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The Paytm founder has boosted his thin shareholding in the company while providing Alibaba a smooth exit. But he might well be inviting more scrutiny.

The share price of One 97 Communications Ltd (aka Paytm) is back up to where it was exactly a year ago, despite improving fundamentals and multiple positive reratings by analysts. It has been a rather eventful year for the stock, the company and its main investors, with ongoing exits by large investors that have proven to be an overhang on the share price. Here’s a short chronology of events as they transpired:

SoftBank has regularly reduced its substantial stake in Paytm since November 2022, when the one-year lock-in period for the stock’s pre-IPO investors ended, mostly at a loss. Alibaba …