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44. Payment System Indicators
Date : Nov 24, 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
Sep. Aug. Sep. Sep. Aug. Sep.
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 4.08 4.28 4.95 296218030 23840258 28151946 30270023
1.1 Govt. Securities Clearing (1.1.1 to 1.1.3) 17.87 1.57 1.50 1.75 185733719 14750412 16614170 18003263
1.1.1 Outright 10.56 0.99 0.81 1.04 16056018 1468346 1240951 1499643
1.1.2 Repo 4.72 0.37 0.47 0.48 77286611 6038102 7489700 7926471
1.1.3 Tri-party Repo 2.58 0.21 0.22 0.23 92391091 7243965 7883520 8577149
1.2 Forex Clearing 28.06 2.40 2.69 3.11 100639565 8415273 10788097 11417001
1.3 Rupee Derivatives @ 1.46 0.11 0.10 0.09 9844746 674573 749679 849759
B. Payment Systems                
I Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) - - - - - - - -
1 Credit Transfers - RTGS (1.1 to 1.2) 3024.55 233.33 259.68 280.83 201387682 17786483 16371216 19836942
1.1 Customer Transactions 3010.32 232.21 258.52 279.64 181153129 16027655 14993007 18220475
1.2 Interbank Transactions 14.23 1.12 1.16 1.19 20234553 1758828 1378209 1616467
II Retail                
2 Credit Transfers - Retail (2.1 to 2.6) 2061014.91 166626.30 218816.17 213074.92 79781976 6384754 7102303 7543380
2.1 AePS (Fund Transfers) @ 3.64 0.30 0.31 0.26 190 14 16 12
2.2 APBS $ 32964.43 2342.41 3817.08 2542.90 554034 35550 66150 41746
2.3 IMPS 56249.68 4299.36 4772.62 3943.79 7139110 565233 597549 596847
2.4 NACH Cr $ 16938.86 1657.93 1854.46 1850.43 1670223 122079 167856 149729
2.5 NEFT 96198.05 7908.83 8288.60 8403.21 44361464 3597885 3785260 4265310
2.6 UPI @ 1858660.25 150417.47 200083.10 196334.33 26056955 2063995 2485473 2489737
2.6.1 of which USSD @ 17.24 1.31 0.69 0.94 185 14 7 10
3 Debit Transfers and Direct Debits (3.1 to 3.3) 21659.95 1805.36 1929.02 1926.97 2208583 180707 214928 222919
3.1 BHIM Aadhaar Pay @ 230.08 18.81 25.38 18.90 6907 568 718 591
3.2 NACH Dr $ 19762.28 1651.69 1764.13 1786.47 2199327 179945 214031 222164
3.3 NETC (linked to bank account) @ 1667.59 134.86 139.51 121.60 2349 193 178 164
4 Card Payments (4.1 to 4.2) 63861.15 5275.26 6056.57 5999.81 2605110 216304 228576 253483
4.1 Credit Cards (4.1.1 to 4.1.2) 47740.76 3921.62 4935.77 4952.41 2109197 176202 191170 216707
4.1.1 PoS based $ 24571.10 1978.05 2501.63 2416.15 795022 60857 72753 72544
4.1.2 Others $ 23169.66 1943.57 2434.15 2536.26 1314175 115345 118417 144163
4.2 Debit Cards (4.2.1 to 4.2.1 ) 16120.39 1353.64 1120.80 1047.40 495914 40102 37406 36776
4.2.1 PoS based $ 11980.33 995.05 843.59 777.57 332556 25777 24663 22773
4.2.2 Others $ 4140.06 358.59 277.21 269.83 163358 14325 12743 14003
5 Prepaid Payment Instruments (5.1 to 5.2) 70254.08 5476.69 7966.16 8551.51 216751 17489 22253 22637
5.1 Wallets 52898.40 4054.95 6246.19 6871.58 154066 11889 17169 17183
5.2 Cards (5.2.1 to 5.2.2) 17355.68 1421.74 1719.97 1679.93 62686 5600 5083 5454
5.2.1 PoS based $ 8240.14 721.65 669.51 688.72 11512 858 1030 1092
5.2.2 Others $ 9115.54 700.09 1050.45 991.22 51174 4743 4054 4362
6 Paper-based Instruments (6.1 to 6.2) 6095.38 484.94 446.03 464.86 7113350 543387 540025 570467
6.1 CTS (NPCI Managed) 6095.38 484.94 446.03 464.86 7113350 543387 540025 570467
6.2 Others 0.00
Total - Retail Payments (2+3+4+5+6) 2222885.46 179668.57 235213.95 230018.07 91925771 7342641 8108084 8612885
Total Payments (1+2+3+4+5+6) 2225910.01 179901.90 235473.63 230298.90 293313453 25129124 24479300 28449827
Total Digital Payments (1+2+3+4+5) 2219814.63 179416.96 235027.60 229834.04 286200103 24585737 23939275 27879361

PART II - Payment Modes and Channels
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2024-25 2024 2025 FY 2024-25 2024 2025
Sep. Aug. Sep. Sep. Aug. Sep.
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 144028.12 184421.97 181008.61 39206221 3157064 3539156 3618114
1.1 Intra-bank $ 110801.96 10596.33 10513.94 10469.49 7207439 617325 605043 633733
1.2 Inter-bank $ 1646174.95 133431.79 173908.03 170539.12 31998782 2539739 2934113 2984381
2 Internet Payments (Netbanking / Internet Browser Based) @ (2.1 to 2.2) 47478.09 3911.28 3638.12 3755.37 131858133 11251665 11554723 13794692
2.1 Intra-bank @ 13056.37 1103.93 798.11 853.80 69086996 5946842 6020479 7091903
2.2 Inter-bank @ 34421.72 2807.35 2840.01 2901.57 62771136 5304823 5534243 6702789
B. ATMs                
3 Cash Withdrawal at ATMs $ (3.1 to 3.3) 60308.11 4949.81 4625.94 4395.46 3063077 245223 240098 230952
3.1 Using Credit Cards $ 97.25 8.02 6.71 6.69 5084 417 366 369
3.2 Using Debit Cards $ 59965.70 4922.18 4601.37 4370.89 3046987 243930 238883 229713
3.3 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 245.16 19.62 17.86 17.89 11005 876 849 870
4 Cash Withdrawal at PoS $ (4.1 to 4.2) 3.58 0.27 0.13 0.12 37 3 1 2
4.1 Using Debit Cards $ 3.33 0.25 0.10 0.10 35 3 1 1
4.2 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 0.25 0.01 0.02 0.02 3 0 0 0
5 Cash Withrawal at Micro ATMs @ 11640.55 975.12 1245.48 1034.96 296622 23389 31157 26356
5.1 AePS @ 11640.55 975.12 1245.48 1034.96 296622 23389 31157 26356

PART III - Payment Infrastructures (Lakh)
System As on March 2025 2024 2025
Sep. Aug. Sep.
1 2 3 4
Payment System Infrastructures        
1 Number of Cards (1.1 to 1.2) 11006.97 10793.85 11303.57 11382.14
1.1 Credit Cards 1098.85 1061.03 1123.14 1133.90
1.2 Debit Cards 9908.12 9732.82 10180.42 10248.24
2 Number of PPIs @ (2.1 to 2.2) 13401.46 15339.99 14584.13 16180.40
2.1 Wallets @ 8678.44 11381.79 9692.18 11478.95
2.2 Cards @ 4723.02 3958.20 4891.95 4701.45
3 Number of ATMs (3.1 to 3.2) 2.56 2.55 2.49 2.49
3.1 Bank owned ATMs $ 2.20 2.20 2.12 2.12
3.2 White Label ATMs $ 0.36 0.35 0.36 0.37
4 Number of Micro ATMs @ 14.82 14.53 14.71 14.60
5 Number of PoS Terminals 110.98 93.43 119.73 121.24
6 Bharat QR @ 67.18 64.16 65.97 60.95
7 UPI QR * 6579.30 6070.79 6978.38 7090.66
@: 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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