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How to Do Mobile Recharge via Google Pay

Tasneem Akolawala | Sunday January 17, 2021

Here’s an easy guide on how to do mobile recharge via Google Pay. Before beginning the steps, if you’ve never used Google Pay, you will have to download it via the Google Play Store. It’s a free download and registering on the app is an easy process as well. It asks for your mobile number and verifies it via an OTP to register. Prepaid custom...

Here's How You Can Buy ICICI Bank FASTag On Google Pay In These Five Steps

Business | Edited by Nikita Prasad | Tuesday December 29, 2020

Google Pay-ICICI Bank FASTag: ICICI Bank today announced its collaboration with Google Pay for issuance of FASTag through UPI on the payments app.

PayPal's Xoom Adds UPI Payments For NRIs, PIOs To Remit Money To India In Real Time

Business | Edited by Nirmalya Sen | Tuesday December 22, 2020

Xoom customers can use the payments service to send money to 66 banks across India

WhatsApp Pay Refutes Allegations of Data Hacking by Spyware Pegasus in Supreme Court

ANI | Tuesday December 15, 2020

WhatsApp refuted before the Supreme Court the claims that its payment services system was not secure and reliable and can be hacked by Israeli spy software Pegasus.

ICICI Bank Launches iMobile Pay, Offers Payments, Banking Services For All

Business | Monday December 7, 2020

Customers of any bank can link their bank account, generate a UPI ID and start paying and shopping immediately

Paytm Money To Allow Investments In IPOs

Business | Edited by Peter Noronha | Monday November 30, 2020

Paytm Money launches IPO investments: The Paytm interface will allow investors to apply for IPOs through their UPI IDs, linked to bank accounts and also to change, cancel and resubmit their bids

HDFC Bank Is Down, Debit Card, UPI Transactions, and Even ATMs Not Working, Customers Say

Gopal Sathe | Sunday November 22, 2020

HDFC Bank is down for a large number of its customers in India, who are not able to use UPI payments, debit cards, or netbanking on the site. Users have taken to Twitter to complain, but the bank says the issue will be resolved soon.

Top Court To Hear Plea Seeking Regulation On UPI Platform Data On Monday

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday November 20, 2020

The Supreme Court has said it would hear on November 23 the plea filed by Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Viswam seeking direction to the RBI for framing regulation to ensure that data collected on UPI platforms is not "exploited" or used in any manner other than for processing payments.

Despite Government's Digitisation Drive, Cash Still Used For These Payments

Business | Edited by Nikita Prasad | Monday November 9, 2020

4 Years After Demonetisation: Digital payments made through RTGS, credit transfers such as NEFT, UPI, AePS, IMPS, etc, card payments etc grew 135.4 per cent from 1,459.02 crore in 2017-18 to 3,434.55 crore in 2019-20.

Google Pay, PhonePe Hit by India's Move to Limit Some Digital Payments Players

Reuters | Saturday November 7, 2020

Google criticised India's move to cap the share of transactions some companies within the country's digital payments space can account for, saying it would hinder the nation's burgeoning digital payments economy.

WhatsApp Payments: How to Send and Receive Money

Aman Rashid | Friday November 6, 2020

WhatsApp Pay now lets you make digital payments via WhatsApp. The feature is slowly being rolled out to users across india. In this article, we tell you how to send and receive money using WhatsApp Payments.

No Fee Will Be Charged For Sending Money Via WhatsApp: Mark Zuckerberg

World News | ANI | Friday November 6, 2020

No fee will be charged when sending money via WhatsApp, said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday following the nod by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) for WhatsApp to go live on UPI in the multi-bank model.

WhatsApp Pay Gets Green Signal in India in a Graded Manner, With 20 Million User Cap

Gopal Sathe | Friday November 6, 2020

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) announced today that WhatsApp can go ahead with the rollout of WhatsApp Pay in India. The company will be allowed to rollout in a “graded manner” the NPCI said, and it will first be allowed to do so with a maximum of 20 million registered users in UPI.

NPCI Announces 30 Percent Cap for Third Party UPI Apps Like Google Pay, PhonePe

Gopal Sathe | Thursday November 5, 2020

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has set a cap of 30% on total volume of UPI transactions processed by Third Party App (TPA) providers, which will come into place from January 2021. UPI — the Unified Payments Interface — has exceeded two billion transactions, according to the NPCI, with TPAs like Google Pay and PhonePe accoun...

ICICI Bank Is Down, Making Debit Card and UPI Transactions Fail for Many of Its Customers in India

Jagmeet Singh | Friday October 16, 2020

ICICI Bank is down for a large number of its customers in India. Many affected customers have raised complaints against the outage on social media. While several people are not able to make any transactions through ICICI Bank’s net banking service, some of them are not even receiving a one-time password (OTP) for their transactions.