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43. Payment System Indicators
Date : Jan 21, 2021
PART I - Payment System Indicators - Payment & Settlement System Statistics
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2019-20 2019 2020 FY 2019-20 2019 2020
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) 2.78 2.44 2.45 10655649 12416671 10692192
1.1 Govt. Securities Clearing (1.1.1 to 1.1.3) 1.01 1.06 0.79 6869045 8849617 6942678
1.1.1 Outright 0.63 0.61 0.48 862104 900488 727023
1.1.2 Repo 0.19 0.27 0.12 2359755 4108317 1762647
1.1.3 Tri-party Repo 0.19 0.18 0.19 3647186 3840812 4453008
1.2 Forex Clearing 1.74 1.36 1.64 3525359 3435633 3625849
1.3 Rupee Derivatives @ 0.04 0.02 0.02 261245 131420 123665
B. Payment Systems                
I Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs)
1 Credit Transfers - RTGS (1.1 to 1.2) 133.87 138.22 137.80 8679806 8496046 7987655
1.1 Customer Transactions 131.61 136.54 136.13 7469569 7226105 6802206
1.2 Interbank Transactions 2.27 1.68 1.67 1210237 1269941 1185449
II Retail                
2 Credit Transfers - Retail (2.1 to 2.6) 18750.31 28646.23 30269.97 2226286 2993114 2986234
2.1 AePS (Fund Transfers) @ 0.64 1.02 0.93 33 57 54
2.2 APBS $ 1364.56 961.85 927.29 6908 5531 4400
2.3 IMPS 2280.75 3189.72 3391.14 202904 274645 276459
2.4 NACH Cr $ 722.06 1015.80 1114.23 92562 91386 96069
2.5 NEFT 2194.59 2761.65 2734.10 1734651 2235389 2218252
2.6 UPI @ 12187.71 20716.19 22102.28 189229 386107 390999
2.6.1 of which USSD @ 0.74 0.97 0.91 13 16 15
3 Debit Transfers and Direct Debits (3.1 to 3.3) 766.41 920.15 944.24 70199 79305 78709
3.1 BHIM Aadhaar Pay @ 6.46 10.55 9.39 97 192 181
3.2 NACH Dr $ 758.18 848.34 869.63 70097 79022 78433
3.3 NETC (linked to bank account) @ 1.77 61.26 65.22 5 91 96
4 Card Payments (4.1 to 4.2) 6062.09 5863.58 5633.00 137707 168169 163940
4.1 Credit Cards (4.1.1 to 4.1.2) 1762.12 1718.03 1662.58 60130 64652 62350
4.1.1 PoS based $ 1033.52 818.33 874.82 31730 26956 30495
4.1.2 Others $ 728.60 899.70 787.76 28401 37696 31855
4.2 Debit Cards (4.2.1 to 4.2.1 ) 4299.96 4145.55 3970.43 77577 103517 101591
4.2.1 PoS based $ 2483.18 1983.98 2112.56 37007 37110 42289
4.2.2 Others $ 1816.79 2161.57 1857.87 40570 66408 59302
5 Prepaid Payment Instruments (5.1 to 5.2) 4672.07 4591.51 4193.78 17844 17802 16704
5.1 Wallets 3354.08 3639.88 3420.83 14652 13718 12717
5.2 Cards (5.2.1 to 5.2.2) 1317.99 951.63 772.96 3192 4084 3987
5.2.1 PoS based $ 123.86 37.11 39.38 738 1045 1111
5.2.2 Others $ 1194.13 914.52 733.57 2454 3039 2877
6 Paper-based Instruments (6.1 to 6.2) 866.12 643.08 596.35 644802 524090 494383
6.1 CTS (NPCI Managed) 864.86 643.08 596.35 643678 524090 494383
6.2 Others 1.26 0.00 0.00 1124
Total - Retail Payments (2+3+4+5+6) 31117.01 40664.55 41637.35 3096840 3782480 3739970
Total Payments (1+2+3+4+5+6) 31250.88 40802.76 41775.15 11776646 12278526 11727625
Total Digital Payments (1+2+3+4+5) 30384.76 40159.68 41178.79 11131843 11754436 11233243

PART II - Payment Modes and Channels
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2019-20 2019 2020 FY 2019-20 2019 2020
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) 13534.23 22713.54 22521.45 471295 796402 778380
1.1 Intra-bank $ 1234.84 2103.16 2191.98 96802 158866 165155
1.2 Inter-bank $ 12299.40 20610.38 20329.47 374494 637535 613225
2 Internet Payments (Netbanking / Internet Browser Based) @ (2.1 to 2.2) 2719.42 2977.78 2814.17 2539143 3407315 3419474
2.1 Intra-bank @ 592.01 619.27 585.09 1058811 1646090 1653359
2.2 Inter-bank @ 2127.41 2358.51 2229.09 1480333 1761225 1766114
B. ATMs                
3 Cash Withdrawal at ATMs $ (3.1 to 3.3) 6305.28 5688.24 5913.87 285376 271622 280522
3.1 Using Credit Cards $ 7.99 4.85 4.64 381 240 231
3.2 Using Debit Cards $ 6269.60 5658.36 5883.59 284083 270488 279379
3.3 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 27.68 25.04 25.63 912 893 912
4 Cash Withdrawal at PoS $ (4.1 to 4.2) 67.02 34.11 37.91 134 134 143
4.1 Using Debit Cards $ 62.70 29.24 32.33 129 129 137
4.2 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 4.32 4.87 5.58 5 5 6
5 Cash Withrawal at Micro ATMs @ 339.83 720.69 684.78 9648 18354 18820
5.1 AePS @ 339.83 720.69 684.78 9648 18354 18820

PART III - Payment Infrastructures (Lakh)
System FY 2019-20 2019 2020
Nov. Oct. Nov.
  1 2 3 4
Payment System Infrastructures        
1 Number of Cards (1.1 to 1.2) 8851.69 9335.85 9528.15
1.1 Credit Cards 544.11 594.20 601.13
1.2 Debit Cards 8307.59 8741.65 8927.02
2 Number of PPIs @ (2.1 to 2.2) 17253.28 20143.54 20443.15
2.1 Wallets @ 16243.87 18578.62 18857.67
2.2 Cards @ 1009.41 1564.92 1585.48
3 Number of ATMs (3.1 to 3.2) 2.32 2.34 2.34
3.1 Bank owned ATMs $ 2.10 2.10 2.09
3.2 White Label ATMs $ 0.22 0.24 0.25
4 Number of Micro ATMs @ 2.35 3.49 3.57
5 Number of PoS Terminals 48.83 53.94 54.19
6 Bharat QR @ 15.94 26.05 30.46
7 UPI QR * 657.45 697.82
@: New inclusion w.e.f. November 2019
$ : 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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