Your Permanent Account Number or PAN is an important document required to you to file your income tax return (ITR). In case you have lost or misplaced your PAN card, there is a provision of issuing instant e-PAN card by the Income Tax Department at their new income tax portal. There is also a facility…
Updated on June 15, 2021 The Bharat Bills Payment system is an interoperable platform for repetitive bill payments, currently covers bills of five segments viz. Direct to Home (DTH), Electricity, Gas, Telecom, and Water bills. RBI on September 16, 2019, notified that it has been decided to expand the scope and coverage of BBPS to…
Updated and re-posted on 11.06.2021 Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) are the alternative banking channels available to bank customers primarily for withdrawal of cash. The money can be withdrawn from ATM at any point of time round the clock convenient to the bank customers. The Automatic Teller Machines are generally identified as White Label, Brown Label,…
Digital payment methods are a good alternative to traditional methods of cash payment and speeden up transaction cycles from person to person, person to business, person to government, Government to person,business to business, business to Government etc. The Global report of US-based payment systems company ACI on payment trends states that in the year 2020…
NPCI is an umbrella organisation for operating retail payments and settlement systems in India, under the provisions of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, for creating a robust Payment & Settlement Infrastructure in India. It has been incorporated as a “Not for Profit” Company under the provisions of Section 25 of Companies Act 1956…
The state-of-the-art payment service *99# works on the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) channel. This service allows mobile banking transactions using the basic feature of mobile phones, there is no need to have a mobile internet data facility for using USSD based mobile banking. The above service is intended to take the banking services to…
National Financial Switch (NFS) is the largest network of shared automated teller machines (ATMs) in India. It was designed, developed, and deployed with the aim of inter-connecting the ATMs in the country and facilitating convenience banking. The network was taken over by NPCI from Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) on December…
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has developed the National Electronic Toll Collection (NETC) program to meet the electronic tolling requirements of the Indian market. It provides an electronic payment facility to customer to make the payments at national, state and city toll plazas by identifying the vehicle uniquely through a FASTag. All lanes…
BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) is an Indian mobile payment app developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), based on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). BHIM is built over the Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) infrastructure and allows the user to instantly transfer money between bank accounts of any two parties and encourage cashless…
In the payment space, third-party service providers are primarily in the form of TPAPs, Payment gateways, and Payment aggregators. Presently, around 200 crore UPI transactions are undertaken each month out of which a sizeable share are originated through the Third Party Application Providers (TPAPs). In the financial space, third-party apps are often connected to a…