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45. Payment System Indicators
Date : Feb 20, 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
Dec. Nov. Dec. Dec. Nov. Dec.
1 2 3 4 4 5 6 7
A. Settlement Systems                
Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs)                
1 CCIL Operated Systems (1.1 to 1.3) 47.40 3.78 4.08 5.07 296218030 27448820 28209256 34813891
1.1 Govt. Securities Clearing (1.1.1 to 1.1.3) 17.87 1.49 1.53 1.71 185733719 16506680 17161813 20459216
1.1.1 Outright 10.56 0.84 0.88 0.94 16056018 1348782 1226375 1358772
1.1.2 Repo 4.72 0.41 0.44 0.51 77286611 6377679 7838569 9176297
1.1.3 Tri-party Repo 2.58 0.24 0.21 0.26 92391091 8780219 8096869 9924147
1.2 Forex Clearing 28.06 2.16 2.46 3.27 100639565 9919285 10100567 13484010
1.3 Rupee Derivatives @ 1.46 0.13 0.08 0.10 9844746 1022855 946876 870666
B. Payment Systems                
I Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) - - - - - - - -
1 Credit Transfers - RTGS (1.1 to 1.2) 3024.55 262.29 284.89 317.67 201387682 19163587 16881605 21969481
1.1 Customer Transactions 3010.32 261.11 283.75 316.41 181153129 17161423 15505696 19992108
1.2 Interbank Transactions 14.23 1.17 1.14 1.26 20234553 2002163 1375908 1977373
II Retail                
2 Credit Transfers - Retail (2.1 to 2.6) 2061014.91 183786.41 221600.52 232522.27 79881976 6935632 7313610 8086110
2.1 AePS (Fund Transfers) @ 3.64 0.31 0.26 0.21 190 17 11 12
2.2 APBS $ 32964.43 2451.41 3375.31 2357.78 554034 58705 69483 81224
2.3 IMPS 56249.68 4411.64 3689.31 3799.33 7139110 601549 615177 662452
2.4 NACH Cr $ 16938.86 1315.94 1690.81 1240.69 1670223 135695 163208 168800
2.5 NEFT 96198.05 8307.02 8175.04 8777.58 44461464 3814966 3834099 4376909
2.6 UPI @ 1858660.25 167300.09 204669.79 216346.68 26056955 2324700 2631633 2796713
2.6.1 of which USSD @ 17.24 1.56 0.56 0.52 185 16 7 5
3 Debit Transfers and Direct Debits (3.1 to 3.3) 21659.95 1905.47 1987.04 2012.39 2208583 198303 226304 242667
3.1 BHIM Aadhaar Pay @ 230.08 17.18 19.28 17.39 6907 547 609 600
3.2 NACH Dr $ 19762.28 1738.32 1835.73 1858.15 2199327 197549 225517 241878
3.3 NETC (linked to bank account) @ 1667.59 149.97 132.03 136.85 2349 207 178 189
4 Card Payments (4.1 to 4.2) 63861.15 5608.59 6041.95 6447.58 2605110 228548 222942 241961
4.1 Credit Cards (4.1.1 to 4.1.2) 47740.76 4328.50 5029.84 5398.34 2109197 187949 188799 204687
4.1.1 PoS based $ 24571.10 2240.03 2538.40 2726.32 795022 73048 75640 78476
4.1.2 Others $ 23169.66 2088.46 2491.45 2672.02 1314175 114901 113159 126210
4.2 Debit Cards (4.2.1 to 4.2.1 ) 16120.39 1280.10 1012.11 1049.24 495914 40599 34143 37274
4.2.1 PoS based $ 11980.33 964.50 763.31 794.35 332556 27609 22754 24599
4.2.2 Others $ 4140.06 315.60 248.80 254.89 163358 12990 11389 12675
5 Prepaid Payment Instruments (5.1 to 5.2) 70254.08 6377.99 8973.35 9755.15 216751 18992 24639 27044
5.1 Wallets 52898.40 4830.75 7347.33 8094.62 154066 14437 19265 20834
5.2 Cards (5.2.1 to 5.2.2) 17355.68 1547.24 1626.02 1660.53 62686 4556 5374 6210
5.2.1 PoS based $ 8240.14 684.93 682.35 694.23 11512 991 1365 1391
5.2.2 Others $ 9115.54 862.31 943.66 966.30 51174 3565 4010 4819
6 Paper-based Instruments (6.1 to 6.2) 6095.38 506.56 448.60 476.39 7113350 587879 570251 620352
6.1 CTS (NPCI Managed) 6095.38 506.56 448.60 476.39 7113350 587879 570251 620352
6.2 Others 0.00
Total - Retail Payments (2+3+4+5+6) 2222885.46 198185.02 239051.46 251213.79 92025771 7969354 8357746 9218135
Total Payments (1+2+3+4+5+6) 2225910.01 198447.31 239336.34 251531.46 293413453 27132941 25239350 31187617
Total Digital Payments (1+2+3+4+5) 2219814.63 197940.75 238887.74 251055.07 286300103 26545062 24669100 30567264

PART II - Payment Modes and Channels
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2024-25 2024 2025 FY 2024-25 2024 2025
Dec. Nov. Dec. Dec. Nov. Dec.
1 2 3 4 4 5 6 7
A. Other Payment Channels                
1 Mobile Payments (mobile app based) (1.1 to 1.2) 1756976.91 156763.28 187787.15 198740.92 39206221 3455808 3769403 4029352
1.1 Intra-bank $ 110801.96 9183.14 10306.94 10679.51 7207439 618347 637681 694233
1.2 Inter-bank $ 1646174.95 147580.14 177480.21 188061.41 31998782 2837461 3131722 3335119
2 Internet Payments (Netbanking / Internet Browser Based) @ (2.1 to 2.2) 47478.09 4072.71 3527.10 3757.66 131858133 12203095 11864143 15193135
2.1 Intra-bank @ 13056.37 1155.00 809.63 875.29 69086996 6414756 6241771 8063055
2.2 Inter-bank @ 34421.72 2917.71 2717.48 2882.36 62771136 5788339 5622372 7130080
B. ATMs                
3 Cash Withdrawal at ATMs $ (3.1 to 3.3) 60308.11 4950.77 4404.78 4469.09 3063077 252471 235313 240222
3.1 Using Credit Cards $ 97.25 8.12 6.72 6.96 5084 429 378 393
3.2 Using Debit Cards $ 59965.70 4923.54 4380.23 4444.02 3046987 251161 234055 238925
3.3 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 245.16 19.11 17.83 18.11 11005 881 880 904
4 Cash Withdrawal at PoS $ (4.1 to 4.2) 3.58 0.29 0.14 0.14 37 3 2 2
4.1 Using Debit Cards $ 3.33 0.26 0.12 0.12 35 3 2 2
4.2 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 0.25 0.03 0.02 0.02 3 0 0 0
5 Cash Withrawal at Micro ATMs @ 11640.55 910.87 1048.96 926.03 296622 23195 27358 24083
5.1 AePS @ 11640.55 910.87 1048.96 926.03 296622 23195 27358 24083

PART III - Payment Infrastructures (Lakh)
System As on March 2025 2024 2025
Dec. Nov. Dec.
1 2 3 4
Payment System Infrastructures        
1 Number of Cards (1.1 to 1.2) 11006.97 10990.04 11465.79 11501.30
1.1 Credit Cards 1098.85 1080.56 1148.76 1157.84
1.2 Debit Cards 9908.12 9909.48 10317.03 10343.46
2 Number of PPIs @ (2.1 to 2.2) 13401.46 13272.19 19107.13 20873.16
2.1 Wallets @ 8678.44 8907.25 14410.18 16170.73
2.2 Cards @ 4723.02 4364.94 4696.95 4702.43
3 Number of ATMs (3.1 to 3.2) 2.56 2.55 2.51 2.50
3.1 Bank owned ATMs $ 2.20 2.19 2.13 2.13
3.2 White Label ATMs $ 0.36 0.36 0.37 0.37
4 Number of Micro ATMs @ 14.82 14.76 14.27 14.15
5 Number of PoS Terminals 110.98 100.01 112.54 114.75
6 Bharat QR @ 67.18 63.83 59.53 58.90
7 UPI QR * 6579.30 6335.30 7282.00 7313.65
@: 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
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..
published along with revision in data definitions.
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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