The story so far: On January 10, the National Payments Corporation of India paved the way for international numbers to be able to transact using UPI. Addressing theinfrastructural and technological changes required to support such payments, he said, “Currently, all the internal systems as well as ecosystem players such as banks, NPCI, etc only understand India-based mobile numbers for UPI …
Unified Payments System was launched by the National Payments Corporation of India with the aim of integrating the payment mechanisms of India. However, this lack of a transaction fee on UPI platforms has become a bone of contention between the Finance Ministry and the Payment Council of India, which represents the digital payment aggregators operating in India. For the same, …
The central government has clarified its position on reports claiming that it may levy additional charges on UPI payments. The tweet also said that the cost of recovery has to be met through other means, and the government has provided financial support for the digital payments ecosystem in the country. Although the paper did not only relate to UPI transactions, …
If you own a smartphone, you have most probably done UPI-based payments using BHIM or some other mobile application. Secondly, a Payment Service Provider takes care of the to-and-fro transactions to this VPA and finally, the UPI software orchestrates the fund movement from a customer’s VPA to a target VPA and completes the transaction. A ubiquitous payment system The popularity …
Globally, the pandemic has had a transformative impact on digital payments in terms of adoption and growth. The RBI’s persistent steps furthering digital payments have supported last year’s challenges and forced wide-spread digitization. Avenues emerging last year to further UPI include recurring payments via UPI AutoPay, UPI based remittances and cross-border payments, NPCI’s international subsidiary) and offline PoS payments via …