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43. Payment System Indicators
Date : Jan 18, 2024
PART I - Payment System Indicators - Payment & Settlement System Statistics
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2022-23 2022 2023 FY 2022-23 2022 2023
Nov. Oct. Nov. Nov. Oct. Nov.
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 3.67 3.31 3.08 258797336 22488758 21422005 21011085
1.1 Govt. Securities Clearing (1.1.1 to 1.1.3) 15.00 1.26 1.26 1.24 172251292 15457897 13902085 13568124
1.1.1 Outright 7.99 0.66 0.66 0.64 10090700 759097 889349 939382
1.1.2 Repo 4.07 0.36 0.40 0.41 68032487 6039868 5760793 5919154
1.1.3 Tri-party Repo 2.94 0.23 0.20 0.19 94128105 8658933 7251944 6709589
1.2 Forex Clearing 25.16 2.33 1.96 1.74 78932050 6577286 7018310 6922315
1.3 Rupee Derivatives @ 1.27 0.08 0.10 0.10 7613994 453575 501610 520645
B. Payment Systems                
I Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) - - - - - - - -
1 Credit Transfers - RTGS (1.1 to 1.2) 2425.62 206.46 224.62 219.20 149946286 12291749 13464400 13591443
1.1 Customer Transactions 2411.19 205.30 223.48 218.05 131667176 10691727 11899324 12078797
1.2 Interbank Transactions 14.43 1.16 1.14 1.15 18279111 1600022 1565076 1512645
II Retail                
2 Credit Transfers - Retail (2.1 to 2.6) 983620.84 84557.58 128356.32 128072.73 55009620 4527540 5667254 5673303
2.1 AePS (Fund Transfers) @ 5.90 0.51 0.31 0.30 356 29 20 19
2.2 APBS $ 17833.95 1065.62 1745.79 3221.01 247535 9460 19666 47635
2.3 IMPS 56532.64 4634.80 4928.80 4723.84 5585441 454679 538239 535002
2.4 NACH Cr $ 19257.19 1373.88 1278.99 1380.65 1541815 141901 131546 142415
2.5 NEFT 52847.43 4388.30 6314.53 6394.01 33719541 2730878 3262015 3208491
2.6 UPI @ 837143.73 73094.47 114087.90 112352.92 13914932 1190593 1715768 1739741
2.6.1 of which USSD @ 17.21 1.79 2.63 2.69 197 19 38 37
3 Debit Transfers and Direct Debits (3.1 to 3.3) 15343.05 1316.60 1499.66 1527.84 1289611 110181 139050 142456
3.1 BHIM Aadhaar Pay @ 214.22 14.52 15.14 18.82 6791 475 525 590
3.2 NACH Dr $ 13502.52 1164.17 1348.29 1376.66 1280219 109479 138287 141646
3.3 NETC (linked to bank account) @ 1626.31 137.91 136.23 132.36 2601 227 238 220
4 Card Payments (4.1 to 4.2) 63324.72 4956.02 5104.71 4742.56 2152245 170388 230670 210038
4.1 Credit Cards (4.1.1 to 4.1.2) 29145.24 2347.73 3200.48 2970.90 1432255 114794 178569 160644
4.1.1 PoS based $ 15598.46 1275.99 1596.74 1583.66 541932 43456 57774 59015
4.1.2 Others $ 13546.79 1071.74 1603.73 1387.24 890323 71338 120795 101629
4.2 Debit Cards (4.2.1 to 4.2.1 ) 34179.48 2608.28 1904.23 1771.66 719989 55594 52101 49394
4.2.1 PoS based $ 22904.86 1779.46 1375.28 1301.95 476520 37238 33731 34379
4.2.2 Others $ 11274.61 828.82 528.95 469.71 243470 18355 18370 15015
5 Prepaid Payment Instruments (5.1 to 5.2) 74667.44 6075.20 6687.84 6510.09 287111 22808 25012 24248
5.1 Wallets 59112.76 4730.07 5301.96 5274.31 221896 17342 20630 19830
5.2 Cards (5.2.1 to 5.2.2) 15554.69 1345.14 1385.88 1235.79 65215 5466 4382 4418
5.2.1 PoS based $ 1013.09 77.72 750.95 683.31 14777 1039 884 906
5.2.2 Others $ 14541.60 1267.42 634.93 552.47 50438 4428 3498 3512
6 Paper-based Instruments (6.1 to 6.2) 7109.28 592.55 559.90 525.55 7172904 585389 584454 558866
6.1 CTS (NPCI Managed) 7109.28 592.55 559.90 525.55 7172904 585389 584454 558866
6.2 Others 0.00
Total - Retail Payments (2+3+4+5+6) 1144065.34 97497.95 142208.43 141378.76 65911490 5416306 6646440 6608910
Total Payments (1+2+3+4+5+6) 1146490.96 97704.41 142433.05 141597.96 215857776 17708056 20110841 20200353
Total Digital Payments (1+2+3+4+5) 1139381.68 97111.86 141873.15 141072.41 208684872 17122666 19526387 19641487

PART II - Payment Modes and Channels
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2022-23 2022 2023 FY 2022-23 2022 2023
Nov. Oct. Nov. Nov. Oct. Nov.
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 70188.36 109334.05 108174.37 22031628 1874436 2619086 2641046
1.1 Intra-bank $ 62306.61 5342.59 6877.68 6927.98 4191430 355045 474253 478327
1.2 Inter-bank $ 743031.61 64845.77 102456.37 101246.39 17840197 1519391 2144833 2162720
2 Internet Payments (Netbanking / Internet Browser Based) @ (2.1 to 2.2) 42630.64 3486.07 3736.00 3622.58 91539296 7786127 8464802 8033440
2.1 Intra-bank @ 10703.78 870.33 983.50 988.62 53506133 4606598 4400612 4130936
2.2 Inter-bank @ 31926.86 2615.74 2752.51 2633.96 38033163 3179529 4064190 3902504
B. ATMs                
3 Cash Withdrawal at ATMs $ (3.1 to 3.3) 69468.87 5608.38 5721.32 5542.64 3305008 265636 277832 276530
3.1 Using Credit Cards $ 88.37 7.59 8.54 7.89 4296 367 413 391
3.2 Using Debit Cards $ 68975.18 5568.42 5683.38 5505.75 3286749 264180 276289 275032
3.3 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 405.32 32.36 29.40 28.99 13963 1089 1130 1107
4 Cash Withdrawal at PoS $ (4.1 to 4.2) 27.73 2.29 0.85 0.75 278 22 8 7
4.1 Using Debit Cards $ 27.41 2.26 0.84 0.75 276 22 8 7
4.2 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 0.33 0.02 0.01 0.01 2 0 0 0
5 Cash Withrawal at Micro ATMs @ 12375.16 944.92 986.49 1079.59 333966 25541 25378 28972
5.1 AePS @ 12375.16 944.92 986.49 1079.59 333966 25541 25378 28972

PART III - Payment Infrastructures (Lakh)
System As on March 2023 2022 2023
Nov. Oct. Nov.
1 2 3 4
Payment System Infrastructures        
1 Number of Cards (1.1 to 1.2) 10465.62 10283.35 10748.82 10751.32
1.1 Credit Cards 853.03 806.06 947.11 960.01
1.2 Debit Cards 9612.59 9477.29 9801.71 9791.30
2 Number of PPIs @ (2.1 to 2.2) 16185.22 16098.32 16830.82 16944.42
2.1 Wallets @ 13384.65 13269.83 13576.88 13693.59
2.2 Cards @ 2800.57 2828.48 3253.93 3250.83
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 2.24
3.2 White Label ATMs $ 0.36 0.36 0.35 0.34
4 Number of Micro ATMs @ 16.11 13.34 15.30 15.87
5 Number of PoS Terminals 77.90 73.52 83.48 84.32
6 Bharat QR @ 53.82 48.25 59.75 58.74
7 UPI QR * 2563.77 2302.87 3017.20 3087.39
@: 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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