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SCN-GEO-001 · Observed 2025-12-31

emerging

DPI and Local Rail Convergence

Qualitative signpost review · no probability assigned

Bounded observation

NPCI's platform statistics record 62.803 billion UPI transactions in fiscal 2025-26 Q3, while USSD 2.0 recorded only 0.22 million in the same period. The payment rail has population-scale use, but this source does not establish convergence with identity, open-finance service initiation, interoperable offers and receipts or inclusion across access modes.

Trigger threshold

Move to observed in a market when payment, consent or identity, service-initiation, structured offer/mandate and dispute-receipt layers interoperate in production and show sustained merchant use and governed redress.

Counter-indicator

High UPI volume is one rail layer; the tiny USSD volume cautions against inferring assisted-channel inclusion, and the aggregate table lacks merchant, fraud, dispute and open-finance linkage outcomes.

Update criterion

Review NPCI/RBI rail, merchant, dispute and Account Aggregator metrics by country and quarter; upgrade only on full-stack operation and downgrade where fraud, API quality, consent or merchant economics fail.

Primary routes

  1. https://www.npci.org.in/uploads/RETAIL_PAYMENTS_STATISTICS_1_xlsx_de91fc7ec0.pdf