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Digital Payments To Grow At 26 % CAGR During 2016-2020

India is expected to witness a six-fold growth in digital transactions during 2017-18.

A customer enters his pin number while making a chip and pin payment using a Visa Inc. payment card (Photograph: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg)
A customer enters his pin number while making a chip and pin payment using a Visa Inc. payment card (Photograph: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg)

Initiatives of the government and the National Payments Council of India will help non- cash transactions grow at a CAGR of 26.2 percent during 2016 -2020, said a report.

Quoting NPCI, the report said India is expected to witness a six-fold growth in digital transactions to reach 25 billion transactions during 2017-18, up from 4 billion in 2015-16.

India could potentially make its way into the global top 10 markets in terms of non-cash transaction volumes, as per the World Payment Report, 2017 jointly commissioned by Capgemini and BNP Paribas.

Initiatives of the Indian Government and the National Payments Council of India (NPCI) will help non-cash transactions to grow at a CAGR of 26.2 percent during 2016- 2020.
World Payment Report, 2017

According to the report, Emerging Asia, led by China and India, is projected to grow 30.9 percent in volumes.

The report also estimates that volumes generated by emerging economies will grow by 19.6 percent, or three-times the rate of mature economies.