With this, Flipkart has also become India’s first ecommerce company to fetch an NBFC licence. Notably, the Walmart-backed company applied for the NBFC licence in 2022, the report added.

Flipkart, in which U.S. retail behemoth Walmart holds a more than 80% stake, applied for the licence in 2022, according to the central bank’s approval letter.

Flipkart applied for the license in 2022, as per the report, which added that the ecommerce company may start the lending operations in a few months.