The Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Shri Shaktikanta Das inaugurated the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH) today (March 24, 2022) in Bengaluru. The RBI has set up the RBIH as a Section 8 company under Companies Act, 2013, with an initial capital contribution of ₹100 crore to encourage and nurture financial innovation in a sustainable manner through an institutional set-up. The Hub has an independent Board with Shri Senapathy (Kris) Gopalakrishnan as the Chairm

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) read with clauses (b) to (f) of sub-section (2) of Section 38 of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act (PSS Act), 2007 (51 of 2007), the Reserve Bank of India has carried out amendments to regulation 5, regulation 6 (2) and the ‘schedule’ to regulation 5 of the Payment and Settlement Systems Regulations, 2008 (PSS Regulations). The amendments are carried out with the objective of reducing the compliance burden on

Reserve Bank of India has today, in exercise of its powers, inter alia, under section 35A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, directed Paytm Payments Bank Ltd to stop, with immediate effect, onboarding of new customers. The bank has also been directed to appoint an IT audit firm to conduct a comprehensive System Audit of its IT system. Onboarding of new customers by Paytm Payments Bank Ltd will be subject to specific permission to be granted by RBI after reviewing re

The Reserve Bank has launched two key initiatives today – (1) UPI123Pay – Option to make Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payments for feature phone users, and (2) DigiSaathi - a 24x7 Helpline to address the queries of digital payment users across products. While launching the two initiatives, RBI Governor Shri Shaktikanta Das highlighted the importance of these initiatives in enhancing the diversity, utility and transformational power of digital innovations in the co

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed monetary penalty of ₹14,83,000/- (Rupees fourteen lakh eighty three thousand only) on LivQuik Technology (India) Private Limited (the entity) for non-compliance with certain provisions of the Master Direction on Issuance and Operation of Prepaid Payment Instruments dated October 11, 2017 (updated as on November 17, 2020). The penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers vested in RBI under Section 30 of the Payment and Set

It has come to the notice of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) that sRide Tech Private Limited, a company having its registered office at 1201, Tower-7, Close North, Nirvana Sector-50, Gurgaon, Haryana, is operating a semi-closed (non-closed) pre-paid instrument (wallet) through its car-pooling app (application) ‘sRide’ without obtaining the required authorisation from RBI under the provisions of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007. As such, any person dealing with

The Reserve Bank had announced construction of a composite Reserve Bank of India – Digital Payments Index (RBI-DPI) with March 2018 as base to capture the extent of digitisation of payments across the country. The index for September 2021 stands at 304.06 as against 270.59 for March 2021. The RBI-DPI Index continues to demonstrate significant growth in adoption and deepening of digital payments across the country. The index series since inception is as under: Period R

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released the Annual Report of the Ombudsman Schemes for the year 2020-21 today, which has been prepared for the nine-month period, i.e., July 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021, in alignment with the change in the Financial Year of RBI from ‘July – June’ to ‘April – March' with effect from July 1, 2020. The Annual Report covers the activities under the Banking Ombudsman Scheme, 2006 (BOS), the Ombudsman Scheme for Non-Banking Financial Companies

The Reserve Bank of India, in exercise of the powers conferred on it under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, has cancelled the Certificate of Authorisation (CoA) of the below mentioned Payment System Operators (PSOs): Sr. No. Company's Name Registered Office Address CoA No. & Date Payment System Authorised Date of Cancellation Reason for Cancellation 1. Muthoot Vehicle & Asset Finance Limited 1st Floor, Cochin Dental Clinic Building, Market Road, T

The Reserve Bank has today placed on its website the ‘Framework for facilitating small value digital payments in offline mode’. The framework incorporates the feedback received from the pilot experiments on offline transactions conducted in different parts of the country during the period from September 2020 to June 2021. An offline digital payment means a transaction which does not require internet or telecom connectivity. Under this new framework, such payments can