25-Apr-2024
Current Affairs (25th April, 2024)
Current Affairs
PayU Received RBI’s In-Principle Approval as Payment Aggregator
- PayU Payments has received Reserve Bank of India's in-principle approval to operate as a payment aggregator and onboard new merchants onto its platform.
- PayU is a payment gateway that also offers services including buy-now-pay-later like Razorpay and PhonePe.
BharatPe Launched BharatPe One
- BharatPe on Tuesday launched BharatPe One which is an all-in-one payment product that integrates POS, QR code, and speaker into one device.
- It is designed to streamline transactions for merchants by offering versatile payment acceptance options including dynamic and static QR code, tap-and-pay and traditional card payment options, across a wide range of debit and credit cards.
Razorpay and Airtel Payments Bank Launched UPI Switch
- Razorpay and Airtel Payments Bank have unveiled the UPI Switch which is a cloud-based infrastructure designed to revolutionize the landscape of digital payments.
- UPI Switch aims to provide businesses with 5X faster access to UPI innovations.
Reliance Jio Becomes World's Largest Mobile Operator in Data Traffic
- Reliance Jio’s success, which has now become the world's largest mobile operator in terms of data traffic by surpassing of China Mobile.
- As of March 2024, Jio boasts a subscriber base of 481.8 million, out of which 108 million subscribers are on Jio's True5G Standalone network.