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Razorpay aims to work with RBI on payment gateways’ norms

The leadership team aims to interact closely at a policy level with regulators, says Razorpay CEO Harshil MathurRBI might bring payment gateways and payment aggregators under its direct supervision

2 min read13 Oct 2019
Industry

UPI transactions worth over ₹1 trillion conducted in December

620.17 million UPI transactions worth 102,594.82 crore were conducted in December, as compared to 524.94 million transactions valued at 82,232.21 crore in Novemberan 18% increase in transaction volume

1 min read1 Jan 2019
Industry

WhatsApp seeks RBI nod to expand payment services to all users

WhatsApp noted that the platform had rushed to ensure that the payments data is stored in India, immediately after the RBI came out with a directive outlining the new payments data storage requirements in April this year

3 min read2 Dec 2018
Politics

UPI 2.0 falls short of analysts’ expectations

The 'block functionality' feature, which will enable the issuing banks to block a certain sum in an account as security, is useful only in case of credit card users, says a person familiar with the development

1 min read17 Jul 2018
Politics

Upgraded UPI may be rolled out on Friday

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which manages the UPI platform, presented a demonstration of UPI 2.0 to some top bank officials on Tuesday

2 min read3 Jul 2018
Industry

RBI may soon introduce mobile wallet interoperability rules

Banks and the PPI industry have been waiting for the RBI to issue operational guidelines on interoperability for several months now

2 min read25 Jun 2018
Industry

NPCI hits 1 billion transaction volume in July

NPCI's target is a billion transactions a day in next three years, says MD and CEO A.P. Hota

1 min read5 Aug 2017
Industry

NPCI starts search for CEO A.P. Hota’s successor

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has invited applications from 20 years of experience in financial services thorough will payments ecosystems

1 min read20 Jul 2017
Industry

UPI transactions cross 10 million mark in June, says NPCI

Unified Payments Interface's (UPI) transaction volume has risen to 10 million in just 11 months from less than 1 million in August 2016, says National Payments Corp. of India (NPCI)

1 min read3 Jul 2017
Industry

NPCI CEO A.P. Hota says number of digital transactions declining

NPCI CEO A.P. Hota says Inclination to use digital transactions has not happened as effectively as National Payments Corporation of India had expected

2 min read5 May 2017
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