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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.
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.
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.
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is an Indian instant payment system as well as protocol developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) in 2016. The interface facilitates inter-bank peer-to-peer (P2P) and person-to-merchant (P2M) transactions.
It allows users to pay through Aadhaar number, UPI payment address or through account number and IFSC code thus, minimizing the need to pay using debit and credit cards which are, supposedly, less secure than BharatQR. [3] The system also supports Dynamic QR code generation which eliminates the need to enter the amount for payment. [4]
The PhonePe app, based on the Unified Payments Interface, went live in August 2016. [9] [10] The PhonePe app is accessible in 11 Indian languages. [11] It enables users to perform various financial transactions such as sending and receiving money, recharging mobile and DTH, making utility payments, conducting in-store payments. [12] [13]
Aadhaar (Hindi: आधार, lit. ' base, foundation ') [7] is a twelve-digit unique identity number that can be obtained voluntarily by all residents of India, based on their biometrics and demographic data. [8]
The National Unified USSD Platform (NUUP), also known as the *99# service, is a platform that provides access to the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) service over the USSD protocol. Initiated by the Government of India and developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), it facilitates access to banking services from mobile phones.