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45. Payment System Indicators
Date : Mar 23, 2026
PART I - Payment System Indicators - Payment & Settlement System Statistics
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2024-25 2025 2026 FY 2024-25 2025 2026
Jan. Dec. Jan. Jan. Dec. Jan.
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 4.88 5.07 4.35 296218030 30296790 34813891 32155354
1.1 Govt. Securities Clearing (1.1.1 to 1.1.3) 17.87 1.77 1.71 1.61 185733719 17807347 20459216 18709470
1.1.1 Outright 10.56 1.10 0.94 0.90 16056018 1627265 1358772 1235356
1.1.2 Repo 4.72 0.41 0.51 0.46 77286611 7288494 9176297 7775968
1.1.3 Tri-party Repo 2.58 0.25 0.26 0.25 92391091 8891588 9924147 9698147
1.2 Forex Clearing 28.06 2.94 3.27 2.64 100639565 11164125 13484010 12450917
1.3 Rupee Derivatives @ 1.46 0.17 0.10 0.10 9844746 1325318 870666 994967
B. Payment Systems                
I. Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) - - - - - - - -
1. Credit Transfers - RTGS (1.1 to 1.2) 3024.55 268.15 317.67 316.99 201387682 17499363 21969481 19176704
1.1 Customer Transactions 3010.32 266.89 316.41 315.76 181153129 15571748 19992108 17580604
1.2 Interbank Transactions 14.23 1.26 1.26 1.23 20234553 1927615 1977373 1596100
II. Retail                
2. Credit Transfers - Retail (2.1 to 2.6) 2061014.91 186538.41 232522.27 233364.66 79881976 7000487 8086110 8078680
2.1 AePS (Fund Transfers) @ 3.64 0.31 0.21 0.24 190 18 12 14
2.2 APBS $ 32964.43 2263.21 2357.78 2616.49 554034 52280 81224 81195
2.3 IMPS 56249.68 4442.23 3799.33 3740.33 7139110 606420 662452 672989
2.4 NACH Cr $ 16938.86 1304.72 1240.69 1248.95 1670223 145699 168800 161580
2.5 NEFT 96198.05 8567.93 8777.58 8724.20 44461464 3848033 4376909 4329421
2.6 UPI @ 1858660.25 169960.01 216346.68 217034.45 26056955 2348037 2796713 2833481
2.6.1 of which USSD @ 17.24 1.38 0.52 1.14 185 16 5 12
3. Debit Transfers and Direct Debits (3.1 to 3.3) 21659.95 1878.45 2012.39 2016.80 2208583 199535 242667 240345
3.1 BHIM Aadhaar Pay @ 230.08 15.79 17.39 17.87 6907 486 600 648
3.2 NACH Dr $ 19762.28 1715.83 1858.15 1865.64 2199327 198857 241878 239514
3.3 NETC (linked to bank account) @ 1667.59 146.83 136.85 133.29 2349 193 189 184
4. Card Payments (4.1 to 4.2) 63861.15 5522.42 6447.58 6415.41 2605110 223090 241961 237042
4.1 Credit Cards (4.1.1 to 4.1.2) 47740.76 4305.72 5398.34 5397.11 2109197 184126 204687 199085
4.1.1 PoS based $ 24571.10 2177.43 2726.32 2674.95 795022 69429 78476 75988
4.1.2 Others $ 23169.66 2128.29 2672.02 2722.16 1314175 114697 126210 123097
4.2 Debit Cards (4.2.1 to 4.2.1) 16120.39 1216.69 1049.24 1018.29 495914 38963 37274 37957
4.2.1 PoS based $ 11980.33 910.91 794.35 773.20 332556 25999 24599 25513
4.2.2 Others $ 4140.06 305.78 254.89 245.10 163358 12965 12675 12444
5. Prepaid Payment Instruments (5.1 to 5.2) 70254.08 6547.10 9755.15 9537.91 216751 19496 27044 27626
5.1 Wallets 52898.40 4875.14 8094.62 7716.41 154066 14700 20834 20985
5.2 Cards (5.2.1 to 5.2.2) 17355.68 1671.97 1660.53 1821.50 62686 4796 6210 6641
5.2.1 PoS based $ 8240.14 701.18 694.23 827.76 11512 1000 1391 1582
5.2.2 Others $ 9115.54 970.79 966.30 993.74 51174 3796 4819 5059
6. Paper-based Instruments (6.1 to 6.2) 6095.38 516.61 476.39 458.71 7113350 606756 620352 601415
6.1 CTS (NPCI Managed) 6095.38 516.61 476.39 458.71 7113350 606756 620352 601415
6.2 Others 0.00
Total - Retail Payments (2+3+4+5+6) 2222885.46 201003.00 251213.79 251793.49 92025771 8049363 9218135 9185108
Total Payments (1+2+3+4+5+6) 2225910.01 201271.14 251531.46 252110.48 293413453 25548726 31187617 28361812
Total Digital Payments (1+2+3+4+5) 2219814.63 200754.53 251055.07 251651.77 286300103 24941970 30567264 27760397

PART II - Payment Modes and Channels
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2024-25 2025 2026 FY 2024-25 2025 2026
Jan. Dec. Jan. Jan. Dec. Jan.
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 158794.78 198740.92 199023.23 39206221 3451865 4029352 4120520
1.1 Intra-bank $ 110801.96 9234.72 10679.51 10652.87 7207439 607541 694233 709038
1.2 Inter-bank $ 1646174.95 149560.06 188061.41 188370.36 31998782 2844325 3335119 3411483
2. Internet Payments (Netbanking / Internet Browser Based) @ (2.1 to 2.2) 47478.09 4167.05 3757.66 3726.69 131858133 11639721 15193135 13905643
2.1 Intra-bank @ 13056.37 1212.87 875.29 848.72 69086996 6130804 8063055 7386592
2.2 Inter-bank @ 34421.72 2954.18 2882.36 2877.97 62771136 5508917 7130080 6519051
B. ATMs                
3. Cash Withdrawal at ATMs $ (3.1 to 3.3) 60308.11 4910.07 4469.09 4437.06 3063077 251938 240222 240472
3.1 Using Credit Cards $ 97.25 7.79 6.96 6.97 5084 412 393 394
3.2 Using Debit Cards $ 59965.70 4883.53 4444.02 4412.00 3046987 250646 238925 239172
3.3 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 245.16 18.75 18.11 18.09 11005 879 904 906
4. Cash Withdrawal at PoS $ (4.1 to 4.2) 3.58 0.27 0.14 0.15 37 3 2 2
4.1 Using Debit Cards $ 3.33 0.24 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 @ 11640.55 915.09 926.03 956.67 296622 23246 24083 24737
5.1 AePS @ 11640.55 915.09 926.03 956.67 296622 23246 24083 24737

PART III - Payment Infrastructures (Lakh)
System As on March 2025 2025 2026
Jan. Dec. Jan.
1 2 3 4
Payment System Infrastructures        
1. Number of Cards (1.1 to 1.2) 11006.97 10909.12 11501.38 11544.09
1.1 Credit Cards 1098.85 1088.73 1157.92 1166.52
1.2 Debit Cards 9908.12 9820.39 10343.46 10377.57
2. Number of PPIs @ (2.1 to 2.2) 13401.46 13466.32 20873.16 22053.38
2.1 Wallets @ 8678.44 8957.73 16170.73 17268.45
2.2 Cards @ 4723.02 4508.59 4702.43 4784.92
3. Number of ATMs (3.1 to 3.2) 2.56 2.57 2.50 2.52
3.1 Bank owned ATMs $ 2.20 2.21 2.13 2.14
3.2 White Label ATMs $ 0.36 0.36 0.37 0.38
4. Number of Micro ATMs @ 14.82 14.74 14.15 13.92
5. Number of PoS Terminals 110.98 103.53 114.75 115.25
6. Bharat QR @ 67.18 64.43 58.90 57.97
7. UPI QR * 6579.30 6401.65 7313.65 7384.20
@ : 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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