who emerges as the Digital Payments Leader among UPI, credit Cards, debit cards, prepaid wallets and prepaid cards?
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A report from Q1 2022, by @WorldlineGlobal confirms that UPI P2M transactions emerged as the most preferred payment mode among consumers with a market share of 64% in volume and 50% in terms of value.
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๐Fast Facts for Q1 2022 Digital Payments๐ฎ๐ณ
๐ธ9.36 billion transactions amounting to
๐ฐINR 10.25 trillion
๐ณNumber of POS terminals: 6.07 Mn
โ๏ธNumber of Bharat QRs: 4.97 Mn
โ๏ธ Number of UPI QRs stood at 172.73 Mn
๐ณ Number of Credit Cards 73.6 Mn , Debit Cards 917.66 Mn
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๐ Report Highlights
โธ Credit cards accounted 7% of transactions but 26% of value indicating that customers still prefer to use their credit cards for high value transactions.
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โธ Debit cards account for 10% of transactions but 18% in value โ the volume and volume has shrunk from previous years and is likely because of the rise of UPI.
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โธShift from P2P to P2M in UPI: In Q1 2022, out of total UPI volumes, 56% transactions were P2P while 44% were P2M; in terms of value, P2M transactions generally contributed to about 19% of UPI transactions.
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๐ Report Highlights
โธ Move from Physical to Digital: Even though credit cards volume at POS & ecomm are nearly equal, value of ecomm transactions is significantly higher as compared with value of transactions at POS.
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โธConsumers are getting more comfortable to make online purchases via credit cards for big ticket size transactions while debit cards are more frequently used for small ticket size purchases at physical touchpoints
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โธ The Average Ticket size of Credit Card Transactions is 5x that of a UPI P2M transaction, Indicating usage of UPI for low value merchant payments
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โธ Mobile payments have become widespread and being used for small ticket transactions while internet browsers are the preferred mode for traditional shopping from e-commerce platforms
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โธ States and cities with the highest number of transactions at physical touch points in Q1 2022 for Worldline India
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โธ AePS (bank led model that enables interoperable financial inclusion) registered ~54% growth over Q1 2021, processing transactions worth INR 840.23 billion,โ of 33% over Q1 2021
A huge commendable effort to make #DigitalIndia truly inclusive
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โธ Bharat Bill Payment Central Unit (BBPCU) registered a growth rate of 117% and 134% in
volume and value respectively as compared with
Q1 2021.
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โธ Transactions Volume for National Electronic Toll Collection increased by 49% while value increased by 41%
total number of banks live with NETC FASTag were 36 while about 49.6 Mn NETC FASTags have been issued since inception
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Digital Rupee (eโน) Adoption is about to get a major boost! Fintech Firms to Join the Party!
The Reserve Bank of India @RBI is opening doors for non-bank payment system operators (PSOs) to offer CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) wallets.
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1/ Why Governments Are Bullish on CBDCs
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are catching the eye of governments around the world, and for good reason. One key feature driving this interest is programmability.
Unlike traditional cash, CBDCs can be designed to restrict how they are spent.
2/ Think of it like a digital coupon
Imagine a government distributing social security funds via CBDC.
These funds could be programmed to be used only for essential purchases like food or medicine at authorized stores.
This helps ensure the intended beneficiaries receive the support they need and reduces the risk of misuse.
According to Global Payments Report 2024, by Worldpay
โข Cash may be king in some parts of the world, but in India, digital wallets are rapidly becoming the preferred payment method,
โข This innovative shift, driven by the ubiquitous UPI (Unified Payment Interface), is transforming the world's most populous market and has the potential to reshape global payments.
๐ฃ๐ผ๐ฝ๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: 1,417,173,000 (A massive market primed for digital adoption)
๐๐๐ฃ ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ถ๐๐ฎ: $2,388 (Rising disposable income fuels e-commerce and digital payments)
๐-๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ถ๐๐ฒ: $117 billion (7th largest globally - and growing)
๐ฃ๐ข๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ถ๐๐ฒ: $2.02 trillion (3rd largest globally - ripe for digital disruption)
The UPI system is the cornerstone of India's digital payment revolution. This instant payment system is shattering records, with estimates suggesting it could reach 1 billion transactions per day by 2027.
The convenience and security of UPI are fueling the rise of digital wallets, with three players dominating the market: Google Pay, Paytm, and PhonePe.ย
These wallets account for a staggering 95% of UPI transactions and are rapidly becoming the go-to payment method for both online (56% of e-commerce value in 2023) and in-store purchases (projected to be 73% of POS spending by 2027).
UPI, Indiaโs real-time payment system, crossed 10 billion monthly transactions in August 2023.
But it has set an ambitious target of achieving 100 billion transactions per month in the near future.
How will it do that?
Read on to find out.
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1/ Lets dive into UPI Growth by Numbers first
UPI achieved a 55% YoY growth in transaction count and an impressive 41% YoY growth in transaction value. The adoption rate is skyrocketing!
2/ ๐ฃ๐ต๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฃ๐ฒ, ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ด๐น๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐๐บ accounted for ๐ต๐ฑ%+ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐จ๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ by value as of June 2023.
Of this, PhonePe accounted for 50%+, Google Pay for 33.5%, followed by Paytm at 11%.
The *next* UPI moment for India's Retail Digital Payments has been announced- Credit cards can now be linked to your UPI, starting with RuPay
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UPI is India's leader in digital payments with 60% market share in only 5 years of launch breaching the $1 trillion mark in payment volume only recently.
First, the upsides
๐ โ The ability for credit cards to 'ride on UPI' rails provides credit payment instruments the same ubiquity afforded to debit cards (via UPI) namely accessing a credit line at a POS by simply scanning a QR (cont)
UPI largest retail payment system in India and UPI volumes have exceeded ATM Withdrawals since April 2020: Economic Survey Of India 2021-2022. Could this finally mean India prefers #DigitalPayments over cash? A thread ๐
1. Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is currently the single largest retail payment system in the country in terms of volume of transactions, indicating its wide acceptance In December 2021, 4.6 billion transactions worth โน8.26 lakh crore were carried out by UPI.
2. 50% of transactions through UPI were below 200. In April-November 2021, UPI processed more than 24.26 million One Time Mandate create transaction of value โน44,381 crore.