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India's Unified Payments Interface, a real-time payment system enabling instant bank-to-bank transfers via mobile apps, operated by NPCI.
NPCI circular OC-238 recognises silent mobile verification for UPI device binding, but providers must pair it with SMS, Bureau says. Since SMS stays in the flow, we think the option adds a per-registration lookup to provider costs and retires none.
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Apple Pay launched in India on Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cards only, with Apple reportedly seeking a fee of about 20 basis points per transaction. How far it spreads now depends on bank negotiations and on acquirers enabling terminals one at a time.
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Apple Pay went live in India on 30 September, and at launch the only cards users can add are Axis Bank's Visa and Mastercard credit cards. Until another bank signs up, every Apple Pay purchase in the country runs on an Axis credit card, whatever the merchant or processor.
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Google is testing Flipkart purchases inside Gemini in India, six months after its shopping tools there still sent buyers to outside sites to pay. Flipkart stays seller of record, so Google gains the screen where shoppers choose while the sale remains Flipkart's.
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The $100m cheque is Navi's first institutional money and lands roughly 35% below the $2bn Sachin Bansal sought in 2024. It also sets a visible comparable ahead of an IPO refiling.
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NPCI's new merchant discount rate caps at Rs 300 above Rs 75,000, exempts UPI AutoPay and charges fuel and utilities a flat Rs 5. Checkout cost in India now depends on category and funding instrument as much as on ticket size.
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NPCI has put a price on India's larger UPI merchant payments from October 15, and by the Finance Ministry's own estimate the 0.4% charge touches only 4% of merchant transactions. Person-to-person transfers stay free.
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Reuters reports Apple Pay will arrive next month on Axis Bank credit cards, with the two larger issuers still unsigned. The Economic Times reported Apple asked for 15 to 20 basis points a transaction and banks countered at about 10.
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PhonePe's 11.19 billion August transactions and Google Pay's 7.91 billion still dominate UPI, but Navi supplied about a sixth of the month's new payments, and October's 0.4% merchant fee will pay by ticket size.
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A dev.to roundup reads three agent papers around one design question: what a pending action still depends on at the moment it fires. The strongest number in it is 68 percent, and it belongs to somebody else's corruption test.
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FATF's new typology finds hawala operators running as scalable digital businesses, and the practical consequence lands on the licensed banks, fintechs and exchanges whose rails they enter and leave through.
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The author of an Indian outage tracker lists five ways the standard fetch-and-check-200 probe misleads, then rebuilds the verdict as four states with crowd reports weighted above the server check. The cold start on that crowd signal is the catch.
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