WhatsApp Pay is an in-chat system which will allow users to chat with other people and with that make payments as well. The National Payments Corporation of India (NCPI) which regulates all the digital retail financial transactions in the country has finally allowed WhatsApp Pay to become a reality for the Indian users. Now WhatsApp can rollout out its payment feature for the Indian users, but there is a limit... Read More
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has made it very easy for people to transact money with each other. Be it for personal transactions or business transactions, it can be done instantly and without any extra cost. UPI is regulated and governed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NCPI). The regulatory body has made an announcement for a change that will soon come to the UPI apps. The announcement has come... Read More
Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio have been on the front end helping their customers survive the crisis. The telcos have been introducing new plans on the go to meet the requirements of their customers sitting in their homes. Everyone’s been affected due to the global spread of COVID-19 and there is no certainty for how long will this continue. Being in the lockdown means that people have to finish their... Read More
Reliance Jio is reportedly working with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to bring UPI Apps on JioPhones. Jio has been working on the NPCI infrastructure even before the Facebook deal was finalised. It is expected that working with NPCI will bring UPI apps for all the JioPhone users out there. Also, the move by Jio will encourage people for online payments and broaden the reach of Digital PaymentS in... Read More
WhatsApp will finally be able to roll out its digital payments platform WhatsApp Pay in India, after securing a key regulatory approval. The company has been trying to launch its payment feature for two years now. WhatsApp was granted a license to operate its UPI based payment service by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), an RBI official told Business Standard. The NCPI’s approval comes days after clearance from India’s... Read More
Reliance Jio, the Mukesh Ambani led telecom operator is the largest telecom company in India right now because of its massive 370 million-strong subscriber base. However, that is not the only special thing about Reliance Jio. The telecom company has also dipped its hands in new waters, times and times again and is continuously expanding verticals. A few months back, Reliance Jio launched its JioFiber FTTH service for the users.... Read More
Telecom operator Vodafone has been working hard to minimise the subscriber loss. The UK-based telco re-introduced the Rs 20 talk time prepaid plan offering 28 days service validity in select circles a few months ago. Now, we have observed that the company has come up with Rs 30 prepaid recharge offering full talk time benefit and service validity. After the introduction of Rs 20 talk time plan, Vodafone officials confirmed... Read More
Lately, all the telecom operators have made it very easy for the subscribers to carry out basic functions related to their SIM cards. At one point, simple things like checking talk time, data balance and plan expiration date used to be a tedious ordeal, but thanks to the self-care applications of these telecom operators, now we have don’t have to send SMS or dial-up codes to know about these things.... Read More
Unified Payments Interface, or simply known as UPI has been powering payment methods and gateways on a large number of applications lately. Starting from applications like PhonePe, Google Pay and BHIM, the NPCI-owned payment method has managed to amass heavy usage volume thanks to its easy transaction methods. As per a report, UPI witnessed close to 482.36 million transactions worth Rs 74,978.27 in October 2018 alone. That is a staggering number... Read More
Flipkart Group CEO and co-founder Binny Bansal today resigned following a probe into an alleged "serious personal misconduct", the firm's new parent Walmart said. Bansal, 37, has strongly denied the allegation, the American retail giant said in a statement. His decision to step down follows an independent investigation done on behalf of Flipkart and Walmart, even though the probe "did not find evidence to corroborate the complainant's assertions against Binny", it... Read More
The government and Reserve Bank of India are not considering to extend the deadline for local data storage (Data Localisation) by foreign payment companies. For the unaware, payments services firms are given a deadline of October 15 to set up the data locally, in order to avoid any issues in the future. The government would not relent under pressure from the global payment firms and the RBI is unlikely to... Read More
WhatsApp has finally met the norms set by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as it has set up a system in India that stores payments-related data within the country. To recall, the RBI has set a norm back in April 2018 that all the payment service providers should store the data locally, which has halted WhatsApp's wide rollout of payment services in the country. Today, the Facebook-owned confirmed that... Read More
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