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Don’t incentivise cashless transactions

4 min read . 02 Sep 2021

The Modi government aims to grow India’s digital economy to $1 trillion by 2022. It is now focusing on getting merchants on the BHIM-UPI platform, besides promoting payments through QR code. Photo: Hindustan Times

Banking sector in 4 years of Modi govt: Note ban sets off surge in digital transactions

2 min read . 26 May 2018

India also stands at the forefront of the debate over data protection, helping to shape the global dialogue on next-generation ways to protect data. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

Privacy by design for financial services

4 min read . 21 Feb 2018

A prerequisite to a less-cash economy is financial inclusion. Illustration: Jayachandran/Mint

The long road to cashless India

4 min read . 16 Nov 2017

A file photo of a man using his Rupay debit card to pay for purchases at a store at Ibrahimpur. Photo: Yunus Y. Lasania/Mint

Model villages no longer model for others

4 min read . 10 Nov 2017

According to bankers, fintech companies and the Reserve Bank of India; while digital transactions spiked after the note ban, their numbers have since declined. Photo: HT

Moderation in digital money but drama elsewhere

2 min read . 06 Nov 2017

The major contributor to the growth of digital transactions was online payments business, say experts.

Digital transactions shoot up post demonetisation

2 min read . 05 Nov 2017

IRCTC app powers over 100,000 train tickets per day. Mobikwik’s payment gateway processes more than 100 million transactions a month. Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint (Indranil Bhoumik/Mint)

MobiKwik, IRCTC partner for train ticket bookings

1 min read . 03 Oct 2017

The NPCI-owned BHIM app is availing of Rs4.5 billion allocated this fiscal by the government for its aggressive promotion through cash-back and referral bonus incentives. Photo: HT

Assessing the 25 billion digital payments target

4 min read . 13 Sep 2017

A file photo of people waiting to exchange demonetised notes outside the RBI office in Bengaluru. Following last year’s demonetisation on 8 November, currency in circulation is down by about 25% from where it would otherwise have been. Photo: AFP

What the world can learn from India’s demonetisation experiment

2 min read . 11 Sep 2017

With 50 large service providers enabling BharatQR service, more than 300 million consumers will be able to use the digital payments services. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

50 large utility providers enable BharatQR service

1 min read . 07 Sep 2017

The value of UPI transactions rose around 22% to Rs4,127 crore in August from Rs3,381 crore in July. Photo: Mint

Digital payments see traction in August aided by rise in UPI usage

2 min read . 07 Sep 2017

While bitcoins and other crypto-assets are still in an embryonic state in India, the pace of acceptance is slowly picking up. Photo: AFP

Pointers to a future-ready payments policy

4 min read . 06 Sep 2017

Alphons Kannanthanam earned a reputation for being an earnest civil servant after making Kottayam the first fully literate town in the country as part of the literacy campaign launched by the communist state government in 1989. Photo: PTI

Alphons Kannanthanam says data security and digital empowerment to be key focus areas

1 min read . 04 Sep 2017

The government has set a target of 2,500 crore digital transactions for 2017-18 through UPI, USSD, AadharPay, IMPS and debit cards.

IT ministry asks banks to set up board-level panel to promote digital payments

2 min read . 30 Aug 2017

FASTags have been sold only by authorized banks so far. Photo: Mint

Electronic toll collection: FASTags now available online, at Common Services Centres

1 min read . 17 Aug 2017

The number of digital transactions, which grew significantly in the aftermath of demonetisation last year, has started showing a declining trend since March 2017. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

After demonetisation spike, digital transactions declining since March

1 min read . 19 Jul 2017

The number of debit card transactions increased by 158.3 million whereas credit card transactions grew by 34 million. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Digital transactions got major fillip after note ban: report

2 min read . 17 May 2017

As many as 16 government departments and ministries attended a workshop on digital payments organized by the IT ministry where the plans were presented, according to Aruna Sundararajan, secretary in the IT ministry.

Govt departments submit plans to meet digital transaction goal

1 min read . 01 May 2017

Demonetisation had brought the scarcity into focus as people had to do less cash transactions. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

News in numbers: Over 2.5 mn PoS machines at shops now, says NPCI

2 min read . 11 Apr 2017