RBI governor Shaktikanta Das launches Har Payment Digital for making every citizen a user of digital paymentson the occasion of Digital Payments Awareness Week (DPAW) 2023. This is part of RBI’s endeavour to make every person in India a user of digital payments. DPAW 2023 will be observed from March 6 to 12, 2023. The…
India’s central bank on Wednesday announced that all inbound travelers to India are permitted to access UPI for their merchant payments (P2M) using their international mobile numbers, while they are in the country. This is an enhancement to the earlier provision of UPI access to non-resident Indians who have international mobile numbers linked to their…
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on Tuesday (January 10, 2023) instructed members of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) ecosystem to allow non-resident account types such as non-resident external (NRE)/ non-resident ordinary (NRO) accounts having international mobile numbers to get on-boarded and transact through UPI. Till now, the service was only available for accounts…
The Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in his ‘Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies’ of December 7, 2022, announced special features like ‘Single-Block-and-Multiple-Debits (SBMD)’ within the UPI framework. Under the SBMD framework, once the UPI customer has given consent to block the money in their bank account, the merchant can make multiple…
The India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) has increased charges for the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS) service. The revised AePS Issuer transaction charges will be effective from December 1, 2022. “Any resident of India having an Aadhaar number linked to a bank account – referred to as an Aadhaar Enabled Bank Account (AEBA) – can…
In the statement of developmental and Regulatory policies dated June 8, 2022, the Reserve Bank of India stated that the auto-transactions up to Rs 15,000 no longer require customers to authenticate such payments manually with a One Time Password (OTP). This is after the regulator received requests from several stakeholders to increase the limit under…
With the account aggregation solutions, the user doesn’t have to physically provide hard copies of documents from various financial information providers like Banks/NBFCs, Mutual Fund Houses, and Insurance companies to various users like cash flow based lenders, personal finance managers, wealth managers, and Robo advisors in a secure and effectual manner. Through AA all financial…
In the Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies on October 8, 2021, the Reserve Bank of India announced that the transaction limit of Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) to be increased to ₹5 lakh. “In view of the importance of the IMPS system in the processing of domestic payment transactions, it is proposed to increase the…
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has introduced detailed guidelines for banks to redress frauds perpetrated on customers and merchants where a misuse or an error in biometric data or UIDAI seeding on Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS) have led to a loss of funds. The new rules effective from September 1, determines with…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announce a project to link their respective fast payment systems viz. Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and PayNow. Linkage of these two fast payment systems is a significant milestone in the development of infrastructure for cross-border payments between India and Singapore and closely…