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Apple Pay Reached India With One Bank's Credit Cards. UPI Handled 24.5 Billion Payments in August.

Apple Pay went live in India on Tuesday. Apple's own India page names Axis credit cards as the cards that can currently be used. RuPay, the domestic card network, is not supported. The competition is UPI, which processed 24.51 billion payments in August at an average of about Rs 1,217 each.

By Cory Chamberlain · 15 minutes ago

The Long View

The Terms Were Fixed All Along. The Surprise Was That They Ended.

HDFC Bank's chief executive will not seek reappointment when his term expires in two months. Kotak Mahindra's declined an extension in June, with his three-year term ending on 31 December. Both were described as surprises. Both end dates have been known since the day each man started.

By Cory Chamberlain · September 5, 2026