Slice eyes $50-100 million funding at lower valuation, sharpens digital bank pitchThe small finance bank has held discussions with VC funds and other investors at a time when fintech sector has come under increasing regul...
08 Apr, 2026, 09.02 PM IST
22k gold rate today: Check 22K, 24K gold prices (April 7, 2026) on Tanishq, Malabar Gold & Diamonds, Kalyan Jewellers, Joyalukkas and IBJAGold rate prediction: Gold prices are experiencing volatility amid heightened geopolitical tensions, with a US deadline for Iran creating u...
08 Apr, 2026, 02.48 PM IST
“Misselling isn’t just about commissions”: Bandhan Life CEO on insurance reality checkSatishwar B., MD and CEO, Bandhan Life Insurance, discusses the Public Insurance Registry, Bima Sugam, misselling and commissions, in a con...
06 Apr, 2026, 11.41 AM IST
UPI payments in India register steady growth YoY in November 2025Unified Payments Interface, or UPI, has seen a significant surge in transactions. In November 2025, UPI recorded over 19 billion transactio...
30 Nov, 2025, 04.01 PM IST
UPI surge pushes debit cards to the sidelines, now used mainly for cash withdrawalsUPI is now the dominant payment method in India, surpassing debit cards. Debit card usage at stores has fallen significantly. UPI's ease of...
30 Oct, 2025, 04.30 PM IST
UPI services restored after brief outage caused by bank-side technical issues says NPCIUPI services faced a significant nationwide disruption on Thursday due to internal technical issues at certain participating banks, as conf...
07 Aug, 2025, 10.39 PM IST
PhonePe appoints Shivnath Thukral as vice president of public policyPhonePe, owned by Walmart, has appointed Shivnath Thukral as its Vice President for public policy. Thukral will engage with policymakers on...
15 Jul, 2025, 10.46 AM IST
PSBs clock higher failure rates for UPI paymentsIn comparison, private players like HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, Yes Bank and IDFC First have an average UPI technical decline of 0.04...
01 Jul, 2024, 11.23 AM IST
UPI integration gives a fillip to RuPay credit cards distributionRuPay credit cards are seeing a growth in usage after linking with UPI, with its issuance at 30%, up from a mere 5% in 2022-23. The shift t...
14 Jun, 2024, 11.12 AM IST
NPCI eyes a more evenly sliced UPI pieAs of now, Walmart-backed PhonePe and Google Pay already control more than 80% of the UPI market between them, while Paytm has under 12%. H...
05 Mar, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
UPI hits new milestone of five billion transactions a month in MarchNPCI, which operates UPI along with other payments infrastructure including Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS), Aadhaar Enabled Payment Syst...
31 Mar, 2022, 11.25 PM IST
Eight banks suffer a higher rate of failure in digital transactionsThe failure rate is being seen as a concern in the fintech and payments sector ahead of the full-scale launch of WhatsApp Pay
21 Nov, 2020, 10.38 AM IST
Surging UPI failure rates worry banksTen of the top 30 banks using the country's UPI network record failure rates of over 3% in September. Nine of these banks were state-owned.
21 Oct, 2020, 05.27 AM IST
Amazon Pay lines up offers for UPI users, RuPay cardholdersAmazon pumped in Rs 590 crore into Amazon Pay in September, as per the company’s latest filings with the Registrar of Companies.
09 Oct, 2018, 07.56 AM IST
Going cardless is the new way to payWhile UPI is predominantly a peer-to-peer payment mode, the latest addition to its stable is UPI@PoS.
05 Apr, 2017, 01.54 PM IST
Digital payments slump in February as cash flow easesAccording to data released by the Reserve Bank of India on electronic payments for February, card payments on point of sale devices fell 28...
01 Mar, 2017, 03.38 PM IST
After surge, digital transactions show a slump in FebruaryUPI has shown a 9.5% drop while that of Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) hosted by National Payments Corporation of India has shown a 12.5%...
28 Feb, 2017, 08.15 PM IST