UPI

9 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 26, 2025 by Vijay Rajagopal · across every show →

Everything said about UPI, oldest first

Aug 26, 2025 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Rajagopal: UPI processes around 25 billion transactions each month
“Just on UPI we process around twenty five billion transactions a month.”
Vijay Rajagopal Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 5:29 EP14: Reimagining Innovation in the world of everyday Finance ft. Vijay Rajagopal
Aug 26, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rajagopal: India Credit Card Spends Grow While Overall Transaction Share Declines
“So even if you look at India, while absolute credit card volumes and spends have been growing, the share has been declined, right? Because the payment transactions share has been going on the UPI side.”
Vijay Rajagopal Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 47:27 EP14: Reimagining Innovation in the world of everyday Finance ft. Vijay Rajagopal
Aug 26, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Rajagopal: Brazil's Pix and Singapore's PayNow copied UPI but cost users money
“So in some sense, I would say, if you look at a PICS in Brazil, or if you look at a PAYNOW in Singapore, they have largely been modeled on UPI. The interesting thing, they are not zero cost yet, right? You know, while we have a zero MDR structure.”
Vijay Rajagopal Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 45:45 EP14: Reimagining Innovation in the world of everyday Finance ft. Vijay Rajagopal
Aug 26, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rajagopal: UPI costs are subsidized by government and borne by banks
“And to be really accurate, there is cost in the UPI system today, which is borne by the banks. So it is, Not zero cost for everybody, but it's zero cost for the user and the merchant, right? To be really accurate. And that caused by the banks, there is also a …”
Vijay Rajagopal Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 45:59 EP14: Reimagining Innovation in the world of everyday Finance ft. Vijay Rajagopal
Aug 26, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Rajagopal: UPI volume is 10x what credit cards achieved over two decades
“And that's a scale that we have achieved, which is more than 10 times what credit cards has achieved over more than two decades, right?”
Vijay Rajagopal Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 5:35 EP14: Reimagining Innovation in the world of everyday Finance ft. Vijay Rajagopal
Apr 20, 2026 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Chatterjee: UPI was the first local rail integrated into Revolut
“One, the fact that UPI is the first local rail that we integrated into our product, which gave us the confidence that we can actually integrate Revolut into local payment rails in various countries, right?”
Paroma Chatterjee Apr 20, 2026 ▶ 29:21 S2EP9: Building for a Billion - India’s Future with Revolut ft. Paroma Chatterjee
Apr 20, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Chatterjee: UPI has surpassed 500 million users in India
“More than five hundred million customers at last.”
Paroma Chatterjee Apr 20, 2026 ▶ 13:32 S2EP9: Building for a Billion - India’s Future with Revolut ft. Paroma Chatterjee
Apr 20, 2026
Disclosure
Chatterjee: Revolut India integrates digital wallet accounts with UPI on day one
“This account is integrated with UPI on day one.”
Paroma Chatterjee Apr 20, 2026 ▶ 14:38 S2EP9: Building for a Billion - India’s Future with Revolut ft. Paroma Chatterjee
May 14, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Ranjan: Google Pay Team Handed US Fed A Playbook Based On India
“When we did Google Pay here, we wrote a white paper and gave it to US feds saying, look, this is how things should work, right? That is the, it's an example to the rest of the world that this is how you should do it.”
Peeyush Ranjan May 14, 2026 ▶ 1:10:31 S2 Ep10: How to Learn with the New Rules of AI ft. Peeyush Ranjan
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