UPI AutoPay enables users to generate a recurring e-mandate using any UPI payments application. It allows users to set timely mandates to pay using UPI on a periodic basis
Festive season demand lifted UPI volumes in August, while IMPS declined; FASTag and AePS posted strong gains, reflecting India's deepening digital payments adoption
RMG refers to online games where players wager real money and stand to win cash prizes
Cross-border UPI transactions rose 20 times to 7.55 lakh in FY25, with expansion to seven countries and over 1.5 million merchants accepting the platform
The Payments Council of India has reappointed Vishwas Patel and M N Srinivasu as chair and co-chair while inducting Nalin Bansal, alongside naming heads for key payments committees
Industry players add that while other monetisation-friendly avenues are emerging for UPI, those require to be developed further to offset the impact of free transactions
QR code, the little pixelated square, has changed how India pays or accesses information. Its applications are only limited by imagination
UPI New Rule form October: From October 1, you won't be able to send UPI collect requests to friends or family. Here's why NPCI is stopping the feature and what it means for your day-to-day payments.
The 'collect request' feature allows UPI users to send a payment request to another person, say, to split a dinner bill or remind a friend to return borrowed money
PhonePe processed 8.93 bn UPI transactions in July, ahead of Google Pay's 6.92 bn, as total UPI volume hit a record 19.46 bn worth ₹25.08 tn, NPCI data shows
NPCI uploads new data points on UPI from time to time. One of the reasons to do that is to provide an ecosystem-level overview to all ecosystem participants, including banks and fintechs
BharatPe will raise funds before the initial public offer, but the listing will take place only when market conditions are favourable, a top official of the unicorn fintech firm said. BharatPe, last week, announced that it had achieved operational profitability after excluding the employee stock ownership plan. "Whatever goals we set for ourselves, we have gone ahead and achieved them...profitability has to remain intact, and thereafter, once the market conditions are right, we will definitely go for an IPO. There will be a pre-IPO funding round, while an IPO is not on the cards for this financial year. Anything beyond that is a fair game, once the market conditions are right," BharatPe CEO Nalin Negi told PTI. The company closed FY25 with a Rs 6 crore adjusted profit before tax (excluding ESOP expense), recovering strongly from a loss of Rs 342 crore in FY24. "We have always believed that demonstrating consistent performance is key to building investor confidence ahead of a potent
BharatPe reported Rs 6 crore adjusted pre-tax profit in FY25, driven by revenue growth, UPI transactions, NBFC consolidation, and RBI's nod for payment aggregation
Paytm is intensifying its focus on innovation, with artificial intelligence at the core of its efforts to transform the future of digital payments, founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma said, reaffirming the company's commitment to becoming AI-first. "True to our DNA of innovation and pioneership, we are proud that our AI-led full stack payment solution continues to redefine how millions of merchants accept payments, run their business, and serve their customers. We remain committed to being AI-first, in every product we offer and every process that powers us," he said in his annual letter to shareholders. He further emphasised that Paytm's focus on core payment operations and the continued strengthening of its business fundamentals have set the company on a path toward sustainable growth and profitability. As one of the earliest and most aggressive adopters of AI in India's fintech space, Paytm has embedded this disruptive technology into each product and service journey, including
Every year, the central government earmarks a certain amount for the promotion of UPI peer-to-merchant (P2M) transactions and RuPay debit card transactions
New UPI rules aim to improve speed and stability of UPI transactions during peak hours
UPI transactions in July climbed to 19.47 bn in volume and Rs 25.08 tn in value, with AePS and IMPS also rising while FASTag saw a dip in both volume and value
Private lender to charge up to Rs 10 per transaction on PAs; move follows rising infra costs and lack of MDR revenues in fast-growing UPI ecosystem
Paytm, PhonePe, Google Pay and other such platforms will also set limits on account view and merchant verification in order to improve overall service
Indian digital payment landscape witnessed over 65,000 crore transactions amounting to more than Rs 12,000 lakh crore in the past six financial years, Parliament was informed on Monday. The government has been closely working with different stakeholders, including the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), fintechs, banks and state governments, to increase the adoption rates of digital payments in the country including in tier-2 and tier-3 cities, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha. RBI has set up a Payments Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF) in 2021 to encourage deployment of digital payments acceptance infrastructure in tier-3 to 6 cities, North-Eastern States and Jammu & Kashmir, he said. As on May 31, 2025, around 4.77 crore digital touch points have been deployed through PIDF, he said. Replying to another question, Chaudhary said, the New Digital Credit Assessment Model for MSMEs was