{ "meta": { "dossier": "payments", "source": "Reserve Bank of India, Payment System Indicators (via DBIE)", "vintage": "2026-10-10", "mock": false, "geo": "IND", "releaseDate": null, "revisionPolicy": "Monthly figures are provisional when first printed and may be revised in later Bulletins; the RBI re-organised the table in November 2019, and the two layouts are kept apart.", "latestPeriod": "2026-07", "frequency": "monthly", "base": "re-organised table (from November 2019)", "unit": "count", "coverage": "Payment infrastructure at the end of each month since November 2019: credit and debit cards, wallets and prepaid cards, ATMs (bank-owned and white-label), micro ATMs, PoS terminals, Bharat QR and UPI QR codes", "note": "RBI Bulletin Table 45 via DBIE report 612. Counts of instruments and devices outstanding at the end of the month. 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