The dramatic increase in financial complexity has driven widespread adoption of digital personal finance management products over the past 12 months, according to the report by CRED Money, used by over 10 lakh Indians.
India's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) drives accessible and secure public services, transforming the digital economy.
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on Tuesday removed the unified payments interface (UPI) user onboarding limit for WhatsApp Pay with immediate effect.
The businesspersons have alleged that if any fraudster buys garments from their shops and makes payment into their bank account online or through UPI by the money duped through the fraud, the police and investigating agencies freeze the entire account of the shopkeeper.
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions at retail stores have witnessed a spike of 33%, underscoring the growing adoption of digital payments beyond Tier II regions in the country, a recent report has said.
The authors said that the success of UPI can be replicated in other countries as well and India can play a leading role in helping them adopt the fintech system.
UPI is the earliest implementation of an open-banking-based payment infrastructure that is free for customers and enables them to create verifiable digital financial footprints in real time.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday decided to expand the scope of pre-sanctioned credit lines on UPI to the Small Finance Banks (SFBs).
The UPI hit a milestone of 16.6 billion transactions in a month in October, with improvements in its capabilities like successful instant debit reversals at 86 per cent (77 per cent in the same month last year).
Paytm on Wednesday has announced the launch of a new UPI statement download service.
