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Fintech PhonePe Announces Launch of Credit Line on UPI via its Platform

PhonePe announced the launch of Credit Line on UPI on its platform. Consumers who avail credit lines from their banks “can now link these credit lines to UPI on PhonePe and seamlessly make merchant payments.” This feature enables consumers to “make purchases with ease across millions… Read More

Setu and Axis Bank Launch UPISetu, India’s UPI-focused Payments Platform for Businesses

Setu, a Pine Labs company, in partnership with Axis Bank, launched UPISetu, India’s UPI-focused payments platform for businesses and developers. NPCI’s UPI has seen a rise in India “with Person-to-Merchant (P2M) transactions alone witnessing a phenomenal rise of 241% from 2.56 billion transactions in June… Read More

NPCI International Payments and Central Reserve Bank of Peru to Enable UPI-like Real-Time Transactions

NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL) and the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP) have announced a partnership to enable the deployment of a UPI-like real-time payments system in Peru. This collaboration marks a significant milestone, “making Peru the first country in South America to adopt… Read More

Digital Payments: Fintech PhonePe and eSewa & Hotel Association of Nepal Pokhara to Support UPI Transactions

PhonePe announced that it has partnered with e-Sewa and the Hotel Association of Nepal (HAN) Pokhara to popularize UPI on the Fonepay Network, as a part of the Fewa New Year Festival which will be held from April 11-14th. The New Year festival is not… Read More

Indian Fintech PhonePe Clients Can Make Payments via UPI at Mashreq’s NEOPAY Terminals in the UAE

PhonePe App users traveling to the UAE can now make payments using UPI at Mashreq’s NEOPAY terminals, available across a wide array of retail stores, dining outlets, as well as tourist and leisure attractions. They simply need to “scan the QR code for seamless and… Read More

Akash Sinha, CEO at Cashfree Payments, Comments on UPI, Digital Payments and Fintech Sector Developments

Akash Sinha, CEO & Co-Founder, Cashfree Payments, has shared key insights with CI that are focused around UPI, digital payments and the overall Fintech space. Akash Sinha from Cashfree Payments notes that even with global economic uncertainty, the fintech sector in India has “continued to… Read More

UnionPay International, Malaysian Payment Network PayNet to Support Cross-Border QR Interoperability

UnionPay International (UPI) and Payments Network Malaysia Sdn Bhd, or PayNet, Malaysia’s national payments network jointly signed an agreement in Shanghai in order to support “the cross-border QR code linkage and enable the full acceptance of the UnionPay App (Chinese-mainland, Hong Kong and Macao versions)… Read More

Indian Fintech PhonePe Launches POS Solution for Merchant Partners

PhonePe announced the launch of its Point-of-sale (POS) device that enables merchants to accept payments via Debit Cards, Credit Cards and UPI, providing them with a simple and seamless settlement experience. The device comes preloaded “with the PhonePe POS App and supports transactions through tap/swipe/dip and… Read More

Digital Currency: Alchemy Pay Supports Indian Rupee for Local UPI Payments to Crypto On-Ramp

Alchemy Pay now supports India’s UPI domestic transfer payments for crypto purchases in India. By enabling users to pay by Unified Payments Interface, India’s domestic transfer system, it is possible for Indian bank account holders “to buy and sell cryptocurrency with the Indian rupee.” As a… Read More

Global Payments: PPRO, NPCI International to Provide Access to India’s UPI Payment System

PPRO, the digital payments infrastructure provider, has signed a strategic agreement with NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL) in order “to offer global partners access to Unified Payments Interface (UPI), India’s fastest-growing, real-time payment system, for cross-border transactions.” This latest agreement, “supported by a new framework… Read More

Fintech Pine Labs, Thomas Cook India to Enable UPI Payments to Merchants from G20 Nations

Pine Labs, a merchant commerce omnichannel platform and Thomas Cook (India) Limited, India’s foreign exchange service provider, have partnered with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), in “a pioneering initiative to ensure safe, seamless, convenient merchant payments via UPI for foreign nationals from G20 countries.”… Read More

Monetary Authority of Singapore, Reserve Bank of India Support Real-Time Payments

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) launched the linkage between Singapore’s PayNow and India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI). This will “enable customers of participating financial institutions in Singapore and India [1] to send and receive funds between bank… Read More

Indian Fintech Razorpay to Support Credit Cards on UPI Network

What was once an innovation is today “a way of life” for millions of consumers in India. Over the last two and a half years, transactions on the UPI network have “grown by a factor of 6 as digital payments have exploded in India,” according… Read More

India’s NPCI International Signs PayXpert as UK’s Acquirer for UPI, RuPay

NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the organization behind the largest real-time payment solution, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and the RuPay card Scheme, has  “signed an MoU confirming a partnership with the payments solutions provider… Read More

IATA Pay Introduced in India with Assistance from Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) recently confirmed that it teamed up with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to introduce IATA Pay in India. IATA Pay, which is available in several European markets, is an airline industry payment platform that provides optionality, convenience and an improved… Read More

UnionPay International Continues to Focus on Supporting Contactless Payments Adoption in Southeast Asia

UnionPay International (UPI) has introduced its SoftPOS (Point-of-Sale) solution for the first time using a payment tech that’s powered by SoftPOS provider, Soft Space. The SoftPOS solution will reportedly be launched in Malaysia and it’s expected to create various market opportunities for UPI to expand… Read More

Payments Fintech Paytm Explains how Unified Payment Interface Improves Digital Transactions in India

Unified Payment Interface, the easier way to transfer money from one bank in India to another, requires people to successfully complete the process of UPI registration. In order to do this, consumers need to create a unique UPI ID on any mobile payments app, like… Read More

NPCI, the Global Unit of National Payment Corp of India, and Liquid Group to Support QR Enabled Transactions

NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL), the global division of the National Payment Corporation of India, has teamed up with Liquid Group Pte. Ltd., a cross border payments provider, in order to support UPI QR-enabled payments acceptance in 10 different markets across North Asia and Southeast… Read More

India’s Paytm Payments Bank Approved for @Paytm UPI Handle by SEBI to Enable Seamless Payment Mandates for IPO Applications

Indian digital payments giant Paytm recently confirmed that its pleased to share that Paytm Payments Bank Ltd (PPBL) has been given approval for its @Paytm UPI handle from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to “enable fast and seamless payment mandates for IPO… Read More

Digital Payments are Now Being Used by A Third of Indian Households with Usage Spread Across Different Income Groups: Survey

A third or around 33% of households in India are now using digital payments, with usage being evenly spread across different income groups, according to a survey performed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and People Research on India’s Consumer Economy (Price). The… Read More

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