United Payments Interface news and trends

Walmart Says PhonePe and Flipkart IPOs Years Away
Walmart // June 09, 2024

Walmart’s India-based eCommerce marketplace and payments company aren’t quite ready to go public. “This is something we’re looking at over the next couple of years,” Walmart’s executive vice president for corporate affairs, Dan Bartlett, told Reuters last week in reference to the company’s marketplace Flipkart...

Paytm Continues to Lose Digital Payments Ground to Google and Walmart
Digital Payments // June 06, 2024

India-based Paytm’s share of the country’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) continues to slip. The FinTech made up 8.1% of total UPI transactions last month, down from 13% in January, the National Payments Corporation of India said in data released Thursday (June 6). Paytm accounted for...

PhonePe and Mashreq Partner to Enable UPI Payments in UAE
Partnerships // April 01, 2024

Indian citizens visiting or working in the United Arab Emirates can now use the PhonePe app to make payments using the United Payments Interface (UPI) at Mashreq’s Neopay terminals. These transactions are facilitated by UPI, and the account debit will occur in Indian rupees, with the terminals showing the currency exchange...

RBI Aims to Help Establish New Banking Relationships for Paytm
International // February 23, 2024

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) asked the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to consider One97 Communications’ request to become a Third-Party Application Provider (TPAP) for the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) channel. The move is meant to enable continued operation of the Paytm app...

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Flipkart Launches UPI Payment App Offering Cashback Rewards

June 26, 2024
Walmart-owned Indian eCommerce firm Flipkart has launched a Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payment app that offers up to 5% cashback on purchases. The new super.money app is available on the Google Play store. “Unlike other UPI apps, we’ll never offer you useless coupons, scratch cards or coins,” the company said in the store. “Instead, get used to […]

Walmart Says PhonePe and Flipkart IPOs Years Away

June 09, 2024
Walmart’s India-based eCommerce marketplace and payments company aren’t quite ready to go public. “This is something we’re looking at over the next couple of years,” Walmart’s executive vice president for...

Paytm Continues to Lose Digital Payments Ground to Google and Walmart

June 06, 2024
India-based Paytm’s share of the country’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) continues to slip. The FinTech made up 8.1% of total UPI transactions last month, down from 13% in January, the...

PhonePe and Mashreq Partner to Enable UPI Payments in UAE

April 01, 2024
Indian citizens visiting or working in the United Arab Emirates can now use the PhonePe app to make payments using the United Payments Interface (UPI) at Mashreq’s Neopay terminals. These transactions are facilitated by UPI, and...