PayTech 2023-24 IIMS
PayTech 2023-24 IIMS
PayTech 2023-24 IIMS
Payments /
PayTech
Dr. Neeraj Amarnani
Financial Services Framework
Decision Support
Infrastructure
Legal framework
Financial Services Framework - Payments
Decision Support
Infrastructure
Legal framework
Money has three fundamental
and complementary roles.
• As a unit of account: a yardstick that
eases comparison of prices across
Essence of things that we buy and promises
that we make.
Money • A medium of exchange: that is
universally acceptable
• A store of value: enabling users to
transfer purchasing power to the
future.
Use Cases of Money
• Immediate payments:
• Cash and Access to cash whenever needed – remember, ATMs weren’t always
around. In fact first ATM introduced in 1967
• Cards (Credit, much later Debit) – they weren’t always around either! 1950/’58
• Online Payments
• Purchase for goods and services online PayPal, AliPay, Paytm
• International Transfers
• Remittances SWIFT, Stripe, Wise, Payoneer
• Physical Goods payments (not in cash)
• Point of Sales Square (Block), Mobikwik
• Mobile payments PayTM, Google Pay
• P2P mPesa, Venmo, GPay, PhonePe, Paytm
Currency
Taxonomy
Four-way Classification
• Central Bank Issued / or
privately circulated
• Peer-to-peer or only for
institutions / central bank
• Electronic or Physical
• Universally accessible or
limited circulation
Money Flower with eg.
PokeCoins
E-gold
mPesa, CADcoin
Venmo, PayTM
• Block (Square)
• Fampay
• Mswipe
• Open.Money
Select B2B Paytech companies
• Coupa
• Combined payments and cash management service
• Business Spend Management
• Stripe
• Internet payments infrastructure
• Fraud mitigation, sending invoices, Issue virtual and physical cards, Checkout friction
reduction, Finance for business, Business spend management
• EVO Payments
• Integrated global payments systems
• 150+ transaction currencies; Partnerships with prominent banks
• PineLabs
• POS payment systems | Payment Gateway facilities
Global Payment Trends
Some Country Insights
Source: FIS
Global Payments
Report, 2023
Source: FIS Global
Payments Report, 2021
Select Key Trends
• A2A (Account to Account) payments – drastic increase
• Driven by Real time payment rails, and seeing very large contributions from global
developments such as UPI in India
• Credit Card usage remains strong
• Resurgence in discretionary spending, travel and back-end linkages to BNPL
• Digital wallets: leading payment method globally both in e-com and POS
• become major e-com payment method in Europe and US too
• Cash continues to decline, but still relevant
• BNPL evolves into next stage, Sustained by consumer interest in alternative
credit
• Challenges from inflation, higher interest rates and regulators
The Indian
Context