Committees

To focus on the vast sectors in the digital payments space, seven committees have been formed under PCI.

The seven committees formed under PCI are:

  • Prepaid Payment Issuers
  • Merchant Aggregators and Acquirers
  • Payments Bank
  • International Remittance
  • Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS)
  • Payments Network
  • United Payment Interface
Each of the seven working committee's is led by the Chair and Co-Chair:
  • Prepaid Payment Issuers

    Prepaid Payment Issuers Committee works toward the industry issues, representations and the growth of Prepaid Payment Ecosystem in India.
    Non-Banking Organizations licensed by RBI to issue semi closed Prepaid Cards, Prepaid Technology Providers, Prepaid Payment Facilitators, Co-branded Prepaid Card Issuers can be a part of this committee. This committee is further divided into three subcommittees namely: Cards, Wallets & Corporate.

    Co-Chairman - Abhishek Sinha, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Eko India Financial Services
    Co-Chairman – Anish Sarkar, Managing Director - Sodexo SVC India
    Co-Chairman - Mahendra Nerurkar, CEO, Amazon Pay

  • Merchant Aggregators and Acquirers

    Merchant Aggregators and Acquirers Committee work towards the industry issues, representation and the growth of the payment processing ecosystem in India.
    Merchant aggregators, Merchant acquirers, Payment Processors, Card Networks, Payment Facilitators etc. can be a part of this committee. This committee is further divided into three subcommittees namely: Online Payment Gateway (PG), Physical & Mobile POS and Soft POS

    Co- Chairman - Dewang Neralla, Chief Executive Officer, Atom Technologies
    Co- Chairman – Deepak Chandnani, Chief Executive Officer, South Asia & ME, Worldline
    Co-Chairman – Manish Patel, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Mswipe

  • Payments Bank

    Payments and Small Finance Bank Committee works toward the industry issues, representations and the growth of payments bank ecosystem in India.
    All entities engaged in Payments Banks and Small Finance Banks can be part of this committee.

    Co-Chairman – H. SriKrishnan, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Jio Payments Bank
    Co-Chairman – Rishi Gupta, Managing Director, Fino Payments Bank

  • International Remittance

    International Remittance Committee works toward the industry issues, representations and the growth of international remittance ecosystem in India.
    Remittance facilitators like International Money Transfer Operators can be part of this committee.

    Co-Chairman – Sohini Rajola, APAC and ME Network Head, Western Union
    Co-Chairman – Nath Parameshwaran, Head Corporate Affairs, PayPal

  • Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS)

    BBPS Committee works toward the industry issues, representations and the growth of Bill Payments Ecosystem in India.
    All the entities engaged in bill payments can be a part of this committee

    Co-Chairman – Srinivasu MN, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Billdesk
    Co-Chairman – Vishwas Patel, Director- Infibeam Avenues

  • Payments Network

    Payments Network Committee works toward the industry issues, representations and the growth of Payments Network Ecosystem in India.
    Companies providing platform for reliable transaction processing & licensing its payment brands to Issuers and Acquirers can be a part of this committee

    Co-Chairman – Porush Singh, Country Corporate Officer, India and Division President, South Asia, Master Card
    Co-Chairman – T. R. Ramachandran, Group Country Manager- India and South Asia, Visa


  • United Payment Interface

    United Payment Interface Committee works toward the industry issues, representations and the growth of United Payment Interface ecosystem in India All entities live on United Payment Interface platform can be part of this committee

To join the committees, write to
gaurav@iamai.in

neville@paymentscouncil.in

hariharan@paymentscouncil.in