{"id":994478,"date":"2026-02-25T09:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994478"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:16:56","slug":"bharti-airtel-shares-drop-over-3-after-company-plans-%e2%82%b920000-crore-nbfc-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/bharti-airtel-shares-drop-over-3-after-company-plans-%e2%82%b920000-crore-nbfc-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel shares drop over 3% after company plans \u20b920,000 crore NBFC investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shares of Bharti Airtel dropped 3% after the telecom giant\u2019s announcement of plans to significantly expand its footprint in the financial services sector, with an investment of \u20b920,000 crore. <\/p>\n<p>The company announced that it will invest \u20b920,000 crore over the next few years into its wholly owned non-banking financial company (NBFC) subsidiary, Airtel Money Limited, with the aim of building a large-scale digital lending platform and widening access to formal credit across India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shares of Bharti Airtel dropped 3% after the telecom giant\u2019s announcement of plans to significantly expand its footprint in the financial services sector, with an investment of \u20b920,000 crore. The company announced that it will invest \u20b920,000 crore over the next few years into its wholly owned non-banking financial company (NBFC) subsidiary, Airtel Money Limited, with the aim of building a large-scale digital lending platform and widening access to formal credit across India.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994478","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=994478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}