Market Trends of India Payment Gateway Industry
This section covers the major market trends shaping the India Payment Gateway Market according to our research experts:
Growing E-Commerce Transactions to Drive Market Growth
- The rise in e-commerce transactions is increasing the adoption of various payment gateways in India. According to the Indian Brand Equity Foundation, the Indian e-commerce industry has been on an upward growth trajectory and is expected to surpass the United States to become the second-largest e-commerce market in the world by 2034. The e-commerce market is expected to reach USD 64 billion by 2020 and USD 200 billion by 2026.
- Various government regulations are boosting the e-commerce industry in the country. In India, 100% FDI is permitted in B2B e-commerce. As per new guidelines on FDI in e-commerce, 100% FDI under automatic route is allowed in the marketplace model of e-commerce.
- As merchants and users avoid crowding in shops and neighborhood stores due to the coronavirus pandemic, merchants will start taking and managing orders digitally while requesting online payments. Flipkart-owned PhonePe and Google Pay allowed users to digitally identify neighborhood stores in a customer's locality, which were open and delivering while allowing users to pay them through their respective apps. According to the RBI, UPI transactions for April 2020 exceeded INR 1511 billion for retail payments.
- New vendors are entering the e-commerce space, which will boost the use of various payment gateways in the country. In May 2020, Reliance Industries launched an online extension of its grocery business under the JioMart brand across 200 cities. Products offered on JioMart include fruits and vegetables, dairy and baked goods, staples, snacks and branded foods, beverages, and personal and home care.
- <The surge in card transactions and other products like UPI has also been encouraging. As per RBI, the transaction value of debit cards stood at INR 6.8 trillion while the transaction value of credit cards stood at INR 7.1 trillion, registering YoY growth of 21% and 33%, respectively, in 2019 & 2020.
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Favourable Government Initiatives and Regulatory Standards to Boost the Market Growth
- The RBI's March 2020 guidelines on Payment Aggregators (PAs) and Payment Gateways (PGs) are crucial to driving the growth of payment gateways in India. Besides protecting customer funds (as per the RBI's 2009 Directions for Electronic Payment Transactions involving Intermediaries), the new guidelines also express recognition of PAs as authorized entities and grant flexibility and control with operations and funds management.
- Under the new norms of RBI, neither loans nor earning interest is permissible for the escrow account. The PA's operations will constitute designated payment systems. Interest can be accumulated over a 'core portion,' computed based on the average daily outstanding balance, and transferred to a separate account, thus creating a new avenue of income for the PA.
- Also, to boost payments through home-grown real-time payment systems, the government announced the exemption of Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) charges on transactions via UPI and RuPay payment modes.
- Besides, NPCI is planning to collaborate with the income tax department of India to enable tax payments using UPI. All these initiatives are expected to increase the adoption of payment gateways in India.
- As per Worldline, asset-lite technologies will emerge and establish merchant acquisition shortly. Asset-lite refers to the acceptance of all forms of digital payments, including cards, not on traditional POS machines but on merchants' mobile phones. On this technology platform, merchants using an app on their phones will be able to accept payments through QR and cards. This will further increase the adoption of digital payment all over India.
