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Annual report · 2026

Credit Card Devaluation Report, 2026

326 total eventsLast 12 months44% human-reviewed

Tapwise's scraper monitors issuer MITC documents weekly and flags every reward-rule change. In the last 365 days, we logged 326 change events across the Indian credit card market. Below: the breakdown by type, and the most material individual devaluations.

Refreshed 2026-07-19.

Changes by type

9 types observed
exclusions
23% of all events
76
reward rate
20% of all events
64
transfer ratio change
16% of all events
52
card structure changed
11% of all events
37
possible rule retirement
11% of all events
36
card fee devaluation
7% of all events
24
transfer cross source conflict
5% of all events
16
is upi eligible
5% of all events
15
monthly cap inr
2% of all events
6

Notable devaluations

High and medium severity
exclusions · exclusions
high
12 Jul 2026
exclusions · exclusions
high
12 Jul 2026
exclusions · exclusions
high
12 Jul 2026
exclusions · exclusions
high
12 Jul 2026
exclusions · exclusions
high
12 Jul 2026
reward rate · reward rate
high
12 Jul 2026
exclusions · exclusions
high
12 Jul 2026
reward rate · reward rate
high
12 Jul 2026
exclusions · exclusions
high
12 Jul 2026
reward rate · reward rate
high
12 Jul 2026

Methodology

Every reward rule across the 80+ cards Tapwise tracks has a curated baseline from the issuer's MITC document. Our scraper re-fetches MITC + issuer reward pages weekly and compares the parsed structure to the baseline. When something material has changed (a rate dropped, a cap was added, a category was excluded), the diff lands as a row in our internal change-alerts table.

We never auto-apply devaluations. Every alert sits in a queue for human review against the source document. Only rules confirmed by review are pushed into the public reward database. This report counts every alert logged, whether reviewed yet or not; the "human-reviewed" percentage shows how much of the window has been worked through.

Severity is set by the scraper from the magnitude of the change: a rate drop more than 1 percentage point or a new cap below ₹2,000/mo is high; smaller rate trims and new caps above that threshold are medium; cosmetic rewording is low and excluded from the "notable" list above.

Refreshed daily. Last refresh: 2026-07-19.