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45. Payment System Indicators
Date : Jan 21, 2026
PART I - Payment System Indicators - Payment & Settlement System Statistics
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2024-25 2024 2025 FY 2024-25 2024 2025
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) 47.40 2.61 4.25 4.08 296218030 20592498 30434601 28209256
1.1 Govt. Securities Clearing (1.1.1 to 1.1.3) 17.87 1.10 1.63 1.53 185733719 13954925 18365111 17161813
1.1.1 Outright 10.56 0.54 0.95 0.88 16056018 847485 1439939 1226375
1.1.2 Repo 4.72 0.35 0.46 0.44 77286611 5366007 8365990 7838569
1.1.3 Tri-party Repo 2.58 0.20 0.23 0.21 92391091 7741434 8559182 8096869
1.2 Forex Clearing 28.06 1.40 2.51 2.46 100639565 5972544 11161871 10100567
1.3 Rupee Derivatives @ 1.46 0.11 0.11 0.08 9844746 665029 907620 946876
B. Payment Systems                
I Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) - - - - - - - -
1 Credit Transfers - RTGS (1.1 to 1.2) 3024.55 240.29 296.76 284.89 201387682 14826882 18732702 16881605
1.1 Customer Transactions 3010.32 239.16 295.56 283.75 181153129 13504833 17108666 15505696
1.2 Interbank Transactions 14.23 1.12 1.20 1.14 20234553 1322050 1624036 1375908
II Retail                
2 Credit Transfers - Retail (2.1 to 2.6) 2061014.91 170358.50 224318.23 221600.52 79881976 6274182 7851867 7313610
2.1 AePS (Fund Transfers) @ 3.64 0.30 0.27 0.26 190 14 12 11
2.2 APBS $ 32964.43 2250.97 2745.64 3375.31 554034 32384 43353 69483
2.3 IMPS 56249.68 4079.18 4035.88 3689.31 7139110 558328 641964 615177
2.4 NACH Cr $ 16938.86 1438.33 1736.26 1690.81 1670223 147385 165141 163208
2.5 NEFT 96198.05 7769.51 8790.97 8175.04 44461464 3380884 4273608 3834099
2.6 UPI @ 1858660.25 154820.21 207009.21 204669.79 26056955 2155187 2727791 2631633
2.6.1 of which USSD @ 17.24 1.56 1.14 0.56 185 16 13 7
3 Debit Transfers and Direct Debits (3.1 to 3.3) 21659.95 1894.74 1964.66 1987.04 2208583 185643 223881 226304
3.1 BHIM Aadhaar Pay @ 230.08 19.29 20.58 19.28 6907 629 661 609
3.2 NACH Dr $ 19762.28 1732.94 1812.26 1835.73 2199327 184814 223048 225517
3.3 NETC (linked to bank account) @ 1667.59 142.51 131.82 132.03 2349 200 172 178
4 Card Payments (4.1 to 4.2) 63861.15 5167.93 6279.14 6041.95 2605110 208308 256373 222942
4.1 Credit Cards (4.1.1 to 4.1.2) 47740.76 3936.04 5182.90 5029.84 2109197 169298 214230 188799
4.1.1 PoS based $ 24571.10 2036.02 2609.42 2538.40 795022 68233 88357 75640
4.1.2 Others $ 23169.66 1900.02 2573.48 2491.45 1314175 101065 125873 113159
4.2 Debit Cards (4.2.1 to 4.2.1 ) 16120.39 1231.89 1096.25 1012.11 495914 39010 42143 34143
4.2.1 PoS based $ 11980.32 916.24 828.79 763.31 332556 26677 29104 22754
4.2.2 Others $ 4140.06 315.65 267.46 248.80 163358 12333 13039 11389
5 Prepaid Payment Instruments (5.1 to 5.2) 70254.08 5847.81 8939.26 8973.35 216751 19214 24227 24639
5.1 Wallets 52898.40 4462.09 7281.56 7347.33 154066 13130 18515 19265
5.2 Cards (5.2.1 to 5.2.2) 17355.68 1385.72 1657.70 1626.02 62686 6083 5712 5374
5.2.1 PoS based $ 8240.14 663.27 649.16 682.35 11512 915 1274 1365
5.2.2 Others $ 9115.54 722.45 1008.54 943.66 51174 5168 4437 4010
6 Paper-based Instruments (6.1 to 6.2) 6095.38 472.48 452.12 448.60 7113350 537849 574554 570251
6.1 CTS (NPCI Managed) 6095.38 472.48 452.12 448.60 7113350 537849 574554 570251
6.2 Others 0.00
Total - Retail Payments (2+3+4+5+6) 2222885.46 183741.46 241953.42 239051.46 92025771 7225196 8930903 8357746
Total Payments (1+2+3+4+5+6) 2225910.01 183981.74 242250.18 239336.34 293413453 22052079 27663605 25239350
Total Digital Payments (1+2+3+4+5) 2219814.63 183509.26 241798.06 238887.74 286300103 21514230 27089051 24669100

PART II - Payment Modes and Channels
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2024-25 2024 2025 FY 2024-25 2024 2025
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) 1756976.91 144940.69 190010.12 187787.15 39206221 3215536 3908175 3769435
1.1 Intra-bank $ 110801.96 8518.57 10880.39 10306.94 7207439 598559 685229 637713
1.2 Inter-bank $ 1646174.95 136422.12 179129.73 177480.21 31998782 2616978 3222946 3131722
2 Internet Payments (Netbanking / Internet Browser Based) @ (2.1 to 2.2) 47478.09 3659.77 3803.42 3527.10 131858133 9925228 13199799 11864143
2.1 Intra-bank @ 13056.37 1025.12 872.08 809.63 69086996 5097948 6840494 6241771
2.2 Inter-bank @ 34421.72 2634.64 2931.34 2717.48 62771136 4827279 6359305 5622372
B. ATMs                
3 Cash Withdrawal at ATMs $ (3.1 to 3.3) 60308.11 4760.71 4661.98 4404.78 3063077 241717 251643 235313
3.1 Using Credit Cards $ 97.25 7.75 7.12 6.72 5084 410 404 378
3.2 Using Debit Cards $ 59965.70 4734.61 4636.34 4380.23 3046987 240471 250321 234055
3.3 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 245.16 18.35 18.53 17.83 11005 837 917 880
4 Cash Withdrawal at PoS $ (4.1 to 4.2) 3.58 0.28 0.15 0.14 37 3 2 2
4.1 Using Debit Cards $ 3.32 0.27 0.13 0.12 35 3 2 2
4.2 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 0.25 0.02 0.02 0.02 3 0 0 0
5 Cash Withrawal at Micro ATMs @ 11640.55 898.33 1084.34 1048.96 296622 22981 29379 27358
5.1 AePS @ 11640.55 898.33 1084.34 1048.96 296622 22981 29379 27358

PART III - Payment Infrastructures (Lakh)
System As on March 2025 2024 2025
Nov. Oct. Nov.
1 2 3 4
Payment System Infrastructures        
1 Number of Cards (1.1 to 1.2) 11006.97 10868.11 11411.69 11448.62
1.1 Credit Cards 1098.85 1072.40 1140.18 1148.66
1.2 Debit Cards 9908.12 9795.72 10271.50 10299.96
2 Number of PPIs @ (2.1 to 2.2) 13401.46 15627.20 17710.95 19107.13
2.1 Wallets @ 8678.44 11463.53 12993.66 14410.18
2.2 Cards @ 4723.02 4163.66 4717.28 4696.94
3 Number of ATMs (3.1 to 3.2) 2.56 2.55 2.50 2.51
3.1 Bank owned ATMs $ 2.20 2.20 2.13 2.13
3.2 White Label ATMs $ 0.36 0.35 0.37 0.37
4 Number of Micro ATMs @ 14.82 14.52 14.65 14.27
5 Number of PoS Terminals 110.98 96.91 123.08 112.54
6 Bharat QR @ 67.18 63.60 60.48 59.53
7 UPI QR * 6579.30 6261.80 7175.25 7282.89
@: 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 areexcluded.
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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