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44. Payment System Indicators
Date : Dec 22, 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
Oct. Sep. Oct. Oct. Sep. Oct.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
A. Settlement Systems                
Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs)                
1 CCIL Operated Systems (1.1 to 1.3) 47.40 3.59 4.95 4.25 296218030 25730864 30270023 30434601
1.1 Govt. Securities Clearing (1.1.1 to 1.1.3) 17.87 1.69 1.75 1.63 185733719 16664120 18003263 18365111
1.1.1 Outright 10.56 1.04 1.04 0.95 16056018 1626397 1499643 1439939
1.1.2 Repo 4.72 0.41 0.48 0.46 77286611 6573748 7926471 8365990
1.1.3 Tri-party Repo 2.58 0.23 0.23 0.23 92391091 8463975 8577149 8559182
1.2 Forex Clearing 28.06 1.74 3.11 2.51 100639565 8046345 11417001 11161871
1.3 Rupee Derivatives @ 1.46 0.16 0.09 0.11 9844746 1020399 849759 907620
B. Payment Systems                
I Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) - - - - - - - -
1 Credit Transfers - RTGS (1.1 to 1.2) 3024.55 267.92 280.83 296.76 201387682 17070975 19836942 18732702
1.1 Customer Transactions 3010.32 266.69 279.64 295.56 181153129 15418778 18220475 17108666
1.2 Interbank Transactions 14.23 1.23 1.19 1.20 20234553 1652197 1616467 1624036
II Retail                
2 Credit Transfers - Retail (2.1 to 2.6) 2061014.91 185187.17 213074.92 224318.23 79881976 7358283 7543380 7851867
2.1 AePS (Fund Transfers) @ 3.64 0.31 0.26 0.27 190 17 12 12
2.2 APBS $ 32964.43 4021.91 2542.90 2745.64 554034 69157 41746 43353
2.3 IMPS 56249.68 4668.23 3943.79 4035.88 7139110 629382 596847 641964
2.4 NACH Cr $ 16938.86 1463.68 1850.43 1736.26 1670223 157479 149729 165141
2.5 NEFT 96198.05 9183.38 8403.21 8790.97 44461464 4152428 4265310 4273608
2.6 UPI @ 1858660.25 165849.66 196334.33 207009.21 26056955 2349821 2489737 2727791
2.6.1 of which USSD @ 17.24 1.64 0.94 1.14 185 18 10 13
3 Debit Transfers and Direct Debits (3.1 to 3.3) 21659.95 1871.73 1926.97 1964.66 2208583 189818 222919 223881
3.1 BHIM Aadhaar Pay @ 230.08 24.54 18.90 20.58 6907 773 591 661
3.2 NACH Dr $ 19762.28 1710.21 1786.47 1812.26 2199327 188844 222164 223048
3.3 NETC (linked to bank account) @ 1667.59 136.98 121.60 131.82 2349 202 164 172
4 Card Payments (4.1 to 4.2) 63861.15 5759.31 5999.80 6279.14 2605110 248619 253483 256373
4.1 Credit Cards (4.1.1 to 4.1.2) 47740.76 4332.14 4952.41 5182.90 2109197 201789 216707 214230
4.1.1 PoS based $ 24571.10 2196.73 2416.15 2609.42 795022 79293 72544 88357
4.1.2 Others $ 23169.66 2135.41 2536.26 2573.48 1314175 122496 144163 125873
4.2 Debit Cards (4.2.1 to 4.2.1 ) 16120.39 1427.17 1047.39 1096.25 495914 46830 36776 42143
4.2.1 PoS based $ 11980.33 1060.17 777.56 828.79 332556 32091 22773 29104
4.2.2 Others $ 4140.06 367.00 269.83 267.46 163358 14738 14003 13039
5 Prepaid Payment Instruments (5.1 to 5.2) 70254.08 5977.88 8551.51 8939.26 216751 20419 22637 24227
5.1 Wallets 52898.40 4425.20 6871.58 7281.56 154066 13074 17183 18515
5.2 Cards (5.2.1 to 5.2.2) 17355.68 1552.68 1679.93 1657.70 62686 7345 5454 5712
5.2.1 PoS based $ 8240.14 718.88 688.72 649.16 11512 981 1092 1274
5.2.2 Others $ 9115.54 833.81 991.22 1008.54 51174 6365 4362 4437
6 Paper-based Instruments (6.1 to 6.2) 6095.38 546.98 464.86 452.12 7113350 624057 570467 574554
6.1 CTS (NPCI Managed) 6095.38 546.98 464.86 452.12 7113350 624057 570467 574554
6.2 Others 0.00
Total - Retail Payments (2+3+4+5+6) 2222885.46 199343.07 230018.06 241953.42 92025771 8441196 8612885 8930903
Total Payments (1+2+3+4+5+6) 2225910.01 199610.99 230298.89 242250.18 293413453 25512171 28449827 27663605
Total Digital Payments (1+2+3+4+5) 2219814.63 199064.01 229834.03 241798.06 286300103 24888114 27879360 27089051

PART II - Payment Modes and Channels
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2024-25 2024 2025 FY 2024-25 2024 2025
Oct. Sep. Oct. Oct. Sep. Oct.
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 154876.80 181008.61 190876.05 39206221 3532243 3618114 3928496
1.1 Intra-bank $ 110801.96 9126.58 10469.49 10981.41 7207439 657333 633733 687557
1.2 Inter-bank $ 1646174.95 145750.22 170539.12 179894.64 31998782 2874910 2984381 3240939
2 Internet Payments (Netbanking / Internet Browser Based) @ (2.1 to 2.2) 47478.09 4259.90 3755.37 3803.42 131858133 11281098 13654298 13199799
2.1 Intra-bank @ 13056.37 1152.19 853.80 872.08 69086996 5801815 7091903 6840494
2.2 Inter-bank @ 34421.72 3107.71 2901.57 2931.34 62771136 5479282 6562395 6359305
B. ATMs                
3 Cash Withdrawal at ATMs $ (3.1 to 3.3) 60308.11 5545.04 4395.48 4661.98 3063077 285506 230952 251643
3.1 Using Credit Cards $ 97.25 8.32 6.69 7.12 5084 444 369 404
3.2 Using Debit Cards $ 59965.70 5515.23 4370.90 4636.34 3046987 284076 229713 250321
3.3 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 245.16 21.49 17.89 18.53 11005 985 870 917
4 Cash Withdrawal at PoS $ (4.1 to 4.2) 3.58 0.29 0.12 0.15 37 3 2 2
4.1 Using Debit Cards $ 3.33 0.28 0.10 0.13 35 3 1 2
4.2 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 0.25 0.01 0.02 0.02 3 0 0 0
5 Cash Withrawal at Micro ATMs @ 11640.55 1227.30 1034.96 1084.34 296622 31480 26356 29379
5.1 AePS @ 11640.55 1227.30 1034.96 1084.34 296622 31480 26356 29379

PART III - Payment Infrastructures (Lakh)
System As on March 2025 2024 2025
Oct. Sep. Oct.
1 2 3 4
Payment System Infrastructures        
1 Number of Cards (1.1 to 1.2) 11006.97 10878.00 11381.99 11411.69
1.1 Credit Cards 1098.85 1068.90 1133.90 1140.18
1.2 Debit Cards 9908.12 9809.11 10248.09 10271.50
2 Number of PPIs @ (2.1 to 2.2) 13401.46 15503.38 16180.40 17710.95
2.1 Wallets @ 8678.44 11439.31 11478.95 12993.66
2.2 Cards @ 4723.02 4064.07 4701.45 4717.28
3 Number of ATMs (3.1 to 3.2) 2.56 2.56 2.49 2.50
3.1 Bank owned ATMs $ 2.20 2.21 2.12 2.13
3.2 White Label ATMs $ 0.36 0.35 0.37 0.37
4 Number of Micro ATMs @ 14.82 14.51 14.60 14.65
5 Number of PoS Terminals 110.98 95.09 121.24 123.17
6 Bharat QR @ 67.18 64.31 60.95 60.73
7 UPI QR * 6579.30 6168.52 7090.66 7175.25
@: 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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