PAYMENT AND SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS

Payment and settlement systems play an important role in improving overall economic efficiency. They consist of all the diverse arrangements that we use to systematically transfer money-currency, paper instruments such as cheques, and various electronic channels.

Press Release

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Date : Feb 03, 2017

Electronic Payment Systems – Data Dissemination (Updated as on March 06, 2018)

Reserve Bank of India has been releasing the representative data on payment systems on a daily basis since December 2, 2016. Effective February 2017, the daily data would now be released once a week till March 31, 2017.

The daily data for the week (Monday to Sunday) would be released every Tuesday. Accordingly, the first release would be on February 7, 2017. There is no change in the content or source of the data.

It may be mentioned that the Payment System Indicators are released on a monthly basis and are a part of the RBI Bulletin https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_ViewBulletin.aspx?Id=16609.

Ajit Prasad
Assistant Adviser

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