June 17th, 2025 7:44 AM 0 COMMENTS

TRAI Launches Pilot Project to Digitally Verify Consumer Consent for Commercial Communications

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has launched a pilot project aimed at digitally verifying consumer consent for commercial calls and messages, in a move to curb unsolicited commercial communications and enhance consumer protection. The initiative, launched in collaboration with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), involves select banks and telecom service providers (TSPs) and marks the beginning of a national rollout of a secure digital consent framework. Also... Read More

December 18th, 2022 2:47 PM 11 COMMENTS

UPI Money Sent to Wrong Person, Here’s How to Get it Back

The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and other digital payment systems have totally changed how we do transactions. UPI has become widely used in India by everyone, from street vendors to large retail chains. They have eliminated the need to use cash in most cases by enabling a user to instantly scan a QR code and transfer the right amount immediately to a bank account. Even though UPI is a secure... Read More

December 16th, 2022 5:47 PM 2 COMMENTS

UPI vs Digital Rupee: How both are Different

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) just chose a limited user group digital rupee retail test. Citizens would be able to send and receive payments in cash entirely digitally through a mobile app by using the token-based digital rupee. However, digital transactions already make use of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). On December 1, 2022, the digital currency's pilot programme became live, covering Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, and Bhubaneswar, as... Read More

March 8th, 2022 1:56 PM 0 COMMENTS

UPI Services Arrive for Feature Phone Users as Well

On March 8, 2022, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced Unified Payments Interface (UPI) services for features phone users as well. Until now, UPI payments were only being accessed by smartphone users. To facilitate the payments system for feature phone users, RBI has launched UPI123Pay. Along with this, RBI launched DigiSaathi, a 24x7 helpline for making digital payments. What Can UPI123Pay... Read More

December 13th, 2021 5:27 PM 0 COMMENTS

UPI Payments Will Soon be Available on Feature Phones

As per the recent development of events, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its latest move, has announced that feature phone users will very soon be able to make UPI payments. The announcement came earlier this week and was made by the RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das stating that digital payments will be allowed for feature payments. In the announcement, it was also stated that the transaction limit on UPI... Read More

May 20th, 2021 8:10 PM 0 COMMENTS

PhonePe, Paytm and Google Pay Will Become Interoperable Soon

Mobile wallets have brought a new revolution to India, be it Paytm, PhonePe, Google Pay or Mobikwik; all of them have been key in reducing the dependency on physical cash, reducing the need to carry a lot of cash. It seems that the ability to transfer cash to one's digital wallet is about to become much easier after an announcement from the RBI. As per the Reserve Bank of India... Read More

May 15th, 2021 3:19 PM 9 COMMENTS

Amazon One-Month Prime Membership Discontinued in Adherence to RBI Norms

Amazon’s Prime membership has been one of the most useful subscription services available in India, providing access to a music streaming app, an entertainment application and giving benefits to the Amazon shopping application. Most, if not all of our readers, are probably using Amazon’s application for one need or the other, be it Prime Video for content consumption or just the Amazon application to purchase goods. The subscription plan has... Read More

January 29th, 2021 5:41 PM 0 COMMENTS

UPI Transactions Became a Hit in India Amid Pandemic

Unified Payments Interface (UPI) system became a very essential part of most peoples lives during 2020. As the economy pushed towards being cashless to support social distancing, the role of UPI apps grew multiple-fold. Things such as paying bills to purchasing subscriptions, people relied on UPI apps for completing the transactions. As per a PTI report, President Ram Nath Kovind said that in the last month of 2020, Indians transacted... Read More

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