Debit Cards

This is a first among companies that have decided to offer direct solutions to customers without requiring a merchant's reliance on third-party payment orchestration platforms

The Budget earmarked Rs 437 crore to promote such transactions in financial year 2026 (FY26), compared to Rs 2,000 crore allocated the year before

The number of credit cards has more than doubled to around 10.80 crore in five years through December 2019 but the number of debit cards has remained relatively stable, says a Reserve Bank report released on Monday. The report also said digital payments in India have grown exponentially in the last decade. While in calendar year (CY)-2013 there were 222 crore digital transactions valued at Rs 772 lakh crore, it has increased 94 times in volume and more than 3.5 times in value to over 20,787 crore transactions valued at Rs 2,758 lakh crore in CY-2024. "In the last five years alone, digital payments in India have increased 6.7 times in volume and 1.6 times in value. This amounts to a five-year CAGR of 45.9 per cent in terms of digital payments volume and 10.2 per cent in terms of digital payments value," said the Payment System Report, December 2024. It further said at end-December 2024, the number of credit cards has more than doubled to around 10.80 crore as compared to December 201

Spends are 20% higher than traditional cards

The government's allegations include that Visa made exclusive agreements to hinder the expansion of competing networks and thwarted efforts by technology companies to enter the market

The central bank has aimed to tighten scrutiny of the processes followed by financial technology, or fintech, companies

Visa, the world's largest payments network operator, and its closest rival Mastercard, in 2019 agreed to a 0.2% fee cap on non-EU debit card payments

Digital payments platform Visa on Tuesday said it has appointed Sujai Raina as the country manager for India. Besides, Sandeep Ghosh will continue in his role as Group Country Manager for India and South Asia. He will oversee operations in India and other markets in the subcontinent, including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives, Visa said in a statement. Raina will be responsible for the India business, leading and executing Visa's strategic initiatives for the market, partnering with clients and the payments ecosystem. In addition to his responsibilities as Country Manager, he will continue to lead business development for Visa in India, the statement said. Raina joined Visa in 2020 and previously served as Vice President and Head of Business Development, India. "India's growth trajectory, and the scale and sophistication of its payment systems, presents a significant opportunity for the continued growth of secure digital payments, driving cash displacement, ..

Last month, the RBI had ordered Visa to stop using an unauthorized route to make business-to-business card payments which used fintech companies as an intermediary

Banking regulator issue directions to card networks, fintechs to put on hold all commercial card-based transactions made by firms

Credit cards also appeat to be most dominant in West and South India as 75-80% of credit cards are issued in Western and Southern India.

The ATS of P2M transactions dipped 21 per cent from Rs 839 in H1 2022 to Rs 659 in H1 2023

In August, UPI transactions hit 10 billion for the first time in a month. Monthly UPI payments are clocking more than Rs 15 trillion

When you are travelling abroad you have broadly three easy options for making transactions - Prepaid cards, Debit Cards and Credit Cards.

The cash in circulation in the Indian economy has more than doubled since demonetisation

The government on Friday said no TCS will be levied on international spending of up to Rs 7 lakh a year by using debit or credit cards. Facing backlash from a wide section of people, the Finance Ministry said the move is aimed at removing procedural ambiguity with regard to Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) and the levying of Tax Collected at Source (TCS). The ministry's decision earlier this week to bring international credit card spending under the RBI's liberalised remittance scheme (LRS) and the consequent levy of 20 per cent TCS has evoked sharp reactions from experts and stakeholders. "To avoid any procedural ambiguity, it has been decided that any payments by an individual using their international Debit or Credit cards up to Rs 7 lakh per financial year will be excluded from the LRS limits and hence, will not attract any TCS," the ministry said in a statement. Currently, payments of up to Rs 7 lakh for medical treatment abroad and towards education do not attract TCS. TCS

All RuPay JCB Debit & Credit Cardholders will be offered 40% cashback on in-store purchases in the UAE, Thailand, Malaysia and Spain

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is exploring options for further tie-ups to strengthen the global acceptability of RuPay debit cards. Currently, RuPay cards are accepted at the points of sale (PoS) machine powered by Discover of the US, Diners Club, JCB of Japan, Pulse and Union Pay of China. This needs to be strengthened, and NPCI is working in this direction so that users of RuPay cards are at par with those using Visa or Mastercard, sources said. In March 2012, RuPay went global by tying up with Discover Financial Services to bring international services to Indians. It has strengthened its network capabilities by launching RuPay JCB Global Card in association with JCB International Co Ltd in July 2019. The RuPay JCB Global card can be used at RuPay card accepting points in India and JCB card accepting points outside India for PoS, E-Commerce and ATM. RuPay, a product of NPCI, is the domestic card payment network of India, with wide acceptance at ATMs, POS devices

A variety of reasons are responsible for the decline in debit card usage. Notably, UPI is available on mobile phones and has done away with the need to always carry a card

There are more than 7 billion transactions every month using the payment system - more than five transactions for every man, woman and child in the country