digital payments

The Reserve Bank of India has decided to push the deadline for implementing new rules on recurring transactions by another six months! Prior to this announcement, India's apex bank said that the new rules would kick in starting April 1...

One of India’s largest and oldest insures LIC aka the Life Insurance Corporation of India has brought forward an opportunity of a lifetime for all the digital payment processing entities in India. In order to digitise and ease the payment...

The mammoth tech-petroleum conglomerate Reliance aims to create its own version of UPI! According to the latest news, the Mukesh Ambani-led RIL has partnered up with internet giants Google and Facebook to set up a "New Umbrella Entity" aka NUE...

It's time to get your brain prepped to do some much-needed homework and commit to memory the 16-digit numbers from all of your debit/credit cards! Why? Because the Reserve Bank of India’s newly issued guidelines might not leave you with...

In a bid to improve governance, India’s central bank has decided to tighten the norms around security and compliance for banks and fintech companies. Aiming to help improve on factors such as security, control and compliance, the Reserve Bank of...

Small retailers and businesses survived the global pandemic that plagued 2020 on the back of rapid digitisation by relying on platforms which helped them power e-commerce, deploy touchless payments and so much more.  But, now that we have entered into...

The digital payment company PhonePe has raised Rs 5,000 crore (approx $690 million) in a fresh round of funding. After the new round of investment, the company is now valued Rs 45,000 crore (post-money valuation) that will help the...

Google has decided to levy fee on instant payment, starting from the US market. A few days back, Google rolled out a highly revamped version of its payment app Google Pay in the United States. But, it doesn’t come without...

The ongoing China-India border tension is resulting in more apps getting banned, and every time that happens the Indian startup unicorn Paytm comes under attack, either directly or indirectly. This time the arch-rival of Paytm, MobiKwik has taken a dig...

The grass really isn’t always greener on the other side. With the hoopla and convenience that Digital Payment platforms in India have afforded the customers, it has also come out as the perfect exponent of being two-edged swords. The National...