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Payments Council Launches Common Icon Library for Uniformity, Fraud Prevention [India]

December 2 2022

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“The Payments Council of India (PCI), the apex body of payments and settlement players in the country, has launched an initiative named ‘Project Pratima’ to standardise icons for payments across apps and platforms to make it easier for customers to identify digital payment icons. Gaurav Chopra, Executive Director of PCI told Moneycontrol, “It is a project which […]

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India’s Retail Digital Currency Pilot Launches on December 1st

December 1 2022

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• India

“The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced its first retail digital Rupee pilot will commence on December 1, 2022. “The pilot will test the robustness of the entire process of digital rupee creation, distribution and retail usage in real time,” said RBI. The pilot works like this: Participating banks distribute the e-rupee (e₹-R), in the same […]

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India Unveils Reworked Data Protection Bill Draft After ‘Extensive Consultations’

November 23 2022

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“India’s federal government has released a new draft bill for public comment on personal data protection after months of extensive consultations with relevant stakeholders. Labeled the Digital Data Protection Act 2022, the reworked draft bill has been described by the union minister for railways, communications, electronics and information technology Ashwini Vaishnaw as balanced in scope and favorable […]

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Airtel Payments Bank Rolls Out e-KYC-Based Face Authentication for Opening Saving Accounts

November 23 2022

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“Airtel Payments Bank announced the launch of a face authentication-based savings bank account opening for customers. The payments bank said the facility would further ease the account opening, making it seamless and convenient for customers. Airtel Payments Bank is the first Payments Bank in the country to offer this facility.The payments bank said the new […]

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Paytm, PhonePe, Google Pay Divided on UPI Market Share Cap; Government Won’t Intervene

November 3 2022

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• Google
• India
• PhonePe

“The Centre will not “actively intervene” in the matter of conflicting demands by India’s top payment providers over the issue of enforcing a 30% cap on the market share of. apps operating on the unified payment interface (UPI), top officials told ET. This follows contrasting demands on the issue by digital payment providers in recent […]

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Banks Fix Limits on UPI as Conflict Brews Over Cost of Transactions

October 31 2022

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“While the unified payments interface (UPI) transactions race to reach a billion transactions per day mark, a potential confrontation has been developing between regulations that call for UPI to remain free and Reserve Bank of India regulations that permit banks to cap the number of withdrawals from savings accounts. According to research by Ashish Das […]

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India’s Digital Rupee and How it’s Different from China’s

October 18 2022

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• China
• India

“Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman first disclosed the government’s intention to introduce India’s own CBDC – the e-rupee (e₹) – in March 2022. Highlighting the significance of CBDCs, the FM said, “We see clear advantages in a central bank- driven digital currency, because in this day and age, large transactions between institutions, bulk payments between countries, […]

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Can India’s UPI system Go global?

October 13 2022

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“In November 2019, Alphabet-owned Google wrote to the US Federal Reserves, asking the central bank to design its upcoming instant payments system FedNow on the lines of India’s Unified Payments Interface or UPI. It said, an open payments system fosters collaboration between technology and financial service providers, adding that India’s approach attained “amazing” results for banks, consumers and […]

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India’s Central Bank RBI Publishes Digital Currency Details — Confirms Digital Rupee Pilot Launching ‘Soon’

October 12 2022

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• India

“India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), published a report titled “Concept Note on Central Bank Digital Currency” Friday. The 51-page document explains the “objectives, choices, benefits, and risks of issuing” a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in India, the RBI described, adding that it has been exploring the pros and cons of […]

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India Extends Deadline to Levy Cap on Digital Payment Transactions

December 2 2022

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“India has decided to extend the deadline on capping the share of digital payment transactions by about two years to Dec. 31, 2024, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) said on Friday. The NPCI had said in late 2020 that payment firms will not be allowed to process more than 30% of the total […]