News CCI Approves PayU’s $4.7 Bn Acquisition of BillDesk, India’s 2nd Largest ‘Internet Buyout’ CCI, India's antitrust regulator, approved PayU's acquisition of BillDesk for 4.7 billion, its fourth buyout in the Indian fintech space Aarathi GanesanSeptember 6, 2022
News Razorpay Temporarily Disables Alt News’ Account Post Delhi Police’s Allegations of FCRA Violations Payment gateway Razor Pay temporarily suspended, then restored dinations Alt News' following Mohammad Zubair's arrest Aarathi GanesanJuly 5, 2022
News RBI extends deadline for card storage rules to September 30 RBI extended the deadline for merchants and payment aggregators to delete customer debit and credit card data by three months. Sarvesh MathiJune 27, 2022
News Deep Dive: Why online debit and credit card transactions will start failing from July 1 Starting July 1, online merchants can't store credit and debit card details of customers. Here's how disruptive this is going to be. Sarvesh MathiJune 13, 2022
News UPI apps PhonePe, Google Pay may get more time to adhere to 30% share cap NPCI may extend the deadline for its mandate requiring UPI payment apps to hold no more than 30% market share. Sarvesh MathiJune 6, 2022
News Apple to stop accepting credit and debit cards in India Two new RBI regulations have resulted in this situation. Sarvesh MathiMay 19, 2022
News What’s new in RBI’s guidelines for credit cards and debit cards No unsolicited issuance of cards, recovery agents should not harass card holders, and card issuers should not share customer data without consent are some... Sarvesh MathiApril 25, 2022
News Why is NPCI limiting WhatsApp’s UPI userbase? WhatsApp is now allowed to onboard 100 million UPI users Sarvesh MathiApril 14, 2022
News Explainer: What are the implications of banning Russian banks from the SWIFT payment network? What does it mean to be excluded from SWIFT? Has this happened before? Did Russia see it coming? Here's what you need to know. Sarvesh MathiMarch 1, 2022
News Why the Joint Parliamentary Committee wants India to build an alternative to SWIFT payment network The network connects more than 11,000 banks in over 200 countries to process over 35 million transactions per day. Sarvesh MathiFebruary 2, 2022