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Visa complains to U.S. govt about India backing for local rival RuPay

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Visa Inc has complained to the U.S. government that India's "informal and form

Visa complains to U.S. govt about India backing for local rival RuPay

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Reuters reported in 2018 that the company had lodged a protest https://reut.rs/3cQA2La with the USTR that Modi was using nationalism to promote the local network.\n\"Visa remains concerned about India's informal and formal policies that appear to favour the business of National Payments Corporation of India\" (NPCI), the non-profit that runs RuPay, \"over other domestic and foreign electronic payments companies,\" said a USTR memo prepared for Tai ahead of the meeting.\nVisa, USTR, Modi's office and the NPCI did not respond to requests for comment.\nModi has promoted homegrown RuPay for years, posing a challenge to Visa and Mastercard in the fast-growing payments market. RuPay accounted for 63% of India's 952 million debit and credit cards as of November 2020, according to the most recent regulatory data on the company, up from just 15% in 2017.\nPublicly, Kelly said in May that for years there was \"a lot of concern\" that the likes of RuPay could be \"potentially problematic\" for Visa, but he stressed that his company remained India's market leader.\n\"That's going to be something we're going to continually deal with and have dealt with for years. 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