{"id":972241,"date":"2025-11-06T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972241"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:11:08","slug":"paytm-rides-out-collateral-hit-from-gaming-ban-bets-on-ai-for-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/06\/paytm-rides-out-collateral-hit-from-gaming-ban-bets-on-ai-for-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Paytm rides out collateral hit from gaming ban, bets on AI for growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A government crackdown on real-money gaming dented Paytm\u2019s profit last quarter, but the fintech major\u2019s broader turnaround stayed on track. The company took a one-time \u20b9190 crore impairment on a loan to its gaming joint venture, First Games Technology Pvt. Ltd, but the underlying profitability and growth momentum held firm.<\/p>\n<p>At the company&#8217;s September quarter earnings call on Wednesday, founder and chief executive officer Vijay Shekhar Sharma said: \u201cOur future growth and bottom-line expansion will come from India\u2019s financial services business, replication of our product technology globally, and our AI stack\u2014from infrastructure to use cases.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A government crackdown on real-money gaming dented Paytm\u2019s profit last quarter, but the fintech major\u2019s broader turnaround stayed on track. The company took a one-time \u20b9190 crore impairment on a loan to its gaming joint venture, First Games Technology Pvt. Ltd, but the underlying profitability and growth momentum held firm. At the company&#8217;s September quarter earnings call on Wednesday, founder and chief executive officer Vijay Shekhar Sharma said: \u201cOur future growth and bottom-line expansion will come from India\u2019s financial services business, replication of our product technology globally, and our AI stack\u2014from infrastructure to use cases.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972241","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}