One 97 Communications, the father or mother entity of Paytm, has authorized a contemporary grant of worker inventory choices (ESOP) underneath its current ESOP framework.

In a inventory alternate submitting, the corporate mentioned its Nomination and Remuneration Committee authorized the grant of 1,23,908 inventory choices to eligible workers underneath the One 97 Workers Inventory Possibility Scheme 2019.

The approval was granted on January 3, 2026, by way of circulation. Every inventory possibility is convertible into one absolutely paid-up fairness share of face worth Rs 1, with an train value of Rs 9 per possibility.

Based mostly on Paytm’s Friday closing share price of round Rs 1,340.4, the newly granted ESOPs carry an approximate notional worth of Rs 16.7 crore.

The corporate additionally disclosed that 4,25,702 inventory choices lapsed in the course of the interval. There was no vesting, train, cancellation, or variation of phrases of choices reported as a part of this disclosure.

The fairness shares allotted pursuant to the train of those choices is not going to be topic to any lock-in. The ESOP scheme is compliant with the SEBI (Share Based mostly Worker Advantages and Sweat Fairness) Laws, 2021, and contains provisions protecting company actions in addition to remedy of choices in occasions equivalent to resignation, retirement, termination, loss of life, or everlasting incapacity.

Individually, One 97 Communications highlighted a key regulatory milestone for its funds enterprise. Paytm Funds Companies Restricted, its wholly owned subsidiary, has acquired authorisation from the RBI to function as a cost aggregator for bodily or offline funds and cross-border transactions.

With this approval, the subsidiary now holds cost aggregator authorisations throughout on-line, offline, and cross-border segments, enabling it to supply cost aggregation providers throughout a wider set of service provider use instances.

On the monetary entrance, One 97 Communications reported income from operations of Rs 2,061 crore within the second quarter of FY26, up from Rs 1,659 crore within the corresponding interval final 12 months.

Web revenue for the quarter declined sharply to Rs 21 crore from Rs 930 crore in Q2 FY25, largely because of the absence of a one-time acquire within the base quarter and an impairment loss recorded within the newest interval.