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India delays UPI market share cap deadline

India has postponed the roll out of a cap that would limit the market share of third party app providers using the country's Unified Payments Interface (UPI).

13 January 2025

News/payments

WhatsApp Pay made available to all Indian users

Meta-owned WhatsApp has been given the greenlight to roll out its P2P payments service to all of its Indian users.

03 January 2025

News/payments

Trinidad and Tobago to roll out India's UPI payments tech

Trinidad and Tobago is the latest country to sign up with NPCI International Payments for the development of a real-time payments system based on India's UPI.

30 September 2024

News/security

NPCI cuts off hundreds of banks over IT vendor ransomware attack

More than 200 cooperative and regional rural banks were briefly cut off from India's retail payments system last week by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) amid concerns that C-Edge Technologies had been hit by a ransomware attack.

05 August 2024

Company announcement/payments

UPI QR payment acceptance comes to UAE

Network International (Network), the leading enabler of digital commerce across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, in partnership with NPCI International Payments Ltd. (NIPL), has enabled the acceptance of QR code-based Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payments across Network’s point-of-sale (POS) terminals in the UAE.

03 July 2024

News/inclusion

Peru signs for India's UPI tech

Peru is the latest country to enlist NPCI International Payments to help build a real-time payments system based on India's UPI.

05 June 2024

News/payments

Namibia signs on for India's UPI tech

The Bank of Namibia has called in NPCI International Payments to help the southern African country develop an instant payments system based on India's hugely successful UPI.

03 May 2024

News/payments

India's UPI comes to Nepal

India's ambitions to take its Unified Payment Interface global has taken a step forward thanks to a link up with Nepal's Fonepay.

11 March 2024

News/payments

India partners Google Pay to take UPI global

India's NPCI is joining forces with Google Pay to bring its hugely popular Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to other countries.

17 January 2024

News/payments

UAE to launch national domestic card scheme

The United Arab Emirates is to establish its own domestic card scheme in a bid to encourage strategic independence from the Visa/Mastercard duopoly.

18 October 2023

Company announcement/payments

Pepper Money launches RuPay powered prepaid card

Pepper Money India has partnered with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and Pine Labs to launch a RuPay prepaid card in India, Pepper Money Dreams Card.

05 October 2023

Company announcement/payments

PPRO signs strategic partnership with NPCI International

PPRO, the leading digital payments infrastructure provider, has signed a strategic agreement with NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL) to offer global partners access to Unified Payments Interface (UPI), India’s fastest-growing, real-time payment system, for cross-border transactions.

27 April 2023