{"id":968038,"date":"2025-10-16T11:48:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968038"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:18:34","slug":"payment-trends-digital-transactions-surge-but-cash-still-remains-king-heres-what-indians-are-using-to-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/16\/payment-trends-digital-transactions-surge-but-cash-still-remains-king-heres-what-indians-are-using-to-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Payment trends: Digital transactions surge but cash still remains king! Here\u2019s what Indians are using to pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cash continues to hold a strong grip on India\u2019s payment landscape, accounting for nearly half of all transactions, even as digital payments surge across the country.<\/p>\n<p>A report by Care Edge Ratings found that cash usage in private final consumption expenditure (PFCE) remained at around 50% in Q1FY26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cash continues to hold a strong grip on India\u2019s payment landscape, accounting for nearly half of all transactions, even as digital payments surge across the country. A report by Care Edge Ratings found that cash usage in private final consumption expenditure (PFCE) remained at around 50% in Q1FY26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}