UIDAI pitches for Aadhaar-based face authentication for high-value financial transactions

The National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) may soon allow an Aadhaar-based face authentication mechanism for high-value financial transactions, a senior UIDAI official said on Tuesday.

“UIDAI is the foundational infrastructure. It’s the only way to surely know who is who? We have the world’s largest biometric database. We advocate very strongly the use of face authentication as a modality in the multi-factor assessment,” Abhishek Kumar Singh, Deputy Director General at UIDAI, said during a panel discussion at the Global Fintech Fest 2025 in Mumbai.