Page 3 - தேசிய மின்னணு நிதி பரிமாற்றம் News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana
Digital solutions for Gen Next banking - The Hindu BusinessLine
thehindubusinessline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehindubusinessline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SBI online services, YONO, net banking, UPI to be down for 2 5 hrs today
businesstoday.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from businesstoday.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Author
With economic activity and the market in general seeing a decline amid the second wave of COVID pandemic in India, it seems like people have gone back to how things were during the first lockdown, as transactions and payments went for a dip. In simple terms, a report released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has revealed that payments through all forms, from Unified Payment Interface (UPI) to cash and NEFT transactions, have seen a sharp decline in the month of May.
As per the report, IMPS (real-time bank transactions), FasTag, and UPI, which are under the control of the National Payments Corporation of India, were amid the gateways which saw a significant decline, as were the RTGS and NEFT transaction gateways (which are mostly used for transferring large sums in business) run by the RBI itself. Even cash withdrawals from the ATM saw a dip.
Transactions on Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the National Payments Corporation of India’s (NPCI) flagship payments platform, have dropped in May, marking the second consecutive month of decline in digital payment transactions, due to a slowdown in economic activities because of lockdowns in various parts of the country. In May, UPI processed 2.53 billion transactions, down 4.16 per cent and 7.32 per cent from April and March, respectively. In value terms, UPI saw transactions worth Rs 4.9 trillion, down 0.66 per cent and 3 per cent from April and March, respectively. In March, UPI had recorded 2.73 billion transactions amounting to Rs 5.04 trillion, the highest count ever since its inception in 2017. But, since then, both volume and value of transactions dipped, in sync with the rise in Covid infections in the country and the subsequent curbs imposed by the local administrations.
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.