Adani Group has been considering an application for a licence to operate on the country's public digital payments network and is in talks with banks to finalise plans for a co-branded credit card, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

Billionaire Gautam Adani's ports-to-power conglomerate is also in talks to offer online shopping through government-backed public e-commerce platform, Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.

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