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Tuesday, June 08 2021 - 00:00
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India's largest bank SBI invests in leading digital payments firm Cashfree
BANGALORE , India, June 7, 2021 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

    Cashfree [https://www.cashfree.com/], India's leading digital payments and 
banking technology company, today announced that India's largest lender, State 
Bank of India (SBI) [https://bank.sbi/] has made an investment in the 
organisation. The move reinforces their shared vision of promoting digital 
modes of payments.

    A leader in payments innovation, Cashfree provides a full-stack payments 
solutions platform enabling over 100,000 growing businesses in India and across 
the globe to accept and disburse payment online through a single integration.

    Currently ranked among the leading payment service providers in India, 
Cashfree processes transactions worth USD 20 billion annually. Apart from 
India, Cashfree's products are used in eight other countries including the USA, 
Canada and the UAE.

    "We are excited about our partnership with the country's trusted and 
leading lender SBI. The investment from India's largest bank shows its trust in 
Cashfree's innovation and the way we are rapidly scaling up the payments 
business. This also underscores Cashfree's role towards building a payments 
ecosystem that enables the fastest and easiest way to collect payments and make 
payouts for growing businesses. As we work towards digitising the economy, we 
remain committed to bringing uniformity, transparency and a reduced turnaround 
time to digital transactions among Indian businesses. The investment fits 
perfectly with our growth strategy as we continue to focus on customer 
experience and product innovation," says Akash Sinha, Co-Founder & CEO, 
Cashfree.

    Incubated by payments pioneer PayPal, Cashfree is backed by Apis Partners, 
Smilegate and Y Combinator. Cashfree is used by businesses like Zomato, Cred, 
Nykaa, Delhivery, Acko, Shell among others for various business payment needs 
like ecommerce payment collection, vendor payments, marketplace settlements etc.

    About Cashfree:

    Cashfree is a leading payments and API banking solutions company. It 
provides full-stack payments solutions enabling businesses in India to collect 
payments and make payouts via all available methods with a simple integration. 
Cashfree's offerings include an advanced and easy way to integrate payment 
gateway, a split payment solution for marketplaces, bank account verification 
API and Auto Collect -- a virtual account solution to match inbound payments to 
customers. Founded by IIIT Hyderabad alumnus Akash Sinha and IIT Kharagpur 
graduate Reeju Datta, www.cashfree.com [http://www.cashfree.com/] is among the 
leading payment service providers in India processing transactions worth USD 20 
Billion annually. It has leveraged technology to lead payment disbursals in 
India with more than 50% market share among payment processors. Cashfree 
enables more than 1,00,000 businesses with payment collections, vendor payouts, 
wage payouts, bulk refunds, expense reimbursements, loyalty and rewards. Apart 
from India, Cashfree's products are used in eight other countries including 
USA, Canada and
UAE. Cashfree is backed by Silicon Valley investor Y Combinator, Apis Partners, 
State Bank of India (SBI) and was incubated by PayPal.

    Photo: 
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    Logo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1387178/Cashfree_Logo.jpg

Source: Cashfree Payments Pvt Ltd 





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