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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

Company announcement/payments

Icici to launch RuPay credit cards

Icici Bank today announced its partnership with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to launch a range of credit cards on RuPay, the indigenous payments network.

29 August 2022

Company announcement/payments

NPCI taps PPRO for global payments growth

NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL), the international arm of National Payments Corporation of India, and PPRO, the leading global provider of local payments infrastructure have today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to partner together to expand and empower international growth of India’s digital payments ecosystem.

17 November 2021

Company announcement/payments

Fiserv and NPCI team to help banks and fintechs issue RuPay credit cards

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, has entered into a first-of-its-kind collaboration with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which leads the retail payments and settlement infrastructure in India with breakthrough products like Unified Payments Interface (UPI), Bharat Bill Payment System, and RuPay, to enable the launch of ‘nFiNi’, a ready stack of services that fintechs and banks can use to issue RuPay credit cards.

08 September 2021