Payment and Settlement Systems

Reserve Bank of India has been actively pursuing interlinking of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) with fast payment systems of other jurisdictions to promote cross-border payments. These initiatives are aligned with the G20 Roadmap for enhancing cross-border payments, with a focus on cheaper, efficient, more transparent and more accessible remittances.

The Reserve Bank of India issued the ‘Framework for Recognition of Self-Regulatory Organisation (SRO) for Payment System Operators (PSOs)’ on October 22, 2020, and an ‘Omnibus framework for recognition of SROs for Regulated Entities of the Reserve Bank’ on March 21, 2024 inviting interested groups

Analysis of the performance under the Citizen’s Charter during the month of October 2025 has been carried out, and the summary thereof is given below –

The Reserve Bank of India today placed on its website a draft circular on Guidelines to facilitate faster cross-border inward payments. Comments / feedback on the draft Circular are invited from banks by November 19, 2025. The comments/ feedback may be submitted through the link under the ‘Connect2Regulate’ Section available on the Reserve Bank’s website. Comments may alternatively be forwarded to:

The Reserve Bank has today published the half-yearly Payment System Report, June 2025. This report, in addition to analysing the trends in payment transactions carried out using various payment systems in India during the last six calendar years up to the first half of calendar year 2025, covers important developments in the payment ecosystem and an in-depth analysis of the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system.

Analysis of the performance under the Citizen’s Charter during the month of September 2025 has been carried out and the summary thereof is given below –

The recent amendments to Section 3 of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 (PSS Act, 2007) carried out, vide the Finance Act, 2017 came into effect from May 9, 2025, with issue of the Gazette Notification dated May 06, 2025, by Department of Financial Services, Government of India. With the notification, the erstwhile Board for Regulation and Supervision of Payment and Settlement Systems (BPSS), a committee of the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India, has been replaced with the Payments Regulatory Board from May 9, 2025. 2. The Payments Regulatory Board has been constituted under Section 3 (2) of PSS Act, 2007 consisting of the following members:

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has today issued Reserve Bank of India (Regulation of Payment Aggregators) Directions, 2025. RBI had issued draft directions on regulation of Payment Aggregators on April 16, 2024, for stakeholder comments. The draft directions proposed a framework for regulation of Payment Aggregators (PAs) that handle proximity / face-to-face payments. It also proposed certain changes to the extant directions to PAs. As part of the stakeholder consultation exercise, inputs were received from PAs, banks, other payment system providers, industry associations, law firms, individuals, etc. The inputs received were examined and suitably incorporated in the Directions.

A comprehensive review of the various services offered by Reserve Bank of India under Citizens’ Charter and Regulatory Approvals was undertaken and the revised Citizen’s Charter was released on July 1, 2025. 2. An analysis of the performance under

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been publishing a composite Reserve Bank of India – Digital Payments Index (RBI-DPI) since January 1, 2021 with March 2018 as base to capture the extent of digitisation of payments across the country. The index for March 2025 stands