RBI comes up with Digital Payments Index
   Date :02-Jan-2021

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THE Reserve Bank of India on Friday said it has constructed a composite Digital Payments Index (DPI) with March 2018 as the base period to capture the extent of digitisation of payments across the country. “The DPI for March 2019 and March 2020 work out to 153.47 and 207.84, respectively, indicating (an) appreciable growth,” it said in a statement.
 
Going forward, RBI-DPI will be published on the central bank’s website on a semi-annual basis from March 2021 onwards with a lag of four months. RBI-DPI comprises of five broad parameters that enable measurement of deepening and penetration of digital payments over different time periods. The parameters are payment enablers (weight 25 pcer cent), payment infrastructure demand-side factors (10 pc), payment infrastructure – supply-side factors (15 pc), payment performance (45 pc) and consumer centricity (5 pc).