May 28 (Reuters) - India's 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 India's

government-backed public e-commerce platform, Open Network for

Digital Commerce (ONDC), the report said, citing people familiar

with the matter.