Reserve Bank of India has, over the past decade, put in place various safety and security measures for card payments, including the requirement of AFA, especially for 'card-not-present' transactions
There is no clarity on whether linking to UPI facility will be extended to credit cards of other card networks, such as Visa, Mastercard, American Express, etc
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday allowed linking of credit cards to Unified Payments Interface (UPI)
At the RBI policy announcement, Governor Das said that the new arrangement is expected to provide more avenues and convenience to the customers in making payments through the UPI platform
The company also revoked accepted offers from some candidates who haven't joined it yet
NPCI sets its eyes on processing a billion UPI transactions a day on its platform within the next 3-5 years
The US-based and Nasdaq-listed crypto exchange had halted payments via unified payments interface mode on its app in India last month
Value of transactions doubled on YoY basis
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The company, however, declined to comment on the matter
The fintech unicorn said its annualised TPV has grown 2.5x over the year-ago period to $16 billion at the end of the March quarter
The platform's target is to process a billion transactions a day in the next three to five years.
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There were a total of 452 crore (4.52 billion) transactions in February 2022
The international arm of the NPCI on Thursday announced to deploy UPI in Nepal to bolster interoperable real-time P2P, P2M and potential cross-border P2P remittances between Nepal and India.
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The AutoPay platform of UPI is also being touted as the pillar for its next phase of growth
"If we don't do anything, we will achieve this target in the next ten years. But we should aim to do it in the next 3 - 5 years' time," Asbe said