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45. Payment System Indicators
Date : Jul 22, 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
May Apr. May May Apr. May
1 2 3 4 4 5 6 7
A. Settlement Systems                
Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs)                
1. CCIL Operated Systems (1.1 to 1.3) 56.84 5.48 4.65 4.87 367014602 29656042 32290516 32125386
1.1 Govt. Securities Clearing (1.1.1 to 1.1.3) 20.08 1.94 1.67 1.71 214487317 17500816 16817588 18071700
1.1.1 Outright 11.76 1.28 0.99 1.03 17320069 1875057 1351982 1254908
1.1.2 Repo 5.62 0.45 0.46 0.43 93385356 7645792 6706602 6790220
1.1.3 Tri-party Repo 2.70 0.21 0.22 0.25 103781892 7979967 8759004 10026571
1.2 Forex Clearing 35.44 3.44 2.81 2.96 141483010 11363617 14216020 12462096
1.3 Rupee Derivatives @ 1.32 0.10 0.16 0.21 11044275 791608 1256908 1591591
B. Payment Systems                
I. Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) - - - - - - - -
1. Credit Transfers - RTGS (1.1 to 1.2) 3499.79 274.71 315.56 315.38 227372648 17013770 19248590 18618676
1.1 Customer Transactions 3485.43 273.46 314.47 314.27 206929117 15219873 17613014 17246274
1.2 Interbank Transactions 14.36 1.25 1.09 1.11 20443531 1793897 1635576 1372402
II. Retail                
2. Credit Transfers - Retail (2.1 to 2.6) 2618738.01 203656.72 238826.91 246885.68 91939186 7146649 8240533 8135516
2.1 AePS (Fund Transfers) @ 3.28 0.31 0.27 0.24 170 17 17 14
2.2 APBS $ 33854.21 2786.17 2372.04 2048.40 717040 50985 44625 62137
2.3 IMPS 49431.09 4636.60 3624.87 3580.97 7669929 640867 700909 695701
2.4 NACH Cr $ 18284.42 1243.57 1031.28 740.50 1902293 147380 167523 154628
2.5 NEFT 100996.16 8215.47 8330.47 8496.29 50226505 3793103 4424471 4232611
2.6 UPI @ 2416168.86 186774.60 223467.97 232019.28 31423250 2514297 2902988 2990424
2.6.1 of which USSD @ 14.31 1.79 1.15 1.28 188 33 12 13
3. Debit Transfers and Direct Debits (3.1 to 3.3) 23471.34 1895.74 2031.08 2087.74 2697355 206368 241715 247007
3.1 BHIM Aadhaar Pay @ 231.96 19.51 21.26 27.29 7739 641 850 968
3.2 NACH Dr $ 21614.19 1723.65 1883.26 1897.25 2687459 205535 240687 245849
3.3 NETC (linked to bank account) @ 1625.19 152.58 126.56 163.20 2157 192 178 190
4. Card Payments (4.1 to 4.2) 73039.76 5827.40 6570.42 6953.63 2807946 226810 234177 238163
4.1 Credit Cards (4.1.1 to 4.1.2) 60237.64 4676.93 5595.27 5955.02 2362471 189832 197274 202742
4.1.1 PoS based $ 30153.21 2359.14 2755.56 2903.64 885019 69607 73835 76095
4.1.2 Others $ 30084.43 2317.79 2839.71 3051.38 1477452 120224 123439 126647
4.2 Debit Cards (4.2.1 to 4.2.2) 12802.12 1150.47 975.14 998.62 445475 36978 36903 35420
4.2.1 PoS based $ 9601.85 861.57 718.05 737.79 293537 24735 24269 22187
4.2.2 Others $ 3200.27 288.90 257.09 260.83 151938 12243 12633 13233
5. Prepaid Payment Instruments (5.1 to 5.2) 98699.47 7106.39 8573.06 9022.57 286429 20722 28125 29443
5.1 Wallets 78570.94 5474.25 6768.34 7132.74 223016 16668 22201 22677
5.2 Cards (5.2.1 to 5.2.2) 20128.53 1632.13 1804.72 1889.82 63414 4053 5924 6766
5.2.1 PoS based $ 8356.49 650.54 809.55 781.94 14373 981 1244 1408
5.2.2 Others $ 11772.04 981.59 995.17 1107.88 49041 3072 4680 5358
6. Paper-based Instruments (6.1 to 6.2) 5587.83 481.93 454.32 419.39 7147568 596239 693190 596835
6.1 CTS (NPCI Managed) 5587.83 481.93 454.32 419.39 7147568 596239 693190 596835
6.2 Others 0.00
Total - Retail Payments (2+3+4+5+6) 2819536.40 218968.18 256455.78 265369.01 104878484 8196787 9437739 9246964
Total Payments (1+2+3+4+5+6) 2823036.19 219242.89 256771.34 265684.39 332251133 25210557 28686328 27865640
Total Digital Payments (1+2+3+4+5) 2817448.36 218760.96 256317.02 265265.00 325103565 24614318 27993139 27268805

PART II - Payment Modes and Channels
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2025-26 2025 2026 FY 2025-26 2025 2026
May Apr. May May Apr. May
1 2 3 4 4 5 6 7
A. Other Payment Channels                
1. Mobile Payments (mobile app based) (1.1 to 1.2) 2226710.88 173238.86 206898.70 199200.35 45558548 3641732 4189507 3951120
1.1 Intra-bank $ 122837.81 9743.76 10611.15 10985.40 7917883 638768 711134 704115
1.2 Inter-bank $ 2103873.07 163495.10 196287.56 188214.95 37640666 3002964 3478373 3247005
2. Internet Payments (Netbanking / Internet Browser Based) @ (2.1 to 2.2) 44541.07 3668.66 3504.17 3095.94 158930351 11661241 13660002 11240573
2.1 Intra-bank @ 10212.76 851.54 853.50 629.92 83681438 6068349 7063192 5184996
2.2 Inter-bank @ 34328.30 2817.12 2650.67 2466.02 75248914 5592892 6596810 6055576
B. ATMs                
3. Cash Withdrawal at ATMs $ (3.1 to 3.3) 53689.48 4604.61 4126.95 4176.39 2873737 246201 231125 231340
3.1 Using Credit Cards $ 81.07 6.70 6.40 6.42 4525 370 365 366
3.2 Using Debit Cards $ 53394.13 4579.88 4103.23 4152.55 2858626 244945 229849 230088
3.3 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 214.27 18.03 17.32 17.43 10586 886 911 885
4. Cash Withdrawal at PoS $ (4.1 to 4.2) 1.69 0.15 0.11 0.11 22 2 2 2
4.1 Using Debit Cards $ 1.39 0.13 0.08 0.08 18 1 2 1
4.2 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 0.30 0.03 0.03 0.03 4 0 0 0
5. Cash Withrawal at Micro ATMs @ 12126.36 1017.25 903.83 844.66 322744 27668 26214 23729
5.1 AePS @ 12126.36 1017.25 903.83 844.66 322744 27668 26214 23729

PART III - Payment Infrastructures (Lakh)
System As on March 2026 2025 2026
May Apr. May
1 2 3 4
Payment System Infrastructures        
1. Number of Cards (1.1 to 1.2) 11632.02 11114.19 11431.30 11483.62
1.1 Credit Cards 1186.34 1110.50 1194.59 1204.54
1.2 Debit Cards 10445.69 10003.70 10236.70 10279.08
2. Number of PPIs @ (2.1 to 2.2) 22992.54 13518.33 23185.47 22221.66
2.1 Wallets @ 18253.42 8696.94 18390.92 17596.04
2.2 Cards @ 4739.13 4821.38 4794.55 4625.61
3. Number of ATMs (3.1 to 3.2) 2.54 2.57 2.54 2.54
3.1 Bank owned ATMs $ 2.16 2.21 2.16 2.17
3.2 White Label ATMs $ 0.38 0.36 0.38 0.37
4. Number of Micro ATMs @ 13.90 14.78 13.68 13.58
5. Number of PoS Terminals 117.69 115.81 114.47 115.25
6. Bharat QR @ 56.33 66.42 56.17 56.05
7. UPI QR * 7612.17 6697.30 7708.29 7797.65
@ : 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 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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