PPIs are instruments that facilitate the purchase of goods and services, conduct of financial services, enable remittance facilities, etc., against the value stored in them
In its Payments Vision Document released last week, the RBI said keeping in view the emerging geo-political risks, options would be explored to ring-fence domestic payment systems
It is also in talks with insurance behemoth Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) to start the onboarding process
Opinion is divided over whether or not the circular will impact the popular 'Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL)' schemes offered by many fintechs
Issuers given more time for OTP-based activation, ensuring credit limit is not breached without cardholder's consent
This circular by the RBI is likely to impact those fintech players who offer credit lines to customers via their wallets in association with non-banking finance players.
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Titled "Payments Vision 2025", this document aims to provide every user safe and affordable e-payment options
The rupee has been depreciating sharply ever since tensions broke out between Russia and Ukraine in February
A hike in retail fixed-deposit rates has been much smaller than the lending rate hike. Bulk deposit rates have, however, spiked
Health of the sector is encouraging: Deputy guv
The central bank had barred the US-based payment gateway from onboarding new customers until it complies with Storage of Payment System Data norms
"The asset quality of banks has improved and the gross NPAs and net NPAs of the banks have improved from the pre-pandemic levels," Rao said
Moves follow RBI's 90-bp repo rate increase in a little over a month
Interest rates on retail term deposits (below Rs 2 crore) of 211 days to less than one-year tenor have been increased by 20 bps to 4.6 per cent. It was 4.4 per cent earlier
The hike in deposit rates follows the rate action by Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee in the June monetary policy
Currently, India has one domestic reinsurance company, the state-owned General Insurance Corporation (GIC Re)
Also suggests that regulatory instructions should contain a statement of objective underlying the rationale for their issuance, supplemented with FAQs/guidance notes and illustrations
'Improving bounce-rate trajectory suggests slippages, credit cost will descend in FY23'
Smaller merchants can be subsidised to make it work