Yet barely half of them have active loans and only up to 10% have a credit card.
That’s why the regulator is allowing the use of RuPay credit cards, the country’s low-cost answer to Mastercard (MA.N) and Visa (V.N), for UPI payments.
Earlier, in June 2022, the central bank had allowed lenders to link RuPay credit cards to UPI accounts.
HDFC Bank became the first private bank to go live on UPI with RuPay credit cards in February.
Paytm tied up with SBI Cards and Payment Services in May to issue RuPay credit cards to its consumers via UPI, offering cashbacks on small-value payments.
Persons:
It’s, Paytm, –, Bernstein, Una Galani, Pranav Kiran, Thomas Shum
Organizations:
Reuters, UPI, Google, Reuters Graphics Reuters, Mastercard, Visa, Merchants, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Punjab National Bank, One97 Communications, Reserve Bank, Tiger, Uni, “, Reserve Bank of India, SBI Cards, Services, Thomson
Locations:
MUMBAI, India, Punjab