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45. Payment System Indicators
Date : Sep 25, 2026
PART I - Payment System Indicators - Payment & Settlement System Statistics
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2025-26 2025 2026 FY 2025-26 2025 2026
Jul. Jun. Jul. Jul. Jun. Jul.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
A. Settlement Systems                
Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs)                
1. CCIL Operated Systems (1.1 to 1.3) 56.84 5.21 5.60 5.84 367014602 32781616 35295220 36265477
1.1 Govt. Securities Clearing (1.1.1 to 1.1.3) 20.08 1.63 2.03 2.23 214487317 19293299 19743616 20968267
1.1.1 Outright 11.76 0.84 1.31 1.44 17320069 1274228 1726964 1759884
1.1.2 Repo 5.62 0.55 0.46 0.50 93385356 8664018 7575558 8251953
1.1.3 Tri-party Repo 2.70 0.24 0.26 0.28 103781892 9355053 10441094 10956430
1.2 Forex Clearing 35.44 3.48 3.39 3.35 141483010 12739681 14283593 14024461
1.3 Rupee Derivatives @ 1.32 0.10 0.18 0.26 11044275 748636 1268011 1272748
B. Payment Systems                
I. Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) - - - - - - - -
1. Credit Transfers - RTGS (1.1 to 1.2) 3499.79 277.67 319.29 333.10 227372648 18863902 22984140 22307107
1.1 Customer Transactions 3485.43 276.46 318.14 331.95 206929117 16624624 21210783 20378017
1.2 Interbank Transactions 14.36 1.21 1.15 1.16 20443531 2239279 1773357 1929090
II. Retail                
2. Credit Transfers - Retail (2.1 to 2.6) 2618738.01 212335.07 243626.31 253061.29 91939186 7319321 8255460 8592159
2.1 AePS (Fund Transfers) @ 3.28 0.31 0.23 0.22 170 16 13 12
2.2 APBS $ 33854.21 2705.04 3151.62 2667.40 717040 42355 62653 54236
2.3 IMPS 49431.09 4821.90 3539.18 3643.39 7669929 631411 676543 711704
2.4 NACH Cr $ 18284.42 1628.20 1192.32 1196.70 1902293 143081 170436 177251
2.5 NEFT 100996.16 8500.14 8582.30 8970.05 50226505 3993960 4453677 4661076
2.6 UPI @ 2416168.86 194679.48 227160.66 236583.53 31423250 2508498 2892139 2987880
2.6.1 of which USSD @ 14.31 1.59 1.28 1.36 188 31 13 13
3. Debit Transfers and Direct Debits (3.1 to 3.3) 23471.34 1912.72 2094.13 2100.53 2697355 217899 260337 262336
3.1 BHIM Aadhaar Pay @ 231.96 19.95 32.30 24.42 7739 619 1079 778
3.2 NACH Dr $ 21614.19 1753.66 1912.95 1933.17 2687459 217102 259076 261381
3.3 NETC (linked to bank account) @ 1625.19 139.11 148.88 142.94 2157 179 182 177
4. Card Payments (4.1 to 4.2) 73039.76 5982.42 6783.52 7068.23 2807946 231987 236660 246118
4.1 Credit Cards (4.1.1 to 4.1.2) 60237.64 4861.81 5812.59 6052.67 2362471 193849 201362 208186
4.1.1 PoS based $ 30153.21 2432.75 2855.64 2937.34 885019 70380 74262 75740
4.1.2 Others $ 30084.43 2429.06 2956.95 3115.33 1477452 123469 127100 132445
4.2 Debit Cards (4.2.1 to 4.2.2) 12802.12 1120.61 970.93 1015.56 445475 38138 35299 37932
4.2.1 PoS based $ 9601.85 832.19 712.56 741.21 293537 23921 21692 22176
4.2.2 Others $ 3200.27 288.42 258.37 274.35 151938 14216 13607 15757
5. Prepaid Payment Instruments (5.1 to 5.2) 98699.47 7124.06 8887.79 9253.65 286429 20758 27495 28607
5.1 Wallets 78570.94 5431.45 6984.10 7147.86 223016 16915 20970 21889
5.2 Cards (5.2.1 to 5.2.2) 20128.53 1692.61 1903.69 2105.78 63414 3842 6525 6718
5.2.1 PoS based $ 8356.49 660.66 794.48 839.65 14373 908 1343 1247
5.2.2 Others $ 11772.04 1031.95 1109.21 1266.14 49041 2935 5182 5472
6. Paper-based Instruments (6.1 to 6.2) 5587.83 494.59 425.55 446.78 7147568 607504 607843 643873
6.1 CTS (NPCI Managed) 5587.83 494.59 425.55 446.78 7147568 607504 607843 643873
6.2 Others 0.00 – – – – – – –
Total - Retail Payments (2+3+4+5+6) 2819536.40 227848.86 261817.30 271930.47 104878484 8397469 9387796 9773093
Total Payments (1+2+3+4+5+6) 2823036.19 228126.54 262136.59 272263.58 332251133 27261371 32371936 32080199
Total Digital Payments (1+2+3+4+5) 2817448.36 227631.95 261711.04 271816.80 325103565 26653867 31764092 31436327

PART II - Payment Modes and Channels
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2025-26 2025 2026 FY 2025-26 2025 2026
Jul. Jun. Jul. Jul. Jun. Jul.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
A. Other Payment Channels                
1. Mobile Payments (mobile app based) (1.1 to 1.2) 2226710.88 180367.99 195230.02 204165.35 45558548 3658441 3913727 4068519
1.1 Intra-bank $ 122837.81 10205.69 10719.64 11190.58 7917883 634811 723073 752049
1.2 Inter-bank $ 2103873.07 170162.30 184510.38 192974.77 37640666 3023629 3190654 3316469
2. Internet Payments (Netbanking / Internet Browser Based) @ (2.1 to 2.2) 44541.07 3987.57 3182.59 3479.52 158930351 12803198 13165541 13107417
2.1 Intra-bank @ 10212.76 935.66 651.68 703.39 83681438 6734105 6035123 5969791
2.2 Inter-bank @ 34328.30 3051.90 2530.91 2776.13 75248914 6069093 7130418 7137626
B. ATMs                
3. Cash Withdrawal at ATMs $ (3.1 to 3.3) 53689.48 4472.41 4007.78 4076.24 2873737 232955 217595 220592
3.1 Using Credit Cards $ 81.07 6.63 6.30 6.53 4525 362 357 372
3.2 Using Debit Cards $ 53394.13 4447.66 3984.29 4052.01 2858626 231722 216359 219308
3.3 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 214.27 18.13 17.19 17.70 10586 871 880 912
4. Cash Withdrawal at PoS $ (4.1 to 4.2) 1.69 0.13 0.10 0.10 22 1 2 2
4.1 Using Debit Cards $ 1.39 0.11 0.07 0.06 18 1 1 1
4.2 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 0.30 0.02 0.03 0.04 4 0 0 0
5. Cash Withrawal at Micro ATMs @ 12126.36 996.95 928.19 965.01 322744 25574 24411 26170
5.1 AePS @ 12126.36 996.95 928.19 965.01 322744 25574 24411 26170

PART III - Payment Infrastructures (Lakh)
System As on March 2026 2025 2026
Jul. Jun. Jul.
1 2 3 4
Payment System Infrastructures        
1. Number of Cards (1.1 to 1.2) 11632.02 11245.35 11534.57 11561.69
1.1 Credit Cards 1186.34 1118.08 1215.91 1228.58
1.2 Debit Cards 10445.69 10127.27 10318.66 10333.11
2. Number of PPIs @ (2.1 to 2.2) 22992.54 13746.53 22460.84 22885.19
2.1 Wallets @ 18253.42 8870.16 17803.44 18103.14
2.2 Cards @ 4739.13 4876.37 4657.40 4782.05
3. Number of ATMs (3.1 to 3.2) 2.54 2.49 2.52 2.53
3.1 Bank owned ATMs $ 2.16 2.13 2.16 2.17
3.2 White Label ATMs $ 0.38 0.36 0.36 0.36
4. Number of Micro ATMs @ 13.90 14.67 13.37 13.28
5. Number of PoS Terminals 117.69 119.13 99.22 100.28
6. Bharat QR @ 56.33 66.41 52.66 52.69
7. UPI QR * 7612.17 6880.31 7925.74 8030.48
@ : New inclusion w.e.f. November 2019
# : Data reported by Co-operative Banks, LABs and RRBs included with effect from December 2021.
$ : Inclusion separately initiated from November 2019 - would have been part of other items hitherto.
* : New inclusion w.e.f. September 2020; Includes only static UPI QR Code
Note : 1. Data are provisional.
2. ECS (Debit and Credit) has been merged with NACH with effect from January 31, 2020.
3. The data from November 2019 onwards for card payments (Debit/Credit cards) and Prepaid Payment Instruments (PPIs) may not be comparable with earlier months/ periods, as more granular data is being published along with revision in data definitions.
4. Only domestic financial transactions are considered. The new format captures e-commerce transactions; transactions using FASTags, digital bill payments and card-to-card transfer through ATMs, etc.. Also, failed transactions, chargebacks, reversals, expired cards/ wallets, are excluded.
Part I-A. Settlement systems
1.1.3: Tri- party Repo under the securities segment has been operationalised from November 05, 2018.
Part I-B. Payments systems
4.1.2: ‘Others’ includes e-commerce transactions and digital bill payments through ATMs, etc.
4.2.2: ‘Others’ includes e-commerce transactions, card to card transfers and digital bill payments through ATMs, etc.
5. Available from December 2010.
5.1: includes purchase of goods and services and fund transfer through wallets.
5.2.2: includes usage of PPI Cards for online transactions and other transactions.
6.1: Pertain to three grids – Mumbai, New Delhi and Chennai.
6.2: ‘Others’ comprises of Non-MICR transactions which pertains to clearing houses managed by 21 banks.
Part II-A. Other payment channels
1: Mobile Payments –
o Include transactions done through mobile apps of banks and UPI apps.
o The data from July 2017 includes only individual payments and corporate payments initiated, processed, and authorised using mobile device. Other corporate payments which are not initiated, processed, and authorised using mobile device are excluded.
2: Internet Payments – includes only e-commerce transactions through ‘netbanking’ and any financial transaction using internet banking website of the bank.
Part II-B. ATMs
3.3 and 4.2: only relates to transactions using bank issued PPIs.
Part III. Payment systems infrastructure
3: Includes ATMs deployed by Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) and White Label ATM Operators (WLAOs). WLAs are included from April 2014 onwards.

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