gmv: Paytm says October GMV rose 131% to $11.2 billion

Paytm, which
listed on home bourses final week, mentioned its gross merchandise worth — or funds made to retailers by way of its platform — jumped 131% to $11.2 billion final month from a yr earlier.

The expansion was aided by festive season spending, the corporate mentioned in a submitting with the BSE on Sunday night time. The GMV doesn’t embody peer-to-peer funds.

The variety of its month-to-month transacting customers (MTU) grew greater than 35% in October this yr to 63 million, in contrast with 47 million the identical month final yr. GMV per MTU elevated to $177 from $104.

“Our sturdy working efficiency continued within the month of October 2021, with growing numbers of shoppers and retailers transacting on our ecosystem, growing frequency of transactions and growing adoption of our totally different services and products,” One97 Communications, mum or dad of

, mentioned within the submitting. The corporate mentioned it’s going to announce its September quarter outcomes on November 27.

The Noida-based agency had
made a disappointing debut on the bourses Thursday, when its shares
tanked 27% from the IPO problem value to shut at Rs 1,564.15 on the BSE. Traders and analysts have had their very own scepticism over Paytm’s means to generate income from a number of of its enterprise verticals the place competitors is growing too.

In response to Paytm, its lending and machine enterprise has additionally seen steady adoption in October with a complete base of 1.4 million units final month with retailers, in contrast with 1.3 million on the finish of the September quarter.

“The October 2021 month noticed continued enhance in adoption throughout our totally different monetary companies merchandise. The lending enterprise continued to indicate very sturdy development because of fast scale up of all of our lending merchandise, together with Postpaid, client loans and service provider loans,” Paytm mentioned within the submitting. By its monetary establishment companions, the corporate issued 1.3 million loans in October price $84 million. This is a rise of 472% within the variety of loans and 418% in worth, in contrast with October final yr.

Paytm added that it took a cautious method on mortgage disbursals following the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, however the disbursals “nearly doubled” with over 2.8 million loans within the second quarter of FY22 in contrast with the previous quarter.