MCX shares hit record high on report of electricity derivatives launch this yearShare price of Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX) surged to a record high following reports that the exchange is set to launch electri...
17 Jun, 2025, 01.14 PM IST
NPCI appoints Sohini Rajola as executive director-growthRajola, who was heading the Asia Pacific business at Western Union, becomes the payments body’s first ED. The Mumbai-based payments network...
02 Apr, 2025, 02.20 PM IST
NPCI working on ‘Digital Payments Score’ to improve the credit identity of IndiansIndia is an under penetrated market when it comes to retail credit, even when Indian Fintech companies are witnessing substantial growth in...
07 Feb, 2024, 07.59 PM IST
UPI transactions seen growing over 50% annually: NPCI’s Praveena RaiUPI crossed the 10 billion transactions milestone for the first time in August, from 9.9 billion transactions in July, according to data re...
14 Sep, 2023, 07.40 PM IST
Nokia integrates UPI service in its 4G feature phonesNokia brand mobile phone maker HMD Global has integrated UPI service in its 4G feature phones Nokia 105 and Nokia 106. The newly launched 4...
18 May, 2023, 09.40 PM IST
Payments Council of India re-elects Vishwas Patel as chairmanSrinivasu founded BillDesk twenty years ago along with Ajay Kaushal and Karthik Ganapathy, his colleagues at Arthur Andersen. He led the co...
25 Mar, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Union Bank, NPCI launch credit card for MSME borrowers to meet biz expensesMSMEs will also get specially curated efficient business services on this card, which will help them in taking their business on most of th...
26 Feb, 2022, 09.34 AM IST
ET Financial Inclusion Summit: Speed of internet is still a dragIndustrialisation had a role to play and with improved telecom connectivity, the lag will ease out. Industry stakeholders have also raised ...
16 Jul, 2021, 07.30 AM IST
Pandemic increased momentum of digitisation: NPCI COODigitisation has revolutionized every single aspect of life and onboarding has risen substantially. There has been gradual migration from c...
12 Dec, 2020, 06.44 PM IST
NPCI launches RuPay commercial card, SBM Bank and EnKash first to collaborateRupay plans to expand its portfolio to business users with large corporates and smaller businesses.
23 Jul, 2020, 02.03 PM IST
Paytm allows Vodafone Idea feature phone users to recharge using UPIPraveena Rai, chief operating officer of NPCI said the USSD-based service would facilitate feature phone users having a UPI ID to keep in t...
26 May, 2020, 09.50 PM IST
Focus on digital payments needed like washing our hands and wearing masks: Praveena RaiIt is about the entire ecosystem in the country benefiting from moving to safe payments on digital, says COO, NPCI.
22 Apr, 2020, 05.05 PM IST
Banking has faced only minimum disruption: Shaktikanta Das“Banks have been required to put in place business continuity plans to operate from their disaster recovery sites and to identify alternate...
18 Apr, 2020, 07.19 AM IST
NPCI offers recharge option for FASTag through BHIM UPIAny BHIM UPI-enabled mobile app would now give vehicle owners the opportunity to recharge their FASTags on the go and avoid queues at toll ...
26 Dec, 2019, 01.45 PM IST
FASTag, mobility cards big focus for us this year: NPCI COOPraveena Rai says it's a year for transit and FASTag is going to be a big focus for NPCI.
06 Aug, 2019, 04.07 PM IST
RuPay has issued 64 million global cards using the Discover networkThe cards are accepted across 41 million merchants in 190 countries and have more than 200 offers running.
07 Mar, 2019, 04.09 PM IST
NPCI appoints Praveena Rai as COO, Arif Khan CDOAs COO, Rai will be in-charge of formulating and deploying the marketing, business development, product management and operations strategy.
21 Feb, 2019, 09.22 PM IST