant payments champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paytm (One 97 Communications Limited), India\u2019s full-stack merchant payments leader serving micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and enterprises, has delivered a strong Q1 FY26 earnings result with a Profit After Tax (PAT) of \u20b9123 Cr, marking a significant milestone as the company achieved full profitability across all key financial metrics. This performance underlines the long-term vision of founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma, who has built Paytm into India\u2019s most trusted payment app by focusing on merchants and a technology-led payments infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paytm (One 97 Communications Limited), India\u2019s full-stack merchant payments leader serving micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and enterprises, has delivered a strong Q1 FY26 earnings result with a Profit After Tax (PAT) of \u20b9123 Cr, marking a significant milestone as the company achieved full profitability across all key financial metrics. This performance underlines the long-term vision of founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma, who has built Paytm into India\u2019s most trusted payment app by focusing on merchants and a technology-led payments infrastructure.<\/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-949682","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\/949682","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=949682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}