The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on Wednesday announced to raise the transaction limits of UPI 123 and UPI Lite, thus expanding the scope of UPI for an increasingly large number of people. While acknowledging that Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has transformed India’s financial landscape by making digital payments more inclusive, the … Read more
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das announced Thursday that the central bank will create a public repository of digital lending apps (DLAs) deployed by regulated entities, i.e., banks and other financial institutions. This means any digital lending app deployed by a bank or non-banking financial corporation (NBFC) must be part of the repository. … Read more
This is believed to be either the last or perhaps second last meeting before the interest rates are eventually slashed after a long hiatus. A Reuters poll predicted that the RBI is expected to cut rates in the Sept quarter. Notably, the banking regulator had raised the repo rates by a cumulative of 250 basis points … Read more