Paytm Seeks To Raise $268 Million In Pre-IPO Share Sale: Report

The company won shareholders' approval at the EGM to raise capital and to sell up to Rs 12,000 crore in new stock, the source added.

Digital payments firm Paytm is planning to raise $268 million in a funding round as it prepares for an initial public offering later this year, a source directly aware of the matter said on Monday. Paytm will also seek to issue Rs 8,300 crore worth of new shares and its backers Alibaba and SoftBank will have the option to sell another Rs 8,300 crore in stock, said the source, who declined to be named as the discussions are not public. Paytm's parent, One97 Communications Ltd, will file a draft prospectus shortly after its extraordinary general meeting on Monday for a domestic IPO that seeks to raise $2.3 billion, sources previously told Reuters. That would make Paytm's IPO the country's third-biggest in dollar terms after state-run miner Coal India in 2010 and Reliance Power in 2008.