Large corporates, including fintech, have requested the RBI on how they could access the data from UPI
Last month, the government withdrew the Personal Data Protection Bill from the Lok Sabha and IT Minister had said the Centre was hopeful of getting a new legislation passed by the next Budget Session
By helping to eliminate information asymmetry across the user journey, fintech has made the equitable distribution of financial services easier. This ensures better inclusivity.
At least five Indian banks, including the State Bank of India and ICICI Bank, are in discussions with Singapore's DBS Bank to start a real-time remittance system using UPI as the backbone
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Rama Mohan Rao Amara, MD & CEO, SBI Card spoke on the reasons behind record spends, the company's ideal run rate of issuance of credit cards, impact of RBI's discussion paper on payment charges.
Digital payment transactions value through UPI rose to Rs 10.73 lakh crore in August this year, up marginally from the previous month, data showed on Thursday. In July 2022, the UPI-based digital transaction value stood at Rs 10.63 lakh crore. The value of UPI transactions during August this year relates to a total of 6.57 billion (657 crore) transactions, up from 6.28 billion (628 crore) in the preceding month, as per the data released by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). In June, there were 5.86 billion transactions, valued at worth Rs 10.14 lakh crore. Of the other data sets on the NCPI framework, the instant transfer-based IMPS clocked transactions worth Rs 4.46 lakh crore in August, relating to a total of 46.69 crore transactions. In July, it stood at Rs 4.45 lakh crore in value terms through a total of 46.08 crore transactions. The NETC FASTAG for automatic toll deduction at toll plazas witnessed transactions worth Rs 4,245 crore in August, up from Rs 4,162
Under PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, up to Rs 19,000 crore were transferred directly into bank accounts of 95 million beneficiaries in a single day, he added
NPCI's directive comes days after a discussion paper was released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) related to such charges
If financial inclusion is the goal of issuing CBDCs, it might not be worth it since UPI has been fairly successful in achieving it
Smaller transactions dominate the system. Nearly seven out of every 10 transactions initiated via UPI are for less than Rs 500
Banks pay a switching fee running into hundreds of crores every year for UPI, but have to offer the service for free
Payment aggregators have received nothing, says Vishwas Patel as RBI discussion paper starts debate
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'The concerns of the service providers for cost recovery have to be met through other means,' tweets the ministry
The RBI has asked for feedback and suggestions before October 3
Will you be comfortable paying for your daily UPI transactions? This is one of the many questions that the RBI has asked from the public as it wants to help make this digital ecosystem sustainable.
Charges for payment services should be reasonable and competitively determined for users while also providing optimal revenue stream for the intermediaries, states the discussion paper
Success shows 'innovation prowess' of indigenous payment structure and fintech companies, he says
Fintech-facilitated lending will grow by $476 billion to reach $514.6 billion in book size by 2030