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Paytm secures merchant support, guarantees uninterrupted services

Fintech firm One97 Communications, which owns the Paytm brand, has received support from merchants, and it assured them of continuity of services without any disruption, the company said in a blog on Sunday. The blog post came amid the recent crisis around Paytm Payments Bank Limited (PPBL), an associate company of Paytm, which has been barred by the RBI from accepting deposits or top-ups in customer accounts, wallets, FASTags and other instruments after February 29. Withdrawal or utilisation of balances by its customers from their accounts, including savings bank accounts, current accounts, prepaid instruments, FASTags, and National Common Mobility Cards, are to be permitted without any restrictions up to their available balance. "We assure our users and merchant partners that the Paytm app and services continue to operate at full capacity. In instances, where our associate Paytm Payments Bank acts as a back-end bank, we can seamlessly transition these services to other partner ...

'Virtual currency, e-payments, dark web attracts terrorist organisations'

According to a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) report, virtual currencies such as Bitcoin have increasingly been used in various illegal and criminal activities and terror financing

Snapmint Appoints SAAS Veteran Amitt Sharma as Chief Customer Officer ( CCO ), Setting the Stage for 3000 Merchant Partners by 2024

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Shadow of KYC-led money laundering falls over Paytm Payments Bank

Payments bank says it has upheld compliance with supervisory instructions

PayPal to cut around 2,500 jobs as company grapples with competition

PayPal, which employed around 29,900 workers at the end of 2022, announced a similar round of cuts last January. The latest move will affect about 2,500 workers

Zomato Payments gets RBI approval to operate as payment aggregator

January 24 2024 onwards, ZPPL has the authorisation to act as a payment aggregator and issuer of prepaid payment instrument

Sequoia-backed MobiKwik refiles DRHP with Sebi for Rs 700 crore IPO

MobiKwik will consider a pre-IPO placement of Rs 140 crore and if this pre-placement is completed, the fresh issue size will be reduced

RBI introduces card tokenisation facility at bank level for convenience

The RBI on Wednesday introduced a Card-on-File (CoF) token facility at the level of banks and other institutions to provide convenience for cardholders to get tokens created and linked to their existing accounts with various e-commerce applications. At present, a CoF token can only be created through the merchant's application or webpage. For a CoF, a token is a 16-digit number unique for a combination of card, token requestor and merchant. Through tokenisation, the actual card details are replaced with token credentials that can be used only with the intended merchant. "It has been decided to enable Card-on-File Tokenisation (CoFT) directly through card-issuing banks/institutions also. This will provide cardholders with an additional choice to tokenise their cards for multiple merchant sites through a single process," the RBI said in a circular. Generation of CoF tokens for a card, through the card issuer, can be enabled through mobile banking and internet banking channels. In ..

UPI transactions up 118% in semi-urban, rural retail stores in 2023: Study

UPI is a driving force in the overall growth of digital payments in India, says government separately

Paytm's billionaire founder-CEO bets on young wealth to hit profit sooner

Billionaire founder-CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma is overhauling its suite of money management products to better tap growing wealth among younger users, who're warmer to the idea of investing online

RBI raises limit of e-Mandates for recurring online transactions to 1 lakh

The move is believed to further encourage transactions through the digital payment channels in the country

RBI hikes UPI limit for hospital, educational payments: What does it mean?

RBI MPC: In another key announcement related to digital payments, Governor Shaktikanta Das proposed to hike the e-mandate for recurring payments to Rs 1 lakh from the current Rs 15,000

Sequoia-backed mobile wallet Mobikwik selects banks for $84 million IPO

The Gurugram-based fintech firm is working with DAM Capital Advisors Ltd and SBI Capital Markets Ltd for preparations for its listing

Paytm trims losses to Rs 290 crore in Q2, total income increases 8%

The Noida-based fintech's total income rose 8 per cent on a quarter-on-quarter basis from Rs 2,464.2 crore in Q1FY24 to Rs 2,662.5 crore in Q2FY24

India's UPI system leading in cross-border payment: US treasury official

India's Unified Payments Interface system (UPI) stands out in advancing bilateral links with other countries, including Singapore and the United Arab Emirates, a US treasury official said. In a speech at Harvard Law School on Wednesday, Jay Shambaugh, Under Secretary of US Treasury for International Affairs, spoke on new technologies and cross-border payments. He said a set of ASEAN countries have the greater ambition of interlinking their fast payment systems multilaterally. Shambaugh said several initiatives are already underway to upgrade legacy payment systems. He said payment service providers, system operators, banks, and FMIs are investing in operational improvements to make their systems faster, cheaper, more transparent, more accessible, and more efficient for individual or financial sector users. "For example, institutions around the world are presently at different stages of implementing the ISO 20022 messaging standard. This standard is more data-rich than its precursor

Here's how the Indian banks are making $64 billion from a freebie

Since April, customers dipping into their mobile-phone wallets to settle bills of more than Rs 2,000 ($24) have to bear a maximum

No phones, cards needed, your car can pay for its fuel and Fastag directly

The service can be availed by linking the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) with the car's infotainment system, thus eliminating the need for a smartphone to make payments

The next orbit of financial inclusion will be in the offline world

Payment solutions will allow transactions when connectivity is poor or if there is a systems breakdown

PhonePe forays into online stock broking as it expands its services

The platform will charge users an onboarding price of 199 rupees, while there will be no charge for trades of up to 400 rupees, the company said in a statement

When money talks: All you need to know about voice-based payment method

PhonePe, the digital payments firm, has launched a service by creating voice-based alerts for payments