Airtel Payments Bank Officially Launched, Now Available Across 29 States

Now, the bank is officially live across all 29 states, and according to Airtel, there are over 250,000 Airtel retail stores that that will function as banking points around the country.

  

The Airtel Payments Bank - the first payments bank - has officially launched nationally on Thursday, at an event in New Delhi where Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, formally launched the bank. Airtel had earlier (in November) launched a pilot payments bank program in Rajasthan, across 10,000 Airtel retail outlets in the state.