Article Preview
TopIntroduction
“Cash; Pay cash, Theodore. It's safest unless you keep your wallet where someone can pick your pocket.”-Jewel E. Ann, Scarlet Stone
India is one of the fast-developing countries to lead the world’s economic growth in the global marketplace. The demonetization of two massive currency notes of Rs.500 and 1000 which helped to minimize corruption and money hoarding to a great extent. After demonetization in India, the government has taken many steps to eliminate corruption and black money, out of which, mobile wallet is one among them to solve the issues. The Digital India initiative was implemented with more priority to promote a cashless economy in the country. Digital transactions restrict illegal transactions, black money, and helps develop the economic growth of the country. Mobile wallets are one of the major cashless payment systems emerged in India. After demonetization, mobile wallets became a primary financial instrument to make a cashless payment. Initially, the mobile wallet apps were used only for making the recharge and paying bills, but now the mobile wallets are used to make most of the bank transactions and it even reduced the customer visits drastically. Mobile wallets are operated using Mobile apps that should be installed in android or IOS platforms, and also it should be linked with customers' bank accounts, and mobile numbers.
Nowadays mobile wallets are one of the financial instruments used for making all types of payments, transferring funds, recharging, and receiving the funds through bank accounts. Earlier in retail shops, petty shops, food corner, beverages shops, Bus Travel and other visiting places, customers were facing problems with shoppers to get change currency like one rupee or two rupees and five rupees. But right now this problem has been sorted out with the help of mobile wallets. The consumer adoption and learning of technology used in Digital payment system helps consumers to use e-commerce transactions in their day-to-day life (Dahlberg et al., 2015). At the present time, m-wallets are used to execute several financial transactions. In developing economies, m-wallets offer an opportunity to target a large population. According to the report of Economic Times, PayTm is the leading mobile wallet company shown an annual increase of 435% in the year 2019. The National Payments Corporation of India developed the Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM app) for transacting funds directly between the bank accounts (Ghosh, 2017).