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284 news stories about India


What's New in Payments

SBI to let merchants accept contactless payments on standard Android NFC phones

By Tom Phillips • 24 February 2021 • Updated 24 February 2021 • nfcw.com
SBI State Bank of India logo

Merchants across India will soon be able to accept contactless digital payments on their Android NFC smartphone without needing any additional hardware. State Bank of India (SBI) is making the software-only solution available through a new SBI Merchant app. More


Transit Ticketing Today

Delhi Metro to roll out mobile and contactless ticketing across entire network

By Tom Phillips • 15 February 2021 • Updated 15 February 2021 • nfcw.com
Delhi Metro train which will soon have mobile and contactless ticketing

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is to implement an upgraded contactless ticketing system across its entire network, enabling passengers to pay for their journeys via QR, an EMV bank card or a RuPay-enabled National Common Mobility Card (NCMC)... More


What's New in Payments

Flipkart lets customers use reward points for in-store payments

By Tom Phillips • 28 January 2021 • Updated 28 January 2021 • nfcw.com
Flipkart SuperCoin reward points on smartphone

Customers of Indian ecommerce giant Flipkart can now use SuperCoin reward points earned by shopping on the platform to make in-store purchases at retail outlets across the country by scanning a QR code at participating merchants... More


What's New in Payments

One in three Indian households now use digital payments

By Tom Phillips • 21 January 2021 • Updated 21 January 2021 • nfcw.com
Digital payments adoption in India 2020 report cover

A third of Indian households across a range of income groups now use digital payment methods, but “this can easily go up to 50% given high desire to use,” research from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and People Research on India’s Consumer Economy (PRICE) reveals... More


What's New in Payments

Samsung cuts US support for MST transactions on new Galaxy phones

By Tom Phillips • 15 January 2021 • Updated 15 January 2021 • nfcw.com
Samsung Galaxy S21 smartphone

Owners of Samsung’s new Galaxy S21 smartphones in the USA will not be able to make payments using Samsung Pay’s magnetic secure transmission (MST) technology... More


What's New in Payments

Google Pay lets users in India get personal insights into their 2020 spending

By Tom Phillips • 6 January 2021 • Updated 6 January 2021 • nfcw.com
Google Pay 2020 spending data view screenshot

Google Pay users in India can now access personalised information about their spending habits in 2020 using a new feature integrated into the payment service’s app... More


What's New in Payments

NPCI lets Indian merchants accept RuPay domestic card payments on standard NFC phones

By Tom Phillips • 4 January 2021 • Updated 4 January 2021 • nfcw.com
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) logo

Merchants in India can now use a standard NFC mobile phone to accept contactless RuPay domestic card payments valued at up to 5,000 rupees (US$68)... More


NFC World

Indian water authority uses NFC flowmeters to optimise supply and ease water shortages

By Tom Phillips • 10 December 2020 • Updated 10 December 2020 • nfcw.com
ABA AquaMaster 4 NFC flowmeter

The local water authority in the Koppal district of the Indian state of Karnataka is to install a digital water management system that uses NFC-enabled digital flowmeters to let users collect, view and securely transmit accurate waterflow data via an app on their smartphone or tablet... More


What's New in Payments

India increases contactless limit by 150%

By Tom Phillips • 8 December 2020 • Updated 8 December 2020 • nfcw.com
Reserve Bank of India seal

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is to raise the limit for contactless card transactions from Rs2,000 (US$27) to Rs5,000 ($67.67) from 1 January 2021, an increase of 150%... More


What's New in Payments

SBI Card integrates NFC payments into mobile app

By Tom Phillips • 1 December 2020 • Updated 1 December 2020 • nfcw.com
SBI Card logo

SBI Card Mastercard holders in India can now make NFC payments at any contactless point-of-sale terminal from their mobile device after registering their credit card on the latest version of the payment service’s app... More


What's New in Payments

RBR: 100m merchants worldwide to accept card payments by end 2025

By Tom Phillips • 18 November 2020 • Updated 18 November 2020 • nfcw.com
RBR graph showing number of merchant outlets by scheme 2019

The number of outlets worldwide accepting card payments will reach nearly 100m by the end of 2025, an increase driven by government initiatives to promote cashless payments and by an acceleration in the move to contactless payments during the Covid-19 pandemic, research from RBR predicts... More


What's New in Payments

Google Pay drives user engagement with Go India travel game

By Tom Phillips • 4 November 2020 • Updated 4 November 2020 • nfcw.com
Google Pay Play India mobile payments rewards game infographic

Google Pay users in India can now earn rewards by taking part in a digital travel game and collecting ‘tickets’ for a virtual journey around the country every time they use the mobile payments service on either their Android or iOS device... More


What's New in Payments

Digital wallet user base to increase to 4bn by 2024

By Tom Phillips • 9 October 2020 • Updated 9 October 2020 • nfcw.com
World Payments Report 2020 graph showing growth in mobile payments

The number of digital wallet users globally will increase from 2.3bn in 2019 to 4bn in 2024 and global non-cash transactions will grow to nearly 1.1tn in 2023 from 708.5bn in 2019, according to the World Payments Report 2020... More


What's New in Payments

Google Pay rolls out tokenized NFC card payments in India

By Tom Phillips • 25 September 2020 • Updated 25 September 2020 • nfcw.com
Google Pay India NFC tokenized payments on a smartphone screens

Google Pay users in India can now make tokenized NFC-based credit and debit card payments at contactless POS terminals, starting with customers of Axis Bank and SBI “with Kotak and more banks expected to follow suit very soon”... More


Transit Ticketing Today

Delhi Transport Corporation trials contactless bus ticketing

By Tom Phillips • 18 September 2020 • Updated 18 September 2020 • nfcw.com
Delhi Transport Corporation Chartr e-ticketing app

Passengers travelling on Delhi Transport Corporation buses are piloting a contactless e-ticketing service that enables them to pay their fare via a mobile app by scanning a QR code on the bus... More


What's New in Payments

Titan and SBI pick Tappy wearable payments technology for India’s first contactless payment watches

By Sarah Clark • 16 September 2020 • Updated 16 September 2020 • nfcw.com

PARTNER NEWS: Watch brand Titan has partnered with State Bank of India (SBI) for the launch of a range of watches that makes use of Canada-based Tappy Tech’s wearable payments technology to let consumers make contactless transactions at POS terminals across India... More


What's New in Payments

Visa survey finds wide support for tap-to-phone payments

By Tom Phillips • 15 September 2020 • Updated 15 September 2020 • nfcw.com
Visa Tap to Phone shoppers in Asia

More than half of consumers in the Asia Pacific region would make contactless tap-to-phone NFC payments directly to a merchant’s mobile phone at the checkout “despite solutions not yet being widely available in the region”, according to research released by Visa. More


What's New in Payments

NPCI creates new company to take India’s UPI and RuPay global

By Tom Phillips • 3 September 2020 • Updated 3 September 2020 • nfcw.com
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) logo

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has announced the launch of subsidiary firm NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL) with the aim of exporting its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) real-time mobile payments service and RuPay domestic payment card scheme to global markets... More


What's New in Payments

Google Pay tests NFC card payments in India

By Tom Phillips • 2 September 2020 • Updated 2 September 2020 • nfcw.com
Google Pay logo with NFC smartphone

Google Pay has begun testing tokenized NFC-based credit and debit card payments in India, enabling users of supported cards to add them to their payment options for NFC, QR and online payments... More


What's New in Payments

Reliance Jio pilots NFC and QR payments in India

By Tom Phillips • 25 August 2020 • Updated 25 August 2020 • nfcw.com
Relaince Jo India logo

Indian telecommunications giant Reliance Jio has begun piloting Jio Pay, a new UPI-enabled payments service which includes support for both NFC and QR mobile payments... More


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