CCAvenue, India's leading digital payments powerhouse and a flagship brand of AvenuesAI Limited, has announced the expansion of its existing fintech partnership with Mumbai-based DCB Bank at the Global Fintech Fest 2026. This collaboration focuses on providing educational institutions with secure, convenient and technology-led solutions to manage digital payments of fees.

This partnership will enable DCB Bank to offer its network of customers in the education sector, access to CCAvenue's AI Form solution, helping institutions simplify fee collection and providing parents and students with an easier and seamless way to pay fees.

By assembling DCB Bank's robust banking network and customer relationships with CCAvenue's long-established payment technology, the alliance focuses on offering educational institutions a highly comprehensive payment solution that addresses their online fee collection concerns.

Simplifying Fee Collection for Educational Institutions
CCAvenue's AI Form enables educational institutions and schools to build customised digital payment forms and generate individual payment links for collection of fees for various courses and educational services. These AI Forms links are shared with students or their parents through various communication channels, offering them a secure and convenient way to pay the fees via multiple payment options.

Enabling a Seamless Digital Payment Experience
Designed to create an experience that makes payments more convenient for both the educational institution as well as parents, the alliance leverages organisational expertise of CCAvenue and DCB Bank. DCB Bank first on-boards an educational institution or school as its customer. Based on its specific requirements, the school can then create their payment collection form through CCAvenue AI Forms and share a payment link form with students or the parents through any of the available communication channels. The communication channels can range from email, text message, WhatsApp chat. The payer clicks the link, enters mandatory details and completes the payment through a secure digital interface.

On the other hand, the school can view incoming payment details with transaction history, and also reconcile payments and statements with ease. The overall process is designed to reduce manual handling of payments, offer clear visibility into transactions and provide a seamless payment experience to parents as well as the institution.

Developed for the Education Sector
CCAvenue's association with DCB Bank is majorly relevant to schools, colleges, universities, coaching institutes and other educational organisations that are progressively adopting digital-first payment processes. In addition to the benefits of AI Forms, DCB Bank’s customers will also gain from CCAvenue's wider suite of payment capabilities including its Website Payment Gateway, Link-Based Payments, UPI stack and other value-added solutions.

Further, CCAvenue's platform also offers flexible integration options, including APIs, SDKs, web integrations and ready-to-use plugins, so that institutions can connect digital payments with their existing websites, ERP systems and other technologies already in use.

Creating Enhanced Experience for Payments
Ultimately, the partnership aims to help educational institutions transition into a more streamlined and transparent way of collecting fees digitally, while giving parents and students a highly convenient payment experience.

Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Pankaj Dedhia, Group Chief Business Officer at AvenuesAI Limited, said, "We are pleased to strengthen our partnership with DCB Bank at the Global Fintech Fest 2026. Through this alliance, we aim to provide DCB Bank’s education institutions with access to AI Forms and our broader payment capabilities, helping schools and institutions simplify everyday fee collection and offer a more convenient payment experience for parents and students. We look forward to continuing our support for the education ecosystem with secure, flexible and technology-driven payment solutions."

Sharing his thoughts, Mr. Narendranath Mishra, Head - Retail and Agri Loans, DCB Bank, stated, "DCB Bank, is committed to contribute to build the education infrastructure of the country by providing financial solutions that are customised and relevant to educational institutions. Education, knowledge and skills, have a primary role to play for collective goal of Viksit Bharat. The strengthened association with CCAvenue enables DCB Bank to offer educational institutions a convenient and secure digital payment ecosystem and would further enhance our comprehensive offerings. Flexible solutions such as AI Forms, enable schools to simplify fee collection and provide parents with a seamless payment experience. We believe this collaboration will further support the digital transformation of educational institutions."

About CCAvenue
CCAvenue, the flagship brand of AvenuesAI Limited, is a PCI DSS 3.2.1 compliant payments platform for eCommerce businesses in India. The organization serves millions of merchants spread across verticals such as Retail, Travel, Real Estate, Telecommunication, Government departments, and Utility billers, Hospitality, Education and Healthcare. It enables merchants to accept online payments through a spectrum of new-age payment options including 6 major Credit Cards, 97+ Debit Cards (All MasterCard / Visa / Maestro / RuPay Cards), Amex EzeClick, 58+ Net Banking, Mobile Wallets, UPI and up to 15 Multi Bank EMI options.

About DCB Bank Ltd.
DCB Bank is a new generation private sector bank with 480 branches (as on 30th June 2026) across India. It is a scheduled commercial bank regulated by the Reserve Bank of India. It is professionally managed and governed. DCB Bank has contemporary technology and infrastructure including state of the art internet banking for personal as well as business banking customers.

DCB Bank’s business segments are Retail, micro-SME, SME, mid-Corporate, Agriculture, Government, Public Sector, Indian Banks, Co-operative Banks and Non Banking Finance Companies (NBFC). DCB Bank has more than 3.2 Million active customers.

The Bank’s network of state-of-the-art, customer friendly branches are situated across Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Daman, Delhi/ NCR, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Silvassa, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.

A strong focus on technology, digital banking infrastructure and customer-centric banking, enables DCB Bank to offer a range of personal and business banking products and services.

For more details please visit www.dcb.bank.in

About AvenuesAI Limited
AvenuesAI Limited (formerly Infibeam Avenues Ltd) (“Company”) is one of the leading global financial technology (fintech) companies offering comprehensive digital payment and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions across industry verticals. The company’s payment infrastructure suite includes acquiring and issuing solutions, as well as core payment infrastructure for banks. Company’s flagship brand CCAvenue powers one of India’s largest Payment Gateway (PG) platforms, offering over 200 payment options that enable merchants to accept payments through websites and mobile devices in 27 international currencies. As part of its diversified digital ecosystem, Rediff.com, a subsidiary of AvenuesAI Limited (formerly Infibeam Avenues Ltd), strengthens the Company’s position in the AI-driven commerce and content platform space. Rediff’s offerings, combined with AvenuesAI’s advanced fintech and AI capabilities, enable a unified ecosystem of payments, platforms, and digital services that drive value across consumer and enterprise segments. The company processed transactions worth INR 5.04 trillion (US$ 53.4 billion) in FY26 across payments and platforms and serves over 10 million clients across its digital payments and platform businesses, catering to merchants, enterprises, corporations, governments, and financial institutions in both domestic and international markets. AvenuesAI’s international operations span the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Australia, and the United States of America, with an additional presence in Oman, where it partners with three of the country’s largest banks.