RBI is probably the most advanced regulator, primarily because we have found that right balance of data sovereignty, nationalist pride, still allowing international players to co-exist, he adds
Despite the AI buzz, India’s fintech and banking players are treading cautiously, experimenting, not overhauling, as they balance innovation with regulation in one of the world’s most tightly governed financial sectors.
Over one million Indian tourists had visited Malaysia in 2024, spending over Rs 11,000 crore, underscoring the potential for UPI to simplify payments, reduce foreign exchange cost and improve merchant acceptance.
Industry body warns of duopoly as UPI processing reaches 19.6 billion transactions in September
The feature allows policyholders to make premium payments directly through their preferred mobile banking app, without having to log in separately using internet banking credentials
Seamless payments, smarter budgeting, and stress-free monthly bills.
In the end, NPCI blinked. Fierce one-upmanship among UPI apps forced a rollback, restoring uneasy peace in India’s payments ecosystem
NPCI’s move to spin off BHIM has yielded results, with the app quadrupling its transactions to 100 million within a year
The three-day event in Mumbai saw AI dominate conversations across panels and product launches, while fintech founders, regulators, and banks signalled a more measured phase of collaboration after last year’s wave of policy changes.
The initiative, currently in the pilot stage, will enable users to discover products and services, compare prices, and make payments through UPI without leaving the ChatGPT interface.
RBI has been nudging all financial institutions to follow different second-factor authentication instead of PIN and OTPs, such as behavioural risk patterns and biometrics, over other means as of now.
For small ticket unsecured loans, NBFCs tend to be more eager and earnest than banks and hence their participation is key for the product’s take off
Launched less than a year ago, Supermoney has quickly become India’s fifth-largest UPI app, handling about 257 million transactions a month, according to data from the National Payments Corporation of India.
To be sure, IPO-bound PhonePe still dominates the UPI payments landscape, with a little over 45 percent market share, so these figures do not shift the competitive landscape materially
The online RMG ban took effect on August 22, less than 96 hours after cabinet clearance, in what may be one of the swiftest policy moves in recent parliamentary history
India’s large informal sector, a low female work participation and the new users’ propensity to spend less could limit UPI’s future growth, say experts
UPI had processed close to 15 billion transactions in August 2024, with the platform recording a 33 percent growth year-on-year.
IMPS is often used by customers for high-value transactions, with the average value of transactions being higher than Rs 13,000 in July this year, compared to UPI's Rs 1,300
A 'collect request' or 'pull transaction' allows a user to request money from another user through UPI. While such person-to-person transactions are being discontinued, merchants will be allowed collect requests
In August 2023, UPI was registering around 350 million transactions a day. During August last year, UPI was registering around 500 million transactions
As India’s digital payments soar to new heights, the journey to a cashless economy faces critical tests in security, inclusion, and regulation.
BASE will let micro-ATMs instantly verify Aadhaar-bank linking, making DBT and subsidy tracking simpler
Maharashtra accounted for around 13% of UPI transactions followed by Karnataka at around 7.7%.
From Rs 10,000 crore in May 2024, the value of credit card bill payments crossed Rs 80,000 crore this May
NPCI, which is registered as a not-for-profit organisation, mentions net profit as surplus in its FY 24 annual financial statement