Unified Payments Interface

India’s UPI Real-Time Payments System Tops 9 Billion Monthly Transactions
India’s UPI Real-Time Payments System Tops 9 Billion Monthly Transactions
June 01, 2023  |  Real-Time Payments

India’s monthly Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transaction count has topped 9 billion in a single month. The real-time payments system’s transaction count hit 9.41 billion in May,...

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Singapore and India Debut Cross-Border Payment Link
Singapore and India Debut Cross-Border Payment Link
February 21, 2023  |  Partnerships

India and Singapore have linked their real-time payment systems to simplify cross-border remittances. The two countries’ central banks announced the linkage Tuesday (Feb. 21), saying...

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India Boots Coinbase From Payments Interface Days After It Enters Market
India Boots Coinbase From Payments Interface Days After It Enters Market
April 11, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

India may not have banned cryptocurrency outright, as threatened, but the government is certainly making life hard for exchanges trying to service its would-be buyers...

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India’s SBI Latest Bank to Bar Payments to Crypto Exchanges
India’s SBI Latest Bank to Bar Payments to Crypto Exchanges
September 16, 2021  |  Cryptocurrency

The State Bank of India (SBI) has cut off payments made with its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to cryptocurrency exchanges, the EconoTimes reported. The news...

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PayPal’s Xoom Adds Real-Time Payments For Remittances To India
PayPal’s Xoom Adds Real-Time Payments For Remittances To India
December 21, 2020  |  Global Payments

PayPal‘s Xoom, an international money transfer service, has integrated with NPIL’s/NPCI’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to offer inter-bank transactions in India, according to a press...

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India’s UPI Hits 1.34B In June Transaction Volumes
India’s UPI Hits 1.34B In June Transaction Volumes
July 26, 2020  |  Digital Payments

India has embraced its model for digital payments so much that it intends to take it global. Since its debut four years ago, India’s Unified...

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ENOC Taps Into Mobile Payments, Samsung Pay Comes To Australian Commuters
ENOC Taps Into Mobile Payments, Samsung Pay Comes To Australian Commuters
April 10, 2019  |  Global Payments

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the U.A.E.’s ENOC’s launch of a mobile option for...

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Zuckerberg Waiting For Green Light To Officially Launch WhatsApp In India
Zuckerberg Waiting For Green Light To Officially Launch WhatsApp In India
July 30, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

Facebook-owned WhatsApp is still working towards approval from the Indian government to officially launch its payment service across the country. In February, WhatsApp launched a...

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