Unified Payments Interface

Unified Payments Interface
Industry Finance
Founded 11th April, 2016
Founder Reserve Bank of India
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India[1]
Products Online platform for transactions
Parent National Payments Corporation of India
Website Official site

Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is a system that powers multiple bank accounts (of participating banks), several banking services features like fund transfer (P2P), and merchant payments in a single mobile application.[2] UPI was launched by National Payments Corporation of India with Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) vision of migrating towards a 'less-cash' and more digital society. UPI has built on the Immediate Payment Service(IMPS) platform.

UPI platform can be used for:

How it works

Any smartphone user who has an account with a UPI-partnered bank can download a UPI app.

Registration in UPI enabled application: [3]

Steps for Registration:

   1. User downloads the UPI application from the App Store / Banks website.
   2. User creates their profile by entering details like name, virtual id (payment address), password etc.
   3. User goes to “Add/Link/Manage Bank Account” option and links the bank and account number with the virtual id

Generating M – PIN:

   1. User selects the bank account from which they want to initiate the transaction
   2. User clicks on required option

Currently, the following 26 banks[4] provide UPI-based services:

Banks live as PSP and Issuer:

  1. Andhra Bank
  2. Axis Bank
  3. Bank of Maharashtra
  4. Canara Bank
  5. Catholic Syrian Bank
  6. DCB Bank
  7. Karnataka Bank
  8. Union Bank of India
  9. United Bank of India
  10. Vijaya Bank
  11. Punjab National Bank
  12. Oriental Bank of Commerce
  13. TJSB Sahakari Bank
  14. Federal Bank
  15. ICICI Bank
  16. UCO Bank
  17. South Indian Bank
  18. HDFC Bank
  19. State Bank of India
  20. Standard Chartered Bank India

Banks live as Issuer:

  1. Yes Bank
  2. RBL Bank
  3. IDFC Bank
  4. IDBI Bank
  5. Allahabad Bank
  6. Kotak Mahindra Bank

Initially, 29 banks had tied up with NPCI for the launch. However, only 21 banks have been able to meet the criteria so far.

See also

References

  1. "National Payments Corporation of India". Npci.org.in. Retrieved 2011-03-16.
  2. "Unified Payments Interface". www.npci.org.in. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  3. "Unified Payments Interface". NPCI.
  4. "UPI".

External Links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/4/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.