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43. Payment System Indicators
Date : May 22, 2023
PART I - Payment System Indicators - Payment & Settlement System Statistics
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2022-23 2022 2023 FY 2021-22 2022 2023
Mar. Feb. Mar. Mar. Feb. Mar.
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 3.25 3.51 3.66 258797336 20588727 22281370 22458408
1.1 Govt. Securities Clearing (1.1.1 to 1.1.3) 15.00 1.04 1.27 1.25 172251292 13682354 14888685 14269424
1.1.1 Outright 7.99 0.46 0.68 0.65 10090700 660443 895740 952079
1.1.2 Repo 4.07 0.30 0.38 0.40 68032487 5341282 6436404 6682508
1.1.3 Tri-party Repo 2.94 0.27 0.21 0.20 94128105 7680629 7556541 6634836
1.2 Forex Clearing 25.16 2.11 2.11 2.28 78932050 6232193 6602897 7329087
1.3 Rupee Derivatives @ 1.27 0.11 0.13 0.13 7613994 674180 789788 859897
B. Payment Systems                
I Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs)
1 Credit Transfers - RTGS (1.1 to 1.2) 2425.62 230.04 200.50 248.01 149946286 14458955 12053579 16122902
1.1 Customer Transactions 2411.19 228.68 199.35 246.66 131667176 13069669 10566198 14416322
1.2 Interbank Transactions 14.43 1.36 1.14 1.35 18279111 1389286 1487381 1706580
II Retail                
2 Credit Transfers - Retail (2.1 to 2.6) 983694.78 66517.82 88613.03 100851.12 55012192 5062466 4650034 5906936
2.1 AePS (Fund Transfers) @ 5.90 0.56 0.31 0.36 356 35 22 24
2.2 APBS $ 17898.09 1400.66 2584.03 1932.07 247580 15565 35514 26400
2.3 IMPS 56532.64 4920.01 4478.13 4970.56 5585441 462279 468647 546235
2.4 NACH Cr $ 19267.00 1825.88 1527.38 1962.73 1544342 131428 134032 178757
2.5 NEFT 52847.43 4314.20 4675.61 5469.06 33719541 3492578 2775972 3750569
2.6 UPI @ 837143.73 54056.51 75347.57 86516.34 13914932 960582 1235847 1404951
2.6.1 of which USSD @ 17.21 0.91 1.51 1.50 197 12 17 18
3 Debit Transfers and Direct Debits (3.1 to 3.3) 15343.22 1136.67 1360.85 1403.39 1289393 98645 115315 126113
3.1 BHIM Aadhaar Pay @ 214.22 19.47 11.50 12.92 6791 640 454 492
3.2 NACH Dr $ 13502.69 979.27 1210.19 1246.53 1280001 97801 114630 125376
3.3 NETC (linked to bank account) @ 1626.31 137.93 139.16 143.94 2601 204 231 246
4 Card Payments (4.1 to 4.2) 63331.67 5512.70 4588.51 5003.95 2152016 171159 168378 190626
4.1 Credit Cards (4.1.1 to 4.1.2) 29145.25 2237.51 2323.20 2634.29 1432255 107107 118684 137311
4.1.1 PoS based $ 15598.70 1134.33 1255.88 1404.60 541944 38777 44611 50920
4.1.2 Others $ 13546.54 1103.18 1067.32 1229.69 890311 68330 74073 86391
4.2 Debit Cards (4.2.1 to 4.2.1) 34186.42 3275.19 2265.31 2369.66 719760 64052 49693 53315
4.2.1 PoS based $ 22893.88 2078.45 1581.95 1628.85 476161 40770 33432 34691
4.2.2 Others $ 11292.54 1196.73 683.36 740.82 243599 23282 16261 18624
5 Prepaid Payment Instruments (5.1 to 5.2) 74667.44 6469.96 6050.89 6225.98 287111 25615 22399 22988
5.1 Wallets 59112.76 5016.86 4929.04 5036.24 221896 20054 18356 18801
5.2 Cards (5.2.1 to 5.2.2) 15554.69 1453.10 1121.85 1189.74 65215 5561 4043 4188
5.2.1 PoS based $ 1013.09 164.77 63.07 64.17 14777 2860 792 825
5.2.2 Others $ 14541.60 1288.34 1058.78 1125.57 50438 2701 3251 3363
6 Paper-based Instruments (6.1 to 6.2) 7087.81 702.93 538.79 642.40 7162537 694335 554113 701109
6.1 CTS (NPCI Managed) 7087.81 702.93 538.79 642.40 7162537 694335 554113 701109
6.2 Others 0.00
Total - Retail Payments (2+3+4+5+6) 1144124.92 80340.08 101152.07 114126.84 65903249 6052221 5510239 6947772
Total Payments (1+2+3+4+5+6) 1146550.54 80570.12 101352.56 114374.85 215849535 20511176 17563818 23070674
Total Digital Payments (1+2+3+4+5) 1139462.73 79867.19 100813.78 113732.45 208686998 19816841 17009704 22369565

PART II - Payment Modes and Channels
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2022-23 2022 2023 FY 2022-23 2022 2023
Mar. Feb. Mar. Mar. Feb. Mar.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
A. Other Payment Channels                
1 Mobile Payments (mobile app based) (1.1 to 1.2) 904589.17 57121.32 82667.18 92896.30 23341498 1648626 2068090 2401075
1.1 Intra-bank $ 62306.62 4218.03 5107.77 5868.83 4191430 298559 353815 436885
1.2 Inter-bank $ 842282.55 52903.29 77559.40 87027.47 19150068 1350067 1714274 1964190
2 Internet Payments (Netbanking / Internet Browser Based) @ (2.1 to 2.2) 42630.64 3924.86 3319.04 3879.51 91539296 8850603 7380904 8981727
2.1 Intra-bank @ 10703.78 962.84 834.55 987.21 53506133 5341587 4172937 4769894
2.2 Inter-bank @ 31926.86 2962.02 2484.49 2892.30 38033163 3509016 3207966 4211833
B. ATMs                
3 Cash Withdrawal at ATMs $ (3.1 to 3.3) 69456.67 5966.82 5471.86 5914.54 3304574 287373 263673 286347
3.1 Using Credit Cards $ 88.28 6.80 7.39 8.18 4291 344 358 396
3.2 Using Debit Cards $ 68963.07 5927.87 5433.00 5871.80 3286320 285893 262090 284540
3.3 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 405.32 32.15 31.47 34.56 13963 1137 1225 1411
4 Cash Withdrawal at PoS $ (4.1 to 4.2) 27.80 2.30 2.18 2.33 284 22 22 24
4.1 Using Debit Cards $ 27.47 2.21 2.17 2.32 282 21 22 23
4.2 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 0.33 0.09 0.01 0.02 2 0 0 0
5 Cash Withrawal at Micro ATMs @ 12375.16 1032.68 918.44 1083.61 333966 28479 25483 30015
5.1 AePS @ 12375.16 1032.68 918.44 1083.61 333966 28479 25483 30015

PART III - Payment Infrastructures (Lakh)
System As on March 2023 2022 2023
Mar. Feb. Mar.
  1 2 3 4
Payment System Infrastructures        
1 Number of Cards (1.1 to 1.2) 10465.62 9912.93 10374.87 10465.62
1.1 Credit Cards 853.03 736.27 833.66 853.03
1.2 Debit Cards 9612.59 9176.66 9541.22 9612.59
2 Number of PPIs @ (2.1 to 2.2) 16185.26 15553.69 16109.65 16185.26
2.1 Wallets @ 13384.68 12787.93 13335.10 13384.68
2.2 Cards @ 2800.58 2765.76 2774.55 2800.58
3 Number of ATMs (3.1 to 3.2) 2.59 2.52 2.57 2.59
3.1 Bank owned ATMs $ 2.23 2.20 2.21 2.23
3.2 White Label ATMs $ 0.36 0.31 0.36 0.36
4 Number of Micro ATMs @ 16.11 9.16 15.59 16.11
5 Number of PoS Terminals 77.90 60.70 77.58 77.90
6 Bharat QR @ 61.42 49.72 52.22 61.42
7 UPI QR * 2563.77 1727.34 2500.89 2563.77
@: 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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