-The Hindu Petition says the entity did not figure in the list of ‘Payment System Operators’ authorised by the RBI The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Reserve Bank of India how could Google’s mobile payment app, Google Pay, operate in India as a payment transaction system without the requisite authorisation. A Bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice A.J. Bhambhani issued notice to the RBI and Google India on a...
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BHIM UPI, RuPay swipe Mastercard, Visa -Shishir Sinha
-The Hindu Business Line Home-grown payment systems corner over 60% of digital transactions New Delhi: India’s own Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) and RuPay cards have garnered over 60 per cent market share of the digital transactions business, pushing back global giants such as Mastercard and Visa. BHIM is a UPI-based payment interface that allows real-time fund transfer using a single identity, typically a mobile number or a name. Unified Payments Interface (UPI)...
More »Govt drops incentives given for UPI transactions -Mayur Shetty
-The Times of India MUMBAI: The government has prematurely withdrawn a scheme under which shopkeepers would get an incentive of up to Rs 1,000 for accepting payments using the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). Another one providing customers cashbacks of up to Rs 500 has also been withdrawn and replaced with a scheme that provides rewards of up to Rs 150 but only for Bhim app users. The move to withdraw the incentives...
More »One year after demonetisation, cash is still king -Roshan Kishore
-Livemint.com Cash scarcity led to a spike in digital payments post demonetisation, but the trend reversed as remonetisation picked up pace New Delhi: Soon after demonetisation was announced on 8 November last year, it was projected as part of a broader push towards a cashless economy. Several ministers and government officials claimed that this would nudge Indians to rely on non-cash or digital payments. In the weeks and months following demonetisation, digital payments...
More »Transactions on Unified Payment Interface jump 85%, cross 3-crore mark in September -AJ Vinayak
-The Hindu Business Line Mangaluru: The number of transactions on UPI (Unified Payment Interface) platform crossed 3 crore in September. UPI, which is a mobile-only digital payment mechanism from National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI), went live with 21 banks on August 25, 2016. The latest figures by NPCI indicate a substantial increase of around 85 per cent in the number of transactions on this platform September. The number of transactions on UPI...
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