India

Fintech & Ecommerce

Razorpay and NPCI International Partner to Bring India’s UPI Payments to Malaysia

Indian travellers can now pay in Malaysia just as easily as they do back home, as Razorpay and NPCI International have joined forces to bring India’s UPI payment system to Malaysian merchants

Fintech & Ecommerce

How Razorpay ACS Enables OTP-Free Biometric Authentication for Online Card Payments in India

Razorpay, in partnership with Yes Bank, has recently launched a biometric-card-authentication system for online card payments, so that instead of entering a PIN/OTP, you can authenticate e-commerce purchases via fingerprint or face ID.

Blockchain & Crypto

Coinbase Investment Takes CoinDCX Valuation to $2,45B

Coinbase expresses its ongoing commitment to the Indian market by placing additional funding into local crypto exchange CoinCDX, which it has supported since 2020.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Unlimit Secures Dual Token Service Provider Certification from Mastercard and Visa in India

The new certification from both major payment networks in India strengthens Unlimit’s role in the nation’s expanding digital payments market.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Amazon Bets on Family Payments and Wearables with UPI Circle to Deepen Its Fintech Footprint in India

Amazon Pay has introduced the UPI Circle feature, enabling its 100 million UPI user base in India to share payments. Here’s how it could help the tech giant to capture a larger market share in one of the world’s fastest-growing fintech ecosystems.

News

PhonePe SmartPOD: What Is It and How It Makes Checkout Frictionless?

PhonePe’s new SmartPOD bridges the gap between UPI and card payments, powering India’s next wave of digital commerce.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Biometric Payments Guide: How Fingerprints and Face Recognition Are Changing How We Transact

It is predicted that, as soon as 2030, every one in four people globally will be using biometric tech to secure payments, while digital identity verification will pass traditional identity verification in volume. Why are biometric payments so popular, and why has their adoption accelerated in recent years? This article sheds light on everything you […]

Fintech & Ecommerce

Revolut Targets 20M Users by 2030 as It Enters Indian Market With Payment and Forex Products

Revolut expands into India with ambitious growth plans, ready to invest over $670 million in this prospective market over five years.

Fintech & Ecommerce

India Launches AI-Powered UPI Commerce Payments on ChatGPT, Expanding Agentic Payments to Leading AI Platforms

With a new multilateral pilot AI payment project, ChatGPT users in India are now able to discover products and complete purchases using India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) directly within the ChatGPT experience. Gemini and Claude are next in line for agentic payment testing.

News

dLocal and XanderPay Join Efforts to Streamline Cross-Border Payments for Hospitality Sectors Across Africa, Asia, and Latin America

As partners, dLocal and XanderPay aim to facilitate cross-border payments for hotels and online travel agencies (OTAs) in various markets of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

News

Global Payments Revenue to Reach $2.4T by 2029

Although annual revenue growth is expected to slow from 8.8% to 4.0% within the next five years, global payments revenue is still forecast to increase to $2.4 trillion by 2029, as agentic AI, digital currencies, and fintech business models boost the growth.

Articles

Bridging the Instant Payment Divide: How FedNow Could Emulate UPI and Pix

While FedNow is a rapidly expanding instant payment network in the U.S., we cannot help but wonder how this growth compares to the real-time transactions behemoths like Indian UPI and Brazilian Pix. 

Fintech & Ecommerce

India’s PayNearby Targets IPO in 2026 to Fuel Financial Inclusion Services Growth

PayNearby, built on a network of 1.2M neighborhood retailers driving financial inclusion, is gearing up for a 2026 IPO as India’s fintech market reaches new heights.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Thunes & Ontop Enable Instant Global Payouts for Freelancers and Remote Teams

Freelancers and employees working in remote settings will benefit from the new real-time payment infrastructure brought by Thunes and Ontop.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Processing Power of Global Payment Networks

As India’s UPI has surpassed the industry giant, Visa, with over 650 million daily transactions, we prepared a brief illustration of the global payment networks’ processing volumes and values. Can real-time payments beat the cards?

Fintech & Ecommerce

Visa Dethroned: UPI Becomes World’s Most Used Payment System

India’s UPI has gone from a domestic game-changer to the world’s leading real-time payment system in less than a decade of its existence, surpassing the industry giant – Visa – with over 650 million daily transactions.