Rediff.com India receives TPAP licence from NPCI

Rediff.com India announced that it has received final approval from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) for its Third-Party Application Provider (TPAP) licence, paving the way for the rollout of its digital payments platform, RediffPay.

With this approval, the company has commenced Closed User Group (CUG) testing, an essential step before entering the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) ecosystem. It is also preparing to launch what it claims will be India’s first UPI app built around a financial-wellness, customer-centric proposition, designed to encourage saving, investing, and responsible access to credit.

According to the company’s press release, the CUG testing marks its entry into the UPI ecosystem. “It enables us to extend secure, interoperable UPI services through RediffPay and advances our mission to broaden financial inclusion while delivering simple, intuitive digital payment experiences for users across India,” the release said.

RediffPay aims to combine traditional UPI features with a broader financial-wellness, customer-centric offering. Beyond standard bill payments, mobile recharges, and cross-app UPI interoperability, the app will promote better financial habits through curated savings and investment products such as equities, mutual funds (MFs), fixed deposits (FDs), recurring deposits (RDs), and similar products, along with pathways to quick credit.

The RediffPay platform will also support Credit Line on UPI, expanding access to formal credit, particularly in Tier-2, Tier-3, and smaller towns and cities. The company plans to onboard small, micro, mid-sized, and large merchants across India by offering RediffPay UPI QR-code-enabled point-of-sale (POS) solutions, integrating merchant credit demand into its UPI ecosystem.

Rediff.com India is a subsidiary of Infibeam Avenues, which acquired a controlling stake in Rediff in 2024 and has since increased its holding to 82%. The company aims to serve its existing base of 60 million unique Rediff visitors and email users. It will offer localised email services compliant with the DPDP Act and provide multilingual UPI services to reach the next 250 million users in India.