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The RBI governor Shaktikanta Das launched the service called UPI 123PAY on 8 March 2022, with an aim to help almost 400 million feature phone users in the country. [52] Till now, UPI payments were only possible through payment applications on smartphones and USSD-based service for feature phones. However, as per Deputy Governor T Rabi Shankar ...
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.
The service was officially launched on 20 September 2022, and was a game changer, helping Rupay increase their market share. [62] For the first time, RuPay credit card usage topped ₹10,000 crore in a single month in December 2023, accounting for roughly 6% of the domestic credit card market. The number of RuPay credit cards in use surpassed ...
On 2 July 2023, a new version of Yono app was launched with the introduction of a new UPI feature which enabled other bank customers to use the app for UPI payments. The update also brought QR scanning and pay-by-contact UPI functionalities.
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]
Tez worked on the vast majority of India's smartphones (with apps for both Android and iOS) with the Android app supporting English, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, and Telugu. [1] There were plans to release the app in other emerging countries including Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand. [5] "Tez" is the Hindi word for "Fast".
The same year, it launched Paytm Gold, [31] a product that allowed users to buy as little as ₹1 of pure gold online. It also launched Paytm Payments Bank [32] [33] and ‘Inbox’, a messaging platform with in-chat payments. [34] By 2018, it started allowing merchants to accept Paytm, UPI and card payments directly into their bank accounts at ...
In 2015, eleven companies received In-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India to set up Payments Bank under the guidelines for Licensing of Payments Bank. [6]On 11 April 2016, Airtel Payments Bank became the first company to receive the Payments Bank license from the Reserve Bank of India under Section 22 (1) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.