Digital payments major Paytm's $2.5b IPO mints new millionaires in India

Digital payments major Paytm's $2.5b IPO mints new millionaires in India

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Indian electronics engineer Siddharth Pandey will become a millionaire after the country’s biggest ever public issue, but he says he had to overcome his father’s opposition to join fintech firm Paytm when it was a fledgling start-up nine years ago.