Pickup your mobile phone and dial *99# . What you see next represents the ingenuity of the Indian payments industry. India is a nation where people at the extreme ends of the spectrum co-exist. The richest to the poorest. The highly tech savvy to the least technologically aware or inclined. Therefore, when we rollout a scheme, a solution or a…
If you have bought an insurance policy for yourself or your family, you need to make periodic payments to your insurer of what is called ‘premium’. Same is the case if you buy any goods such as heavy electronics appliances on an EMI basis. It would be highly inconvenient to have to manually keep a track of such different payment…
It was until very recently, that handling payments was exclusively handled by financial institutions such as banks. Today, that no longer remains the case. Payment management is one of the areas which the proliferation of technology has had the greatest impact on. The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) created by the National Payments Corporation of India has enabled even road-side hawkerslargest…
The Clearing House, recently launched Real Time Payments in the USA. The banking community has been bullish about the new development. Last month, US Bank Corp and BNY Mellon performed a limited demonstration of RTP capability by transferring money across accounts within a matter of a second. PNC Bank has just announced the launch of Real Time Payment services. Three…
There is a crucial need for widespread Fintech adoption. Payments have increasingly gone digital in recent years in order to address the burgeoning need for a seamless customer experience. Fintech companies have taken advantage of the strong banking and payments infrastructure in India to introduce a plethora of innovative products and services. Banks have increasingly adopted these new age solutions…