Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway takes stake in Paytm
Paytm integrates BHIM
The investment is a huge endorsement for Paytm that has grown to become India's leading digital payments platform in just eight years of its operation.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc has picked up a $356 million stake in the parent of digital payments firm Paytm, a source said, its first investment in an Indian startup as it forays into the financial payments sector.
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The conglomerate run by billionaire Warren Buffett confirmed in an email that Berkshire had invested in Vijay Shekhar Sharma's One97 Communications Ltd. Buffett was not involved in the transaction, his assistant Debbie Bosanek said in the email, without giving more details.
The investment is a huge endorsement for Paytm that has grown to become India's leading digital payments platform in just eight years of its operation.
For Berkshire, this marks a rare shift in its strategy. Buffet has traditionally invested in companies from sectors such as consumer, energy and insurance.
The conglomerate is under pressure to find investments and whittle down a $108.6 billion stockpile of cash. In May, Buffett had indicated an interest in the financial payments industry at an annual shareholders meeting, saying the sector was a huge deal around the world and that many companies were working to reinvent the space.
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One of Buffett's key investment deputies, Todd Combs, who is seen as a potential chief investment officer at Berkshire, is leading the Paytm deal, reports said.
It has been a busy year for Combs, who has also been heading Berkshire's efforts to start a healthcare joint venture with Amazon.com Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Paytm, founded by Vijay Shekhar Sharma in 2010, counts China's Alibaba Group and its financial services arm Ant Financial Services Group among its investors.
Alibaba and Ant Financial, which runs China's top payment system Alipay, jointly own about 40 per cent of Paytm's parent after an investment in September 2015, Reuters reported.
Japan's SoftBank also became a shareholder in May 2017, injecting $1.4 billion in Paytm's parent company for a 14.2 per cent stake and some existing shares. That investment would value Paytm at about $7 billion.
One97 Communications and SoftBank did not respond to requests seeking comment. A spokeswoman for Alibaba referred Reuters requests to Paytm.