The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on Tuesday rolled out a series of initiatives centered on its flagship Unified Payments Interface (UPI), including on-device biometric authentication.

UPI PIN Setup: The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has made significant changes to several UPI-related rules. Starting today, October 8th, payments using face and fingerprint without ...

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the parent organisation of UPI, launched a host of new facilities on October 7, 2025, aimed at enhancing the user experience. As part of this rollout ...

RBI has issued new guidelines for the UPI verification process, bringing Biometric authentication for UPI apps like PhonePe, Paytm, and GPay. From today, UPI payment apps like PhonePe, Paytm, and GPay ...

UPI gets smarter: Face authentication for PIN reset and biometric verification for transactions up to ₹5,000, making payments faster and more convenient UPI introduces face authentication and ...

How to generate a UPI pin without a debit card: A UPI Pin is required to make payment through payment apps like PhonePe, GPay, and Paytm. Without this, you can neither make a payment nor transfer ...

Starting tomorrow, your UPI payments service is going to witness a major change. If you have always found it annoying to enter your PIN while making a payment, your days of agony are over. The Reserve ...

In a major boost to India’s digital payment ecosystem, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and M. Nagaraju, Secretary, Department of Financial Services, announced several new features for ...

For actual payments, the update introduces on-device biometric authentication. This means using your phone's built-in fingerprint scanner, face ID, or similar features instead of entering your PIN.