Who owns Payme?
Payme is owned by TBC Bank Group (Georgia, LSE: TBCG).[1]
TBC Bank Group owns 79.69% of Payme rather than all of it.
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: TBC Bank Group PLC - Annual Report and Accounts 2025 (ESEF report). Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- TBC Bank Group PLC (79.69% stake) reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇬🇪 Georgia, Tbilisi
- Origin
- 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan, Tashkent
- Category
- Internet & digital › Digital services › Payments
- Parent ticker
- LSE: TBCG
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Payme
Payme is the payments app TBC Bank Group calls its payments market leader in Uzbekistan, and the service it cross-sells its Salom card holders into. Since May 2025 it has sat with TBC Bank Uzbekistan under TBC Digital, in which outside shareholders hold 20.31%. Its premium subscription, Payme Plus, launched in 2025 and had 600,000 monthly subscribers by the end of the year.
Ownership timeline of Payme
- Current owner TBC Bank Group (79.69%) [1] reported Held through TBC Digital JSC, 79.69% owned by TBC Bank Group since a reorganisation on 31 May 2025.
Where Payme sits in TBC Bank Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
- Myauto
- Myhome
- Payme (79.69%)
- TBC Bank (99.88%)
- TBC Bank Uzbekistan (79.69%)
- TBC Capital
- TBC Insurance
Open the full TBC Bank Group ownership tree →
See the full TBC Bank Group brand portfolio (7) →
Other brands owned by TBC Bank Group
TBC Bank Group controls 7 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in payments, and who owns them
The 38 brands in payments on Brandtree belong to 21 owners. The largest is PayPal, with 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| GoPay | GoTo | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Kaspi Alaqan | Kaspi.kz | 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan |
| Braintree | PayPal | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Afterpay | Block | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Rakuten Card | Rakuten | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| AzamPay | Bakhresa | 🇹🇿 Tanzania |
| GrabPay | Grab | 🇸🇬 Singapore |
| Mercado Crédito | MercadoLibre | 🇺🇾 Uruguay |
About the owner: TBC Bank Group
TBC Bank Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tbilisi, Georgia, founded in 2016. Brandtree records 7 brands under its control, and it is listed as LSE: TBCG.
TBC Bank Group is the London-listed parent of TBC Bank, one of Georgia's leading banks, and of a fast-growing digital bank and payments business in Uzbekistan. The PLC was set up in a 2016 restructuring and listed on the London Stock Exchange on 10 August 2016, when JSC TBC Bank's shareholders swapped their shares for its own. Besides banking it owns Georgia's leading insurer, TBC Insurance, a brokerage, a leasing company and TNET, which runs Georgia's leading group of classifieds and lifestyle sites.
TBC Bank Group: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇿 Payme and other Uzbek brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 12 brands that began in Uzbekistan. 3 of them (25%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Payme among them.
- Uzum Avto — Uzum 🇺🇿
- Artel — Artel 🇺🇿
- Ipoteka Bank — OTP Bank 🇭🇺
- Qanot Sharq — Qanot Sharq 🇺🇿
- Uzbekistan Airways — Uzbekistan Airways 🇺🇿
- Uzum Bank — Uzum 🇺🇿
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Payme?
The parent company of Payme is TBC Bank Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in Georgia.
Is Payme Uzbek or Georgian?
Payme originated in Uzbekistan, but it is owned today by TBC Bank Group, which is headquartered in Georgia. So Payme is an Uzbek-origin brand under Georgian ownership.
Is Payme still owned by TBC Bank Group?
Yes. As of 27 October 2026, Payme is still owned by TBC Bank Group (79.69% stake). The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] TBC Bank Group PLC - Annual Report and Accounts 2025 (ESEF report) — TBC Bank Group PLC, Annual report; retrieved 27 October 2026.
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