New entrant into the market WhatsApp Pay had done 300,000 transactions in November, worth Rs 13.87 crore
Launched in 2016, UPI crossed 1 bn transactions for the first time in Oct 2019. While it took UPI three years to reach a billion transactions in a month, the next billion came in just a year
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More than 2.07 billion UPI transactions were processed in October, according to NPCI, with Walmart's PhonePe accounting for just over 40% of those transactions
WhatsApp is working on the integration of its payment option with Jio Mart's e-commerce platform.
Industry insiders suggest that this is aimed at bringing a balance in the UPI ecosystem, which is dominated by a few large players
Google Pay, Walmart's PhonePe and Paytm are among the TPAP players in the fast-growing UPI ecosystem, amid the sustained push for boosting digital payments in the country
NPCI allowed WhatsApp to start its payments service in the country in a "graded" manner, starting with a maximum registered user base of 20 million in UPI
Currently, third party applications such as PhonePe, Google Pay, Paytm, and Amazon Pay, dominate the UPI ecosystem, controlling a majority of the transactions
The decision came after the NPCI also issued a statement saying that it had decided to impose a 30% cap on the share of UPI transactions that a single payment application can process
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Real-time payments doubled this year and transaction value increased by 80 per cent, says FIS Global.
The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions stood at Rs 3.29 lakh crore in September with number of transactions at 1.8 billion, NPCI data showed
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"This is to clarify that press reports on the basis of the affidavit filed by Google before the Delhi High Court, do not represent the complete facts," a Google Pay spokesperson said on Friday
The high court on Thursday listed the matter for hearing on November 10 as the Centre and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have not filed their responses yet