In a significant disruption to the financial ecosystem, around 300 small-sized lenders, including cooperatives and regional rural banks, have been unable to provide payment services due to a ransomware attack on their technology service provider, -Edge Technologies. In a notification issued on Wednesday, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) stated that UPI (Unified Payments Interface), IMPS (Immediate Payment Service), and other retail payment systems of certain banks will not be available to customers temporarily.