How PhonePe was back up in 24 hours after outage due to Yes Bank crisis

When the RBI put Yes Bank under a moratorium, its digital partners were also affected, including PhonePe. Here's how it got back up in 24 hours.

Monday March 09, 2020 , 2 min Read

Last week was certainly quite action-packed for the Indian startup ecosystem when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in a rare move, put Yes Bank under a moratorium. While this caused nation-wide panic to its customers, the bank's digital partners were also affected, including PhonePe.

But the digital payments major prevailed and almost 24 hours after announcing a downtime due to ‘unscheduled maintenance activity’, PhonePe sprung back with UPI payment service live on its platform. Read more to know how.

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