{"id":954686,"date":"2025-08-13T10:08:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T04:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954686"},"modified":"2025-08-13T12:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:44:22","slug":"rbi-clears-paytm-payments-services-to-operate-as-online-payment-aggregator-lifts-ban-on-new-merchant-onboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/13\/rbi-clears-paytm-payments-services-to-operate-as-online-payment-aggregator-lifts-ban-on-new-merchant-onboarding\/","title":{"rendered":"RBI clears Paytm Payments Services to operate as online payment aggregator; lifts ban on new merchant onboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One 97 Communications said in a stock exchange filing on Tuesday that its wholly-owned subsidiary Paytm Payments Services Limited (PPSL), has received the RBI\u2019s in-principle approval to operate as an online payment aggregator. <\/p>\n<p>According to PTI, the RBI\u2019s nod also lifts the restriction imposed in November 2022, that barred PPSL from onboarding new merchants. \u201cWe would like to inform you that RBI has granted \u2018in-principle\u2019 authorisation to PPSL, vide its letter dated August 12, 2025, to operate as an Online Payment Aggregator under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007,\u201d the company stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One 97 Communications said in a stock exchange filing on Tuesday that its wholly-owned subsidiary Paytm Payments Services Limited (PPSL), has received the RBI\u2019s in-principle approval to operate as an online payment aggregator. According to PTI, the RBI\u2019s nod also lifts the restriction imposed in November 2022, that barred PPSL from onboarding new merchants. \u201cWe would like to inform you that RBI has granted \u2018in-principle\u2019 authorisation to PPSL, vide its letter dated August 12, 2025, to operate as an Online Payment Aggregator under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007,\u201d the company stated.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954686","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=954686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}