A successful discount broker in India, 5 paisa provides different trading and investing services across various segments. Its parent company is IIFL that has built a great name in the retail broking industry.
5paisa Capital Ltd. is a new age company that believes in making the entire process of getting started with trading as simple as possible, offering account opening in three simple steps. One of the leading stockbrokers in India, 5paisa Capital Ltd is publicly-traded, and managed by IIFL founders. This provides the company with valuable experience in the financial markets coupled with its expertise in simplifying the trading experience has enabled it to offer best-in-class services at an extremely low cost.
Based out of Mumbai, 5paisa.com commenced operations in March 2016 and since then has become 2nd largest discount stock broker in India (As on Dec 2018). It is listed on both BSE as well as NSE.
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The best part about Paytm Money is in the fact that it carries the brand name Paytm. Now while that provides a huge advantage from a branding perspective, whether it is enough from a functional perspective, we’ll see.
Paytm Money is a mutual fund trading app, facilitating payments through net banking, UPI, OTM. However, it launched its discount broking wing sometime back and is planning to expand its user base towards the stock investors and traders. Paytm Money’s target market happens to be one of the largest population demographics, i.e the young and middle aged. With Paytm Money, the company joints it’s easy to use interface with quality and service standards set by Paytm.
All this while it ventures into the mutual fund app space and further diversifying into the stock broking services in India. Paytm is an Indian company, funded by Alibaba and backed by Ratan Tata
Charge | 5paisa | Paytm Money |
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Demat Account Opening Charges | ₹0 (Free) | ₹0 (Free) |
Trading Acc Opening Charges | ₹650 | Rs. 200 (One time Digital KYC) + Rs. 300 Account Opening Charges |
Trading Account AMC | ₹0 (Free) | ₹0 (Free) |
Demat Account AMC | ₹540 yearly (charged as ₹45 per traded month) | Annual Platform Fees of Rs.300 |
Charge | 5paisa | Paytm Money |
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Plan Name | Optimum Plan | Basic Plan |
Equity Delivery | ₹20 per trade | ₹0 |
Equity Intraday | ₹20 per trade | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower |
Equity Futures | ₹20 per trade | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower |
Equity Options | ₹20 per trade | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower |
Currency Futures | ₹20 per trade | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower |
Currency Options | ₹20 per trade | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower |
Commodity Options | ₹20 per trade | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower |
Mutual Fund | N/A | N/A |
Segment | 5paisa | Paytm Money |
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Equity Delivery | Upto 4x | Upto 4x |
Equity Intraday | Upto 20x | Upto 20x |
Equity Future | Intra-day: 3.5x | Carry forward: 1x (no margin) | Upto 3x |
Equity Options | Intra-day: 1x | Carry forward: 1x | Upto 5x |
Currency Future | Intra-day: 1 time | Carry forward: 1x | Upto 2x |
Currency Options | Intra-day: 1x | Carry forward: 1x | Upto 3x |
Commodity Future | N/A | Upto 3x |
Commodity Options | N/A | N/A |