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43. Payment System Indicators
Date : Nov 16, 2023
PART I - Payment System Indicators - Payment & Settlement System Statistics
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2022-23 2022 2023 FY 2022-23 2022 2023
Sep. Aug. Sep. Sep. Aug. Sep.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
A. Settlement Systems                
Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs)                
1 CCIL Operated Systems (1.1 to 1.3) 41.44 3.97 3.83 3.73 258797336 24321858 21796085 21104039
1.1 Govt. Securities Clearing (1.1.1 to 1.1.3) 15.00 1.51 1.46 1.52 172251292 16060463 14374901 13723954
1.1.1 Outright 7.99 0.86 0.82 0.93 10090700 1027326 1075273 1211320
1.1.2 Repo 4.07 0.36 0.44 0.41 68032487 6014630 6265271 5629136
1.1.3 Tri-party Repo 2.94 0.30 0.20 0.19 94128105 9018508 7034358 6883498
1.2 Forex Clearing 25.16 2.34 2.23 2.10 78932050 7499481 6636448 6811643
1.3 Rupee Derivatives @ 1.27 0.11 0.14 0.11 7613994 761914 784735 568441
B. Payment Systems                
I Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) - - - - - - - -
1 Credit Transfers - RTGS (1.1 to 1.2) 2425.62 198.30 218.08 213.94 149946286 13789637 13742007 14545183
1.1 Customer Transactions 2411.19 197.10 216.88 212.80 131667176 12094321 12202747 12960210
1.2 Interbank Transactions 14.43 1.20 1.20 1.13 18279111 1695316 1539260 1584974
II Retail                
2 Credit Transfers - Retail (2.1 to 2.6) 983620.84 79564.56 119823.49 119215.72 55009620 4621357 5374181 5340256
2.1 AePS (Fund Transfers) @ 5.90 0.55 0.34 0.31 356 32 22 21
2.2 APBS $ 17833.95 1170.40 1791.92 1818.74 247535 12805 20129 17943
2.3 IMPS 56532.64 4622.31 4891.65 4728.97 5585441 454451 514280 507497
2.4 NACH Cr $ 19257.19 1630.85 1627.49 1512.78 1541815 114718 128612 109472
2.5 NEFT 52847.43 4332.45 5651.92 5598.05 33719541 2922913 3134602 3126190
2.6 UPI @ 837143.73 67808.00 105860.16 105556.87 13914932 1116438 1576537 1579133
2.6.1 of which USSD @ 17.21 1.47 2.60 2.52 197 17 41 37
3 Debit Transfers and Direct Debits (3.1 to 3.3) 15343.05 1257.34 1522.83 1514.68 1289611 106118 135193 138748
3.1 BHIM Aadhaar Pay @ 214.22 16.35 13.96 13.87 6791 516 416 441
3.2 NACH Dr $ 13502.52 1114.09 1374.16 1371.81 1280219 105390 134543 138081
3.3 NETC (linked to bank account) @ 1626.31 126.90 134.72 129.00 2601 211 234 226
4 Card Payments (4.1 to 4.2) 63324.72 5352.43 4981.95 4578.77 2152245 183298 201292 189199
4.1 Credit Cards (4.1.1 to 4.1.2) 29145.24 2453.06 2905.78 2739.43 1432255 122094 148602 142320
4.1.1 PoS based $ 15598.46 1311.63 1520.79 1420.96 541932 44969 52961 49440
4.1.2 Others $ 13546.79 1141.43 1384.99 1318.47 890323 77125 95641 92879
4.2 Debit Cards (4.2.1 to 4.2.1 ) 34179.48 2899.38 2076.18 1839.34 719989 61204 52690 46880
4.2.1 PoS based $ 22904.86 1887.58 1495.96 1326.09 476520 38093 34615 30525
4.2.2 Others $ 11274.61 1011.80 580.22 513.26 243470 23111 18075 16355
5 Prepaid Payment Instruments (5.1 to 5.2) 74667.44 6048.61 6366.80 6143.16 287111 24090 23669 23668
5.1 Wallets 59112.76 4706.99 5041.90 4899.67 221896 17915 19987 19926
5.2 Cards (5.2.1 to 5.2.2) 15554.69 1341.62 1324.90 1243.49 65215 6175 3682 3742
5.2.1 PoS based $ 1013.09 79.41 742.19 721.81 14777 1172 862 852
5.2.2 Others $ 14541.60 1262.21 582.71 521.68 50438 5004 2820 2890
6 Paper-based Instruments (6.1 to 6.2) 7109.28 603.84 565.42 538.35 7172904 590573 593323 575021
6.1 CTS (NPCI Managed) 7109.28 603.84 565.42 538.35 7172904 590573 593323 575021
6.2 Others 0.00
Total - Retail Payments (2+3+4+5+6) 1144065.34 92826.78 133260.50 131990.68 65911490 5525435 6327659 6266892
Total Payments (1+2+3+4+5+6) 1146490.96 93025.08 133478.58 132204.62 215857776 19315072 20069666 20812075
Total Digital Payments (1+2+3+4+5) 1139381.68 92421.24 132913.16 131666.27 208684872 18724499 19476343 20237054

PART II - Payment Modes and Channels
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2022-23 2022 2023 FY 2022-23 2022 2023
Sep. Aug. Sep. Sep. Aug. Sep.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
A. Other Payment Channels                
1 Mobile Payments (mobile app based) (1.1 to 1.2) 805338.23 65660.55 101423.21 101214.61 22031628 1791834 2423257 2434721
1.1 Intra-bank $ 62306.61 5133.31 6553.02 6606.30 4191430 348494 439916 446014
1.2 Inter-bank $ 743031.61 60527.24 94870.20 94608.31 17840197 1443340 1983340 1988707
2 Internet Payments (Netbanking / Internet Browser Based) @ (2.1 to 2.2) 42630.64 3576.41 3790.98 3656.92 91539296 8423481 8295085 8219736
2.1 Intra-bank @ 10703.78 918.60 1033.68 991.70 53506133 4985305 4490488 4178539
2.2 Inter-bank @ 31926.86 2657.81 2757.30 2665.22 38033163 3438176 3804596 4041198
B. ATMs                
3 Cash Withdrawal at ATMs $ (3.1 to 3.3) 69468.87 5725.73 5723.39 5377.11 3305008 265243 273107 260496
3.1 Using Credit Cards $ 88.37 7.22 8.09 7.85 4296 351 383 380
3.2 Using Debit Cards $ 68975.18 5684.15 5685.19 5340.59 3286749 263765 271612 259054
3.3 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 405.32 34.36 30.12 28.67 13963 1127 1112 1062
4 Cash Withdrawal at PoS $ (4.1 to 4.2) 27.73 2.71 1.26 0.97 278 34 12 9
4.1 Using Debit Cards $ 27.41 2.67 1.25 0.96 276 34 12 9
4.2 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 0.33 0.04 0.01 0.01 2 0 0 0
5 Cash Withrawal at Micro ATMs @ 12375.16 1004.99 1055.42 991.43 333966 26097 27023 25477
5.1 AePS @ 12375.16 1004.99 1055.42 991.43 333966 26097 27023 25477

PART III - Payment Infrastructures (Lakh)
System As on March 2023 2022 2023
Sep. Aug. Sep.
1 2 3 4
Payment System Infrastructures        
1 Number of Cards (1.1 to 1.2) 10465.62 10162.40 10693.35 10598.05
1.1 Credit Cards 853.03 777.02 912.78 930.17
1.2 Debit Cards 9612.59 9385.38 9780.57 9667.88
2 Number of PPIs @ (2.1 to 2.2) 16185.22 15860.18 16625.74 16718.09
2.1 Wallets @ 13384.65 13106.33 13328.60 13437.06
2.2 Cards @ 2800.57 2753.84 3297.15 3281.03
3 Number of ATMs (3.1 to 3.2) 2.59 2.55 2.58 2.58
3.1 Bank owned ATMs $ 2.23 2.20 2.23 2.23
3.2 White Label ATMs $ 0.36 0.35 0.35 0.35
4 Number of Micro ATMs @ 16.11 12.43 15.29 14.87
5 Number of PoS Terminals 77.90 70.35 82.47 83.02
6 Bharat QR @ 53.82 48.64 58.99 59.82
7 UPI QR * 2563.77 2164.30 2881.64 2950.06
@: 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 is 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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