Tuesday, November 5

Tag: UPI payment

Bank of Baroda Ties Up with Truecaller to Facilitate UPI Payments
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Bank of Baroda Ties Up with Truecaller to Facilitate UPI Payments

The popular Indian bank called Bank of Baroda has partnered with True Software Scandinavia, which is the parent company of the caller-ID app Truecaller. This move has been taken to enable digital payments using BHIM Baroda Pay UPI Service. Following the deal, those who register for payments under the UPI platform through the Truecaller app will get a @barodapay handle. This will be the address for receiving or sending money from their bank accounts. “We are getting in people who have been outside of the e- payments system in a frictionless way as many phone users already have Truecaller app installed,” BoB head fintech and new business initiatives Akhil Handa said. With this, Truecaller has launched its account-to-account payment service before Whatsapp. Truecaller’s service is fully ...
Infibeam Brings in Payment Acceptance Via UPI App Intent
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Infibeam Brings in Payment Acceptance Via UPI App Intent

Ahmedabad-based e-commerce conglomerate Infibeam has launched a new UPI App Intent for the acceptance of payments and flow for CCAvenue payment gateway merchants. UPI App Intent processes the transactions on native mobile apps with the help of existing UPI supported apps such as Tez, BHIM, PhonePe etc that are downloaded on the customer’s phone. This aims to provide the customers with a quick and smooth payment experience. Most of the UPI apps and even UPI enabled bank apps have added support for the app intent flow. This will avoid the need for having and installing multiple apps for making transactions. Vishwas Patel, Director of Infibeam Avenues said, “We had launched UPI acceptance for businesses and have been offering P2M payments (customer to merchant) on UPI since 2016. The c...