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Knowledge Nugget | RBI Digital Payments Index: A must-know for UPSC Exam
August 07, 2025 10:57 am
What does the recently released composite Reserve Bank of India – Digital Payments Index (RBI-DPI) say about the status of digital payments in India? What is Unified Payments Interface (UPI), and how did it change the mode of money transaction in the country? Here's what you need to know.
New UPI rules from today: All you need to know
August 01, 2025 9:05 am
UPI new changes: Launched in 2016 by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the UPI has changed how people send and receive money in the country.
Free UPI has borne good fruits, but cost of service has to be paid: RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra
July 25, 2025 10:42 pm
The Indian government has repeatedly rejected talk of a fee being charged on UPI transactions in the future.
Our digital infrastructure is built on systems from China and the US. But India has all the ingredients to close this gap
July 07, 2025 3:57 pm
Can India pioneer a model of collaborative AI that balances innovation with public interest, sovereignty with solidarity? If so, India won’t merely digitise. It will define the next generation of digital public goods
Swipe, tap, exclude: The uneven march towards financial inclusion
July 01, 2025 7:17 pm
Over two-thirds of Indians who use digital devices struggle with basic digital banking transactions, highlighting the persistent challenge of bridging the digital literacy and access gap
In the age of digital payments, businesses still rely on cash
June 06, 2025 8:00 pm
Although digital means have helped facilitate business transactions, the advent of UPI is yet to make a pronounced change in the manner in which many Indian firms handle their day-to-day transactions, considering that many of them have still continued to rely on petty cash
One third of digital payments in India driven by credit cards and EMIs, says survey
April 13, 2025 8:01 am
These findings come amid tightening regulatory measures aimed at curbing rising consumer credit and growing household debt, which is increasingly fuelling consumption rather than asset creation.
UPI faced outage second time this week with ‘intermittent declines’ in successful transactions
April 03, 2025 1:22 pm
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which runs the UPI network, acknowledged the issue in a post on X.
Post-pandemic payments landcape: Digital payments surge, but some gaps remain; cash comes back too
March 31, 2025 1:31 am
For instance, six years after it was first proposed, the Reserve Bank of India’s New Umbrella Entity (NUE) scheme continues to remain in limbo
Post-pandemic payments landscape: Digital payments surge, but some gaps remain; cash comes back too
March 30, 2025 9:27 pm
While these features have been innovative solutions to the UPI ecosystem, there is also a doubt on innovation beyond UPI.
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