Upi news and trends

Google Expands Payments Partnership With India’s UPI
Google // September 02, 2024

Google Pay has introduced several new offerings via India’s United Payments Interface (UPI). The tech giant announced the new features on its blog last week at the conclusion of the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, saying they would help “bring ease, convenience and simplicity to...

Flipkart Launches UPI Payment App Offering Cashback Rewards
Loyalty & Rewards // June 26, 2024

Walmart-owned Indian eCommerce firm Flipkart has launched a Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payment app that offers up to 5% cashback on purchases. The new super.money app is available on the Google Play store. “Unlike other UPI apps, we’ll never offer you useless coupons, scratch cards or coins,”...

Walmart Says PhonePe and Flipkart IPOs Years Away
Walmart // June 09, 2024

Walmart’s India-based eCommerce marketplace and payments company aren’t quite ready to go public. “This is something we’re looking at over the next couple of years,” Walmart’s executive vice president for corporate affairs, Dan Bartlett, told Reuters last week in reference to the company’s marketplace Flipkart...

Paytm Continues to Lose Digital Payments Ground to Google and Walmart
Digital Payments // June 06, 2024

India-based Paytm’s share of the country’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) continues to slip. The FinTech made up 8.1% of total UPI transactions last month, down from 13% in January, the National Payments Corporation of India said in data released Thursday (June 6). Paytm accounted for...

Interviews & Exclusives
Low-Code ‘Legos’ Help Indian Firms Scale Cross-Border Payments

July 25, 2022
In the push to be part of global commerce, businesses face a range of complexities. As companies seek to have a range of collection and payment options on hand beyond simply accepting cards, they must strive to offer localized choices. It’s no easy task — merchants and all manner of enterprises must navigate compliance hurdles and […]

Google’s Big Mobile Moves In India

July 13, 2017
Over the last 18 months, India has moved full-speed ahead from a nearly entirely cash-based society to one with ambitions of being totally cashless. The most public — and most famous...

Quick Reads
Trinidad and Tobago Partners With UPI Developer NPCI to Develop Digital Payment Platform

September 27, 2024
Trinidad and Tobago is working with a subsidiary of NPCI, the developer of India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), to implement a similar solution in the Caribbean nation. NPCI International Payments Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of NPCI that’s devoted to the deployment of UPI outside of India, entered into a strategic partnership with the Ministry of Digital Transformation […]

Google Expands Payments Partnership With India’s UPI

September 02, 2024
Google Pay has introduced several new offerings via India’s United Payments Interface (UPI). The tech giant announced the new features on its blog last week at the conclusion of the...

Flipkart Launches UPI Payment App Offering Cashback Rewards

June 26, 2024
Walmart-owned Indian eCommerce firm Flipkart has launched a Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payment app that offers up to 5% cashback on purchases. The new super.money app is available on the Google Play...

Walmart Says PhonePe and Flipkart IPOs Years Away

June 09, 2024
Walmart’s India-based eCommerce marketplace and payments company aren’t quite ready to go public. “This is something we’re looking at over the next couple of years,” Walmart’s executive vice president for...