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BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) is an Indian state-owned mobile payment app developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), based on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). Launched on 30 December 2016, [ 1 ] it is intended to facilitate e-payments directly through banks and encourage cashless transactions.
This is a list of applications supporting the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), an Indian instant payment system as well as protocol developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) in 2016.
A committee on digital payments led by Nandan Nilekani had suggested that NPCI should internationalise payment services like UPI, RuPay and BHIM. [146] NPCI is planning to link UPI with standalone mobile wallets so that users can transfer money from one provider to another one which until now is restricted due to use of closed source technology.
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is an Indian public sector company that operates retail payments and settlement systems in India. The organization is an initiative of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Indian Banks' Association (IBA) under the provisions of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, for creating a robust payment and settlement infrastructure in India.
PhonePe is an Indian digital payments and financial services company headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. [5] [6] It was founded in December 2015, [7] [2] by Sameer Nigam, Rahul Chari and Burzin Engineer. [8]
Kunal Shah, founder of Freecharge. Freecharge was founded in August 2010 by Kunal Shah and Sandeep Tandon. [5] [6] [7] After receiving seed funding of an undisclosed amount from Tandon Group and Sequoia Capital in 2010, [8] the company secured Series A funding of ₹200 million from Sequoia Capital in 2011. [9]
This service issues UPI IDs to its Indian customers to allow for secure payments. The mechanism of Amazon Pay UPI is the same as other UPI apps like BHIM, Paytm and PhonePe. Anyone with Amazon India app can access this service. [9] By mid-2024, Amazon Pay was one of the top 10 apps on UPI, accounting for 0.5% of all transactions in July 2024. [10]
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