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45. Payment System Indicators
Date : Aug 25, 2026
PART I - Payment System Indicators - Payment & Settlement System Statistics
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2025-26 2025 2026 FY 2025-26 2025 2026
Jun. May Jun. Jun. May Jun.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
A. Settlement Systems                
Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs)                
1. CCIL Operated Systems (1.1 to 1.3) 56.84 5.30 4.87 5.60 367014602 30959727 32125386 35295220
1.1 Govt. Securities Clearing (1.1.1 to 1.1.3) 20.08 1.77 1.71 2.03 214487317 17946468 18071700 19743616
1.1.1 Outright 11.76 1.05 1.03 1.31 17320069 1611829 1254908 1726964
1.1.2 Repo 5.62 0.51 0.43 0.46 93385356 7894091 6790220 7575558
1.1.3 Tri-party Repo 2.70 0.21 0.25 0.26 103781892 8440549 10026571 10441094
1.2 Forex Clearing 35.44 3.39 2.96 3.39 141483010 11968143 12462096 14283593
1.3 Rupee Derivatives @ 1.32 0.14 0.21 0.18 11044275 1045117 1591591 1268011
B. Payment Systems                
I. Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) - - - - - - - -
1. Credit Transfers - RTGS (1.1 to 1.2) 3499.79 254.88 315.38 319.29 227372648 19012360 18618676 22984140
1.1 Customer Transactions 3485.43 253.73 314.27 318.14 206929117 16983278 17246274 21210783
1.2 Interbank Transactions 14.36 1.15 1.11 1.15 20443531 2029082 1372402 1773357
II. Retail                
2. Credit Transfers - Retail (2.1 to 2.6) 2618738.01 200519.84 246885.68 243626.31 91939186 6957478 8135516 8255460
2.1 AePS (Fund Transfers) @ 3.28 0.30 0.24 0.23 170 16 14 13
2.2 APBS $ 33854.21 2841.94 2048.40 3151.62 717040 48247 62137 62653
2.3 IMPS 49431.09 4481.05 3580.97 3539.18 7669929 606356 695701 676543
2.4 NACH Cr $ 18284.42 1325.97 740.50 1192.32 1902293 134188 154628 170436
2.5 NEFT 100996.16 7920.52 8496.29 8582.30 50226505 3764742 4232611 4453677
2.6 UPI @ 2416168.86 183950.06 232019.28 227160.66 31423250 2403931 2990424 2892139
2.6.1 of which USSD @ 14.31 1.18 1.28 1.28 188 21 13 13
3. Debit Transfers and Direct Debits (3.1 to 3.3) 23471.34 1891.36 2087.74 2094.13 2697355 210754 247007 260337
3.1 BHIM Aadhaar Pay @ 231.96 18.27 27.29 32.30 7739 615 968 1079
3.2 NACH Dr $ 21614.19 1728.39 1897.25 1912.95 2687459 209956 245849 259076
3.3 NETC (linked to bank account) @ 1625.19 144.70 163.20 148.88 2157 183 190 182
4. Card Payments (4.1 to 4.2) 73039.76 5672.82 6953.63 6783.52 2807946 218552 238163 236660
4.1 Credit Cards (4.1.1 to 4.1.2) 60237.64 4587.10 5955.02 5812.59 2362471 183088 202742 201362
4.1.1 PoS based $ 30153.21 2338.70 2903.64 2855.64 885019 67468 76095 74262
4.1.2 Others $ 30084.43 2248.41 3051.38 2956.95 1477452 115620 126647 127100
4.2 Debit Cards (4.2.1 to 4.2.2) 12802.12 1085.72 998.62 970.93 445475 35463 35420 35299
4.2.1 PoS based $ 9601.85 812.90 737.79 712.56 293537 23079 22187 21692
4.2.2 Others $ 3200.27 272.82 260.83 258.37 151938 12384 13233 13607
5. Prepaid Payment Instruments (5.1 to 5.2) 98699.47 6868.39 9022.57 8882.56 286429 20740 29443 27495
5.1 Wallets 78570.94 5338.82 7132.74 6978.87 223016 17308 22677 20970
5.2 Cards (5.2.1 to 5.2.2) 20128.53 1529.57 1889.82 1903.69 63414 3432 6766 6525
5.2.1 PoS based $ 8356.49 595.05 781.94 794.48 14373 888 1408 1343
5.2.2 Others $ 11772.04 934.51 1107.88 1109.21 49041 2544 5358 5182
6. Paper-based Instruments (6.1 to 6.2) 5587.83 447.43 419.39 425.55 7147568 550176 596835 607843
6.1 CTS (NPCI Managed) 5587.83 447.43 419.39 425.55 7147568 550176 596835 607843
6.2 Others 0.00
Total - Retail Payments (2+3+4+5+6) 2819536.40 215399.84 265369.01 261812.07 104878484 7957700 9246964 9387796
Total Payments (1+2+3+4+5+6) 2823036.19 215654.72 265684.39 262131.36 332251133 26970060 27865640 32371936
Total Digital Payments (1+2+3+4+5) 2817448.36 215207.29 265265.00 261705.81 325103565 26419884 27268805 31764092

PART II - Payment Modes and Channels
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2025-26 2025 2026 FY 2025-26 2025 2026
Jun. May Jun. Jun. May Jun.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
A. Other Payment Channels                
1. Mobile Payments (mobile app based) (1.1 to 1.2) 2226710.88 170640.06 199200.46 195229.65 45558548 3467471 3950902 3913801
1.1 Intra-bank $ 122837.81 9560.56 10985.43 10719.58 7917883 611425 704120 723171
1.2 Inter-bank $ 2103873.07 161079.50 188215.03 184510.07 37640666 2856046 3246782 3190630
2. Internet Payments (Netbanking / Internet Browser Based) @ (2.1 to 2.2) 44541.07 3635.82 3095.94 3182.59 158930351 12824960 11236640 13165772
2.1 Intra-bank @ 10212.76 839.90 629.92 651.68 83681438 6918867 5181064 6035123
2.2 Inter-bank @ 34328.30 2795.92 2466.02 2530.91 75248914 5906093 6055576 7130649
B. ATMs                
3. Cash Withdrawal at ATMs $ (3.1 to 3.3) 53689.48 4382.08 4176.39 4007.78 2873737 229907 231340 217595
3.1 Using Credit Cards $ 81.07 6.28 6.42 6.30 4525 345 366 357
3.2 Using Debit Cards $ 53394.13 4358.58 4152.55 3984.29 2858626 228735 230088 216359
3.3 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 214.27 17.22 17.43 17.19 10586 827 885 880
4. Cash Withdrawal at PoS $ (4.1 to 4.2) 1.69 0.14 0.11 0.10 22 1 2 2
4.1 Using Debit Cards $ 1.39 0.11 0.08 0.07 18 1 1 1
4.2 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 0.30 0.02 0.03 0.03 4 0 0 0
5. Cash Withrawal at Micro ATMs @ 12126.36 944.62 844.66 928.19 322744 25646 23729 24411
5.1 AePS @ 12126.36 944.62 844.66 928.19 322744 25646 23729 24411

PART III - Payment Infrastructures (Lakh)
System As on March 2026 2025 2026
Jun. May Jun.
1 2 3 4
Payment System Infrastructures        
1. Number of Cards (1.1 to 1.2) 11632.02 11161.50 11483.62 11534.57
1.1 Credit Cards 1186.34 1109.69 1204.54 1215.91
1.2 Debit Cards 10445.69 10051.80 10279.08 10318.66
2. Number of PPIs @ (2.1 to 2.2) 22992.54 13520.65 22221.66 22460.84
2.1 Wallets @ 18253.42 8681.92 17596.04 17803.44
2.2 Cards @ 4739.13 4838.73 4625.61 4657.40
3. Number of ATMs (3.1 to 3.2) 2.54 2.51 2.54 2.52
3.1 Bank owned ATMs $ 2.16 2.15 2.17 2.16
3.2 White Label ATMs $ 0.38 0.36 0.37 0.36
4. Number of Micro ATMs @ 13.90 14.59 13.58 13.37
5. Number of PoS Terminals 117.69 117.83 115.25 99.22
6. Bharat QR @ 56.33 66.99 56.05 52.66
7. UPI QR * 7612.17 6781.61 7797.65 7925.74
@ : 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 are 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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