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MSME sector | RBI | Online payments

Subhomoy Bhattacharjee  |  New Delhi 

Valuations of payment gateways for the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) are shooting up. These gateways offer bundled services to the MSMEs which include not just receiving payments but also inventory management to help with keeping tax records.

As customers even from mid income groups switch to digital payments for dealing with small shops to roadside vegetable traders, the business for the gateways has boomed. This could be surprising as the package of measures to help the MSMEs last year have made little headway. The “Fund of Funds” has not got even one ...

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First Published: Wed, April 28 2021. 16:11 IST
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