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43. Payment System Indicators
Date : Oct 20, 2025
PART I - Payment System Indicators - Payment & Settlement System Statistics
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2024-25 2024 2025 FY 2024-25 2024 2025
Aug. Jul. Aug. Aug. Jul. Aug.
1 -2 -1 0 5 2 3 4
A. Settlement Systems                
Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs)                
1 CCIL Operated Systems (1.1 to 1.3) 47.40 3.88 5.21 4.28 296218030 23205978 32781616 28151946
1.1 Govt. Securities Clearing (1.1.1 to 1.1.3) 17.87 1.62 1.63 1.50 185733719 15544033 19293299 16614170
1.1.1 Outright 10.56 0.99 0.84 0.81 16056018 1468219 1274228 1240951
1.1.2 Repo 4.72 0.41 0.55 0.47 77286611 6391039 8664018 7489700
1.1.3 Tri-party Repo 2.58 0.22 0.24 0.22 92391091 7684775 9355053 7883520
1.2 Forex Clearing 28.06 2.13 3.48 2.69 100639565 6911072 12739681 10788097
1.3 Rupee Derivatives @ 1.46 0.13 0.10 0.10 9844746 750873 748636 749679
B. Payment Systems                
I Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) - - - - - - - -
1 Credit Transfers - RTGS (1.1 to 1.2) 3024.55 237.53 277.67 259.68 201387682 15910436 18863902 16371216
1.1 Customer Transactions 3010.32 236.33 276.46 258.52 181153129 14385410 16624624 14993007
1.2 Interbank Transactions 14.23 1.19 1.21 1.16 20234553 1525025 2239279 1378209
II Retail                
2 Credit Transfers - Retail (2.1 to 2.6) 2061014.91 166465.50 212335.07 218816.17 79781976 6408703 7319321 7102303
2.1 AePS (Fund Transfers) @ 3.64 0.31 0.31 0.31 190 13 16 16
2.2 APBS $ 32964.43 2783.25 2705.04 3817.08 554034 35283 42355 66150
2.3 IMPS 56249.68 4533.37 4821.90 4772.62 7139110 577888 631411 597549
2.4 NACH Cr $ 16938.86 1534.87 1628.20 1854.46 1670223 144196 143081 167856
2.5 NEFT 96198.05 7983.23 8500.14 8288.60 44361464 3590588 3993960 3785260
2.6 UPI @ 1858660.25 149630.47 194679.48 200083.10 26056955 2060736 2508498 2485473
2.6.1 of which USSD @ 17.24 1.45 1.59 0.69 185 15 31 7
3 Debit Transfers and Direct Debits (3.1 to 3.3) 21659.95 1774.78 1912.72 1929.02 2208583 177162 217899 214928
3.1 BHIM Aadhaar Pay @ 230.08 19.06 19.95 25.38 6907 576 619 718
3.2 NACH Dr $ 19762.28 1621.10 1753.66 1764.13 2199327 176386 217102 214031
3.3 NETC (linked to bank account) @ 1667.59 134.62 139.11 139.51 2349 199 179 178
4 Card Payments (4.1 to 4.2) 63861.15 5322.94 5982.42 6055.24 2605110 211726 231987 228565
4.1 Credit Cards (4.1.1 to 4.1.2) 47740.76 3900.49 4861.81 4934.43 2109197 168184 193849 191159
4.1.1 PoS based $ 24571.10 2023.95 2432.75 2500.52 795022 63048 70380 72747
4.1.2 Others $ 23169.66 1876.54 2429.06 2433.91 1314175 105136 123469 118412
4.2 Debit Cards (4.2.1 to 4.2.1) 16120.39 1422.45 1120.61 1120.80 495914 43542 38138 37406
4.2.1 PoS based $ 11980.33 1061.40 832.19 843.59 332556 29346 23921 24663
4.2.2 Others $ 4140.06 361.05 288.42 277.21 163358 14196 14216 12743
5 Prepaid Payment Instruments (5.1 to 5.2) 70254.08 5466.90 7124.06 7966.16 216751 16555 20758 22253
5.1 Wallets 52898.40 4092.83 5431.45 6246.19 154066 11599 16915 17169
5.2 Cards (5.2.1 to 5.2.2) 17355.68 1374.07 1692.61 1719.97 62686 4956 3842 5083
5.2.1 PoS based $ 8240.14 710.24 660.66 669.51 11512 908 908 1030
5.2.2 Others $ 9115.54 663.82 1031.95 1050.45 51174 4048 2935 4054
6 Paper-based Instruments (6.1 to 6.2) 6095.38 508.49 494.59 446.03 7113350 568848 607504 540025
6.1 CTS (NPCI Managed) 6095.38 508.49 494.59 446.03 7113350 568848 607504 540025
6.2 Others 0.00
Total - Retail Payments (2+3+4+5+6) 2222885.46 179538.61 227848.86 235212.61 91925771 7382994 8397469 8108073
Total Payments (1+2+3+4+5+6) 2225910.01 179776.13 228126.54 235472.29 293313453 23293430 27261371 24479289
Total Digital Payments (1+2+3+4+5) 2219814.63 179267.64 227631.95 235026.26 286200103 22724582 26653867 23939264

PART II - Payment Modes and Channels
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2024-25 2024 2025 FY 2024-25 2024 2025
Aug. Jul. Aug. Aug. Jul. Aug.
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 144463.15 180367.99 184421.90 39206221 3182912 3658441 3539374
1.1 Intra-bank $ 110801.96 10667.99 10205.69 10513.87 7207439 614654 634811 605031
1.2 Inter-bank $ 1646174.95 133795.17 170162.30 173908.03 31998782 2568258 3023629 2934344
2 Internet Payments (Netbanking / Internet Browser Based) @ (2.1 to 2.2) 47478.09 3980.06 3987.57 2899.82 131858133 10547357 12803198 7172910
2.1 Intra-bank @ 13056.37 1159.37 935.66 592.15 69086996 5630895 6734105 3104858
2.2 Inter-bank @ 34421.72 2820.69 3051.90 2307.67 62771136 4916461 6069093 4068053
B. ATMs                
3 Cash Withdrawal at ATMs $ (3.1 to 3.3) 60308.11 5157.20 4472.41 4625.94 3063077 255021 232955 240098
3.1 Using Credit Cards $ 97.25 8.46 6.63 6.71 5084 434 362 366
3.2 Using Debit Cards $ 59965.70 5128.53 4447.66 4601.37 3046987 253703 231722 238883
3.3 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 245.16 20.20 18.13 17.86 11005 883 871 849
4 Cash Withdrawal at PoS $ (4.1 to 4.2) 3.58 0.30 0.13 0.13 37 3 1 1
4.1 Using Debit Cards $ 3.33 0.28 0.11 0.10 35 3 1 1
4.2 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 0.25 0.02 0.02 0.02 3 0 0 0
5 Cash Withrawal at Micro ATMs @ 11640.55 972.97 996.95 1245.48 296622 23935 25574 31157
5.1 AePS @ 11640.55 972.97 996.95 1245.48 296622 23935 25574 31157

PART III - Payment Infrastructures (Lakh)
System As on March 2025 2024 2025
Aug. Jul. Aug.
1 2 3 4
Payment System Infrastructures        
1 Number of Cards (1.1 to 1.2) 11006.97 10739.74 11243.50 11303.57
1.1 Credit Cards 1098.85 1054.24 1116.23 1123.14
1.2 Debit Cards 9908.12 9685.49 10127.27 10180.42
2 Number of PPIs @ (2.1 to 2.2) 13396.53 15182.14 13746.53 14584.13
2.1 Wallets @ 8673.62 11322.72 8870.16 9692.18
2.2 Cards @ 4722.91 3859.42 4876.37 4891.95
3 Number of ATMs (3.1 to 3.2) 2.56 2.55 2.49 2.49
3.1 Bank owned ATMs $ 2.20 2.20 2.13 2.12
3.2 White Label ATMs $ 0.36 0.35 0.36 0.36
4 Number of Micro ATMs @ 14.82 14.50 14.67 14.71
5 Number of PoS Terminals 110.98 93.01 119.21 119.73
6 Bharat QR @ 67.18 63.97 66.65 65.97
7 UPI QR * 6579.30 5912.93 6881.22 6978.38
@: 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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