In the story of India’s global fintech rise, few moments capture its transformative potential better than the recent linkage between India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Bahrain’s Fawri+ system. What began as a domestic innovation for instant retail payments has now evolved into an international bridge for real-time, low-cost cross-border transactions rewriting the rules of…
In a decisive move to fortify India’s rapidly growing digital payments ecosystem, the State Bank of India (SBI) and Bank of Baroda (BoB) are set to lead the creation of a new, technology-driven intelligence entity the Indian Digital Payments Intelligence Corporation (IDPIC). Conceived under the guidance of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the initiative…
The Reserve Bank of India’s Payment Systems Report for the half-year ended June 2025 marks a critical milestone in India’s decade-long journey toward a cash-lite economy. The document not only quantifies the rapid digitisation of payments but also underlines the institutional maturity of India’s payment governance a framework that now rivals global benchmarks in scale,…
Rajendra Bhalerao has been appointed as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Central Bank of India, marking a strategic addition to the bank’s leadership team at a time of heightened cybersecurity focus in the financial sector. With over two decades of expertise in information security, risk management, and digital payments security, Bhalerao will now…
