In December 2024, the value of transactions through UPI stands at Rs 23.24 lakh crore as compared to December 2016, when it was Rs 707.93 crore and December 2020, when it was Rs 4.16 lakh crore.
NPCI international is in talks with 10 other countries for the UPI and Rupay stack after partnering with five other countries, Asbe added
In an interview with Moneycontrol, Asbe said BHIM will become a formidable app in a couple of years, ruling out any conflict with other UPI apps. He further said that small merchants are not ready for MDR yet.
"The speed of tech is concerning because we are building stacks, and the way AI is going forward, there is associated cyber risk," Asbe said.
"The volumes may remain with UPI but these products like Fastag and BBPS (Bharat Bill Payment System) will service the niche segments, " Dilip Asbe said.
This comes at a time when entrepreneurs in the financial capital of the country are uniting together to boost and promote the tech ecosystem in the city.
NPCI’s most successful product platform remains UPI, which is expected to surpass Mastercard's daily transaction volume of 440 million soon. UPI does around 340 million transactions a day. Visa, the world's largest card network, processes an average of 750 million transactions per day
Through a series of nimble innovations, NPCI has digitised and revolutionised Indian payments space. The high profit margins helped the organisation to keep innovating at a pace that can put even the best of the fintech start-ups to shame.
The new products include credit line on UPI, conversational payment mode ‘Hello UPI’, BillPay Connect, UPI Tap & Pay and UPI Lite X. Nandan Nilekani calls NPCI the crown jewel of India's technology sector.
Asbe said that UPI's next big goal will be to process 100 billion transactions per month. His comments came a few days after UPI crossed the milestone of processing over 10 billion transactions in the month of August.
UPI has 10X growth possible still from the very current base, says Dilip Asbe
Koshy also said that ONDC is working to bring financial products to the network, and this is expected to happen in the next couple of months.
This comes at a time when NPCI is gearing up for enhancing the footprints of UPI in more countries with the Reserve Bank of India.
Asbe said at News18’s Rising India Summit that there are dialogues within the ecosystem with the government and the stakeholders on how to grow UPI to 10X and how to ensure that onboarding of a large number of customers and merchants is smooth with the right investment.
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“I don't think UPI has achieved its potential yet. For a country like India, we should do 10x of what we are doing,” Asbe said.
Ashneer Grover has alleged that there is a serious breach of data of over 150 million UPI users at BharatPe by Bhavik Koladiya.
The NPCI chief also said that the umbrella organisation is attempting to help credit by integrating the RuPay Credit Card on UPI.
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) managing director and chief executive Dilip Asbe replied to a tweet by billionaire Musk, saying the UPI's recurring payments offering already has 7 million users.
Asbe took over as CEO of NPCI from former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) executive Abhaya Prasad Hota in 2018.
Asbe believes that the card ecosystem needs to upgrade and innovate faster to give the same user experience as UPI apps.
With this whole NUE conversation, there is a lot of pressure on the NPCI to kind of continue the innovation journey, says Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of NPCI Dilip Asbe.
The instant refund will be completed using Immediate Payments System (IMPS) transfers, it said adding that the CoD IMPS return facility is currently active for banks having IMPS transaction capability.