Welcome to our Podcast series, Coffee with the Council. I am Nitin Bhatnagar, Regional Director of India and South Asia for the PCI Security Standards Council. India’s digital payment market is expected to grow by $10 trillion by 2026. In a span of just six years, India, primarily a cash-based economy, now leads the world in real time digital payments, accounting for almost 40% of all such transactions. The mass adoption of UPI and cardless payments during the COVID-19 pandemic has extended far beyond the urban, to even rural India, an effect that left the experts in amazement.
