Updated and re-posted on 11.06.2021 Automated 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 The money can be withdrawn from ATM at any point of time round the clock convenient to the bank customers.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,…
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…
ISO 20022 (pronounced ‘ISO twenty-oh-twenty-two’) or Universal financial industry message scheme (also called” UNIFI”) is a global standard for exchanging electronic messages between financial institutions. The ISO 20022 standard covers financial information transferred between financial institutions that include payment transactions, securities trading, and settlement information, credit as well as debit card transactions, Foreign Exchange transactions,…
The Ministry of Finance, Department of Financial Services Government of India in its letter dated 17th July 2012 had advised all the public sector banks that “No PSB can issue any LC or BG after 01.08.2012 except through SFMS system”. Further, the department has advised that the IFN 760 COY Bank Guarantee Message and IFN…
IFSC is a short form for Indian Financial System Code. Usually, this code can be found on the passbook and the cheque leaves provided by the bank. IFSC Code is significant to transfer funds online between banks in India. It enables instant fund transfer through modes such as NEFT/ RTGS and IMPS, thus providing safety…