Payment Apps India

JioPhone Prima 2 has been unveiled in India. It is a feature phone from Jio which succeeds the JioPhone Prima 4G that was introduced in the country in November 2023. The second generation of JioPhone Prima retains some of the key features of the older handset but comes with a couple of improvements as well. It runs KaiOS 2.5.3 with support for U...

UPI Circle, the latest innovation in Unified Payments Interface (UPI) was rolled out by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) last week. The feature allows UPI users to enable trusted people by letting them have access to their accounts. This way, those even without a UPI account can make transactions with the payment instrument.

Apple, working to boost revenue globally from services including apps, payments and media, is set to offer free music and video streaming to many of Bharti Airtel's 281 million customers. Airtel will pay Apple a per-user fee "significantly" lower than the monthly $1.20 (roughly Rs. 100) charged each for Apple TV+ and Apple Music in India,

Google Pay, the Unified Prepaid Interface (UPI) payments app, announced new features at the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2024. The company said that these new features, which will be rolled out later this year, will make it easier for users to make payments and transact through the app. Some of the features announced at the GFF include UPI Circle, UPI...

Swiggy UPI was launched in India on Wednesday. The on-demand food delivery services platform has collaborated with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to roll out its UPI plug-in solution that aims to improve the payment experience by reducing the number of steps it takes to complete a transaction and making the whole process quicker.

A 42-year-old fisherman from Mumbai lost Rs 96,870 after he was tricked into logging his details into a digital payment app by fraudsters who posed as executives of an online streaming platform.

HMD has brought back the Nokia 3210 feature phone in India on Tuesday. The launch marks the 25th anniversary of the original unveiling of the phone. The new Nokia 3210 feature phone comes in three colour options and offers YouTube access. It packs a 1,450mAh battery, a 2-megapixel rear camera, and runs on Unisoc T107. The Nokia 3210 features a pre...

Initial public offerings of Walmart's Flipkart marketplace and PhonePe digital payments platform could take a couple of years, a Walmart executive said. Walmart may put an initial public offering of PhonePe ahead of Flipkart, even though Flipkart is a more mature business.

RBI (Reserve Bank of India) and NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL) are working on expanding UPI to 20 countries by 2028 or 2029, according to RBI's annual report. The central bank is in talks with central banks of various countries for entering into collaborative arrangements according to the Payments Vision Document 2025.

Digital payment frauds in India saw a 400 percent jump in the year ended March 2024, according to the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) annual report. Data from the central bank shows that the value of transactions on UPI jumped 137% in the past two years to 200 trillion rupees, while the rise in online transactions is also boosted by cheap access to t...

JioFinance was launched on Thursday in beta form by Jio Financial Services. The newly announced JioFinance platform offers a range of digital banking services, including UPI transactions, bill payments, and insurance advisory in a single app. Future updates will expand loan solutions, beginning with loans on mutual funds and gradually introducin...

The Delhi High Court today allowed payment app BharatPe's former Managing Director Ashneer Grover and his wife, facing charges in a cheating and forgery case, to travel abroad after furnishing a surety of Rs 80 crore each.

To make shopping easier and safer, Google on Wednesday introduced three new features to its payment app Google Pay.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked payment app BharatPe's former MD Ashneer Grover not to transfer or create any third-party rights in the shares transferred to him by the company's co-founder Bhavik Koladiya.

HealthGenie, a Delhi-based healthcare IT solutions provider, has allegedly exposed 4.5 lakh sensitive documents of patients that include clinical data and personal data like phone numbers, addresses and payment details, a report claimed on Friday.

JioPhone Prima 2 has been unveiled in India. It is a feature phone from Jio which succeeds the JioPhone Prima 4G that was introduced in the country in November 2023. The second generation of JioPhone Prima retains some of the key features of the older handset but comes with a couple of improvements as well. It runs KaiOS 2.5.3 with support for U...

UPI Circle, the latest innovation in Unified Payments Interface (UPI) was rolled out by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) last week. The feature allows UPI users to enable trusted people by letting them have access to their accounts. This way, those even without a UPI account can make transactions with the payment instrument.

Apple, working to boost revenue globally from services including apps, payments and media, is set to offer free music and video streaming to many of Bharti Airtel's 281 million customers. Airtel will pay Apple a per-user fee "significantly" lower than the monthly $1.20 (roughly Rs. 100) charged each for Apple TV+ and Apple Music in India,

Google Pay, the Unified Prepaid Interface (UPI) payments app, announced new features at the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2024. The company said that these new features, which will be rolled out later this year, will make it easier for users to make payments and transact through the app. Some of the features announced at the GFF include UPI Circle, UPI...

Swiggy UPI was launched in India on Wednesday. The on-demand food delivery services platform has collaborated with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to roll out its UPI plug-in solution that aims to improve the payment experience by reducing the number of steps it takes to complete a transaction and making the whole process quicker.

A 42-year-old fisherman from Mumbai lost Rs 96,870 after he was tricked into logging his details into a digital payment app by fraudsters who posed as executives of an online streaming platform.

HMD has brought back the Nokia 3210 feature phone in India on Tuesday. The launch marks the 25th anniversary of the original unveiling of the phone. The new Nokia 3210 feature phone comes in three colour options and offers YouTube access. It packs a 1,450mAh battery, a 2-megapixel rear camera, and runs on Unisoc T107. The Nokia 3210 features a pre...

Initial public offerings of Walmart's Flipkart marketplace and PhonePe digital payments platform could take a couple of years, a Walmart executive said. Walmart may put an initial public offering of PhonePe ahead of Flipkart, even though Flipkart is a more mature business.

RBI (Reserve Bank of India) and NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL) are working on expanding UPI to 20 countries by 2028 or 2029, according to RBI's annual report. The central bank is in talks with central banks of various countries for entering into collaborative arrangements according to the Payments Vision Document 2025.

Digital payment frauds in India saw a 400 percent jump in the year ended March 2024, according to the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) annual report. Data from the central bank shows that the value of transactions on UPI jumped 137% in the past two years to 200 trillion rupees, while the rise in online transactions is also boosted by cheap access to t...

JioFinance was launched on Thursday in beta form by Jio Financial Services. The newly announced JioFinance platform offers a range of digital banking services, including UPI transactions, bill payments, and insurance advisory in a single app. Future updates will expand loan solutions, beginning with loans on mutual funds and gradually introducin...

The Delhi High Court today allowed payment app BharatPe's former Managing Director Ashneer Grover and his wife, facing charges in a cheating and forgery case, to travel abroad after furnishing a surety of Rs 80 crore each.

To make shopping easier and safer, Google on Wednesday introduced three new features to its payment app Google Pay.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked payment app BharatPe's former MD Ashneer Grover not to transfer or create any third-party rights in the shares transferred to him by the company's co-founder Bhavik Koladiya.

HealthGenie, a Delhi-based healthcare IT solutions provider, has allegedly exposed 4.5 lakh sensitive documents of patients that include clinical data and personal data like phone numbers, addresses and payment details, a report claimed on Friday.