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Credit line on UPI could surpass the $1 trillion in transaction value by 2030, Zeta a banking tech unicorn has forecasted. The credit line provides 80% of pre-approved, inactive credit customers on the UPI network with instant access to credit lines. After it was first launched in August 2016, UPI took a little over 3 years to reach 1 billion transactions in a month. Less than 5 years later, UPI clocked 13 billion transactions in April 2024 alone. Zeta has forecasted that UPI could also hit the $1 trillion mark by 2030.

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insurance coverage. “Historically, only a small percentage of MSMEs provided healthcare benefits to their employees as most insurers required a minimum number of employees to extend insurance coverage,” says Yogesh Agarwal, Founder & CEO, Onsurity. “Offering comprehensive healthcare benefits is necessary to help businesses differentiate themselves in a competitive talent market.” Only 5-7% of small businesses provide health insurance coverage to their employees, say industry observers.

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Reserve Bank of India allowed foreign currency cards on RuPay. In FY24, there were 968 million transactions via RuPay cards, lower than 1.26 billion in FY23. The quantum of transactions remained unchanged at ₹2.4 trillion across both years.

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Karnataka Bank and financial services company Navi Technologies have announced the launch of credit line on UPI, an offering by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). The private sector lender will be offering credit lines through a strategic partnership with Navi, marking Karnataka Bank as one of the early adopters of this next-gen credit product. «This is currently offered to a closed group of select users who are pre-qualified for the product, and it will be launched to more users based on customer feedback,» a release said. It further said the bank is starting with a short-term monthly loan product and is in discussions for adding other variants, like EMI facilities, and working capital credit lines in the future, aligned to customers evolving needs.

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Online vendors have generated 15.8 million jobs in India, including 3.5 million for women, with about 1.76 million retail enterprises participating in e-commerce activity, says a report released on Wednesday. The report 'Assessing the Net Impact of e-Commerce on Employment and Consumer Welfare in India' was launched by Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal. «Plugging in data from our survey, we estimate that online vendors generate 15.8 million jobs, including 3.5 million jobs for women,» the report prepared by Pahle India Foundation (PIF), a Delhi-based policy research institute, said. E-commerce, according to the report, has been a key driver of employment generation In India. On an average, online vendors employ 54 per cent more people and almost twice the number of female employees, compared to offline vendors.

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kirana stores. After e-commerce, now quick commerce is eating into India's large kirana sector which comprises nearly 12 million stores, selling groceries and personal care and other items. People are starting to shift some of their grocery shopping from local stores to quick commerce platforms such as Blinkit, Instamart, Zepto and BB Now, which are often able to offer products 10%-15% cheaper than local stores. When time is money, especially in urban areas, people are willing to pay a little more to save on it. When quick commerce gained shape in India during the Covid pandemic, a large section of the industry had written it off. Their argument was that Indian consumers were not going to pay convenience fees, no matter what. Some even insisted that consumers would happily wait for a few hours or even a day, if that meant they would get their orders delivered free. Today, one after the other, leading FMCG companies in their 2023-24 earnings report state that quick commerce is now not just their fastest growing channel, it is what is driving their e-commerce business growth itself, ET has reported.