Hike forges alliance with Airtel Payments Bank

Hike has partnered with Airtel Payments Bank to power its Wallet. The alliance, a first of its kind, creates great business synergy between the two partners – Hike and Airtel.

Through this partnership, Airtel Payments Bank gets access to over 100 million users on Hike and will begin powering the Hike Wallet product. Hike users will have access to Airtel Payments Bank’s vast product line including merchant and utility payments, KYC infrastructure, which is one of the largest in the country, giving a big boost to the platform in the light of the recent KYC guidelines announced by RBI.

Commenting on this, Pathik Shah, Vice-President, Product, Hike Messenger, said, “We’ve seen tremendous traction on the Wallet over the last few months, most of it being organic. We’re on track for 5-million+ transactions this month with only a simple set of services such as Recharge and P2P. As we scale up the number of services on our platform in the coming months, we expect this to grow even faster. In the light of the new KYC guidelines, we’re also excited to announce a new partnership with Airtel Payments Bank. This is a great move for our users and it will ensure that they have an uninterrupted service when the new guidelines kick in. We’re excited and we look forward to working with Airtel on supporting this effort to bring more Indians online and enable easy transactional services for them.”

A Ganesh, Chief Operating Officer, Airtel Payments Bank, said, “We are delighted to partner with Hike to build a world-class digital payments ecosystem by leveraging our vast reach and digital banking infrastructure. The addition of Hike Wallets to our portfolio will position us as one of the largest digital payments platforms in India.”