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
Kotak Mahindra Bank is a renowned bank that has well-established itself in the country and a pioneer in embracing newer technological implementations in the banking sector. It has thrived in offering surplus services and features to its customers to simplify the overall banking process.
With this, Kotak Mahindra also offers Kotak Securities, a subsidiary under its name that provides traders and investors alike to trade in the Stock Market. As a broker, it provides quite an impressive array of features and services, which does come in handy while trading and investing in the stock market.
Established in 1994 in Mumbai, Kotak Securities comes under Kotak Mahindra Bank and offers services related to investing and trading in the stock market. Financial services are also included. The bank is targeted primarily towards India and has a broad chain of outlets that spans 1209 branches handling well
Charge | Paytm Money | Kotak Securities |
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Demat Account Opening Charges | ₹0 (Free) | ₹0 |
Trading Acc Opening Charges | Rs. 200 (One time Digital KYC) + Rs. 300 Account Opening Charges | ₹750 |
Trading Account AMC | ₹0 (Free) | ₹0 |
Demat Account AMC | Annual Platform Fees of Rs.300 | ₹600 per year |
Charge | Paytm Money | Kotak Securities |
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Plan Name | Basic Plan | Fixed Brokerage Plan |
Equity Delivery | ₹0 | 0.49% |
Equity Intraday | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower | 0.049% (both side) |
Equity Futures | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower | 0.049% (both side) |
Equity Options | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower | ₹300 per lot |
Currency Futures | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower | N/A |
Currency Options | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower | N/A |
Commodity Options | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower | Futures 0.070% |
Mutual Fund | N/A | N/A |
Segment | Paytm Money | Kotak Securities |
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Equity Delivery | Upto 4x | N/A |
Equity Intraday | Upto 20x | N/A |
Equity Future | Upto 3x | N/A |
Equity Options | Upto 5x | N/A |
Currency Future | Upto 2x | N/A |
Currency Options | Upto 3x | N/A |
Commodity Future | Upto 3x | N/A |
Commodity Options | N/A | N/A |