Shaktikanta Das reveals how India broke a ‘Chakravyuh’ and 7 steps for businesses to navigate war stormDuring a keynote speech, RBI ex-Governor Shaktikanta Das emphasised India’s remarkable ability to weather global storms. He referred to the...
09 Apr, 2026, 02.27 PM IST
How UPI can make India an architect of global financial connectivityIndia's triumph with UPI in digital payments is on the brink of revolutionizing cross-border money transfers. The goal is to enhance the sp...
07 Apr, 2026, 11.35 PM IST
Nandan Nilekani, Pramod Varma eye AI-led global rails for commerce in next leapThe architects of India’s digital public infrastructure (DPI), Nandan Nilekani and Pramod Varma, are now attempting their next leap: buildi...
07 Apr, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
Bajaj Finserv's AI push; Govt's UPI fixBajaj Finserv chairman Sanjiv Bajaj says the company will launch a dedicated fund for AI startups. This and more in today's ETtech Top 5.
30 Mar, 2026, 07.42 PM IST
UPI cleanup drive: Govt asks banks, NPCI to curb failures, boost success ratesWith the digital payment landscape in India experiencing rapid growth, there is a growing call for banks to partner with the National Payme...
30 Mar, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
RBI deploys AI to counter surge in hacking attempts; urges payments industry to trust regulationThe RBI is using artificial intelligence to combat a surge in hacking attempts on its website, all of which were successfully blocked. A se...
26 Mar, 2026, 07.41 PM IST
SBI, Kotak Bank scheduled maintenance: UPI, net banking, NEFT services to be temporarily unavailable on these daysSBI and Kotak Mahindra Bank customers should be aware of scheduled maintenance this week. SBI's digital services, including UPI, IMPS, and ...
15 Jul, 2025, 02.03 PM IST
NPCI planning to let users save UPI IDs at merchant checkoutsThe National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is preparing a major overhaul of the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) online checkout expe...
18 Apr, 2025, 08.12 AM IST
ETtech Explainer: Why do UPI payments fail and what is NPCI doing to check these failures?Banks generally operate at 85-95% success rate on UPI with most of the transaction failures happening due to business problems. Over the la...
16 Apr, 2025, 05.53 PM IST
NPCI attributes UPI outage to excessive API calls; plans preventive measuresThe third such incident in two weeks was traced back to certain PSP banks repeatedly sending requests, including for older transactions, wi...
15 Apr, 2025, 09.25 PM IST
Cashfree receives NPCI certification for its own UPI switchCashfree can offer settlement of around 12,000 transactions per second with this certification. Cashfree has built this switch in partnersh...
15 Oct, 2024, 04.27 PM IST
UPI AutoPay top of charts in low-ticket recurring paymentsUPI AutoPay is the recurring payment mandate run by the NPCI on the UPI payment mode. Consumers usually use the feature to pay for their en...
22 Dec, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
Paytm launches UPI SDK to enable customers pay directly within the merchant appPaytm's UPI SDK is part of the existing UPI acquiring arrangement between Paytm Payments Services Ltd. and Paytm Payments Bank, under which...
23 May, 2023, 01.06 PM IST
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DoI, developed by American researcher Everett Rogers in 1962, aims to study the adoption patterns of innovations or technology, describing ...
26 Oct, 2022, 10.50 PM IST
The Hunger Games that played out between food-delivery apps on Twitter on New Year’s eveThe live updates about the orders by Goyal and Majety provided inputs on how the two rival companies were handling the high volumes given Z...
01 Jan, 2022, 05.40 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
UPI scores 87% transaction success rate this MarchA success rate of more than 85% for UPI is ‘commendable’ given that cards are also in the range of 90%, top executives in the payments indu...
25 Apr, 2019, 08.30 AM IST