The deployment of the retail digital rupee pilot is nearly complete, according to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the nation’s central bank.
The digital rupee is intended to supplement current payment systems rather than take their place of them, according to the Economic Times of India report. According to people with knowledge of the situation, the study also mentioned that the retail CBDC had been created to be compatible with current payment methods.
The unified payments interface (UPI) system of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which will host the CBDC platform, was mentioned in the report.
A UPI address allows users to instantly transfer money to and from bank accounts, making UPI a popular payment method in India. Similar to email addresses, UPI addresses are connected to bank accounts.
The wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot was started by the RBI on November 1 to evaluate its application in settling transactions involving government securities. The retail digital rupee pilot, according to the RBI at the time, would be introduced within a month.
In the beginning, the retail CBDC will be sold alone. The digital rupee will eventually be incorporated into the current mobile and internet banking systems, though.
According to the ETI report, the RBI wants each bank taking part in the trial to test the retail CBDC among 10,000 to 50,000 consumers. The CBDC initiative will eventually encompass the whole financial sector, the paper claims.
To enable users to pay merchants with the digital rupee, the banks taking part in the CBDC trial have partnered with last-mile payment service providers such as PayNearby and Bankit.
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