{"id":1006718,"date":"2026-05-04T11:13:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006718"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:13:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:43:25","slug":"upi-hits-record-in-fy26-24162-cr-transactions-worth-%e2%82%b9314-lakh-crore-5-ways-to-stay-safe-while-making-upi-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/04\/upi-hits-record-in-fy26-24162-cr-transactions-worth-%e2%82%b9314-lakh-crore-5-ways-to-stay-safe-while-making-upi-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI hits record in FY26: 24,162 cr transactions worth \u20b9314 lakh crore \u2013 5 ways to stay safe while making UPI payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nation\u2019s digital payment ecosystem has reached a new milestone, with Unified Payments Interface (UPI) recording 24,162 crore transactions. These transactions cumulatively are worth \u20b9314 lakh crore in FY26.<\/p>\n<p>This noticeable surge reflects widespread adoption across both urban and rural regions. Comfort, convenience, real-time fund transfers and growing smartphone penetration in rural regions drive it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation\u2019s digital payment ecosystem has reached a new milestone, with Unified Payments Interface (UPI) recording 24,162 crore transactions. These transactions cumulatively are worth \u20b9314 lakh crore in FY26. This noticeable surge reflects widespread adoption across both urban and rural regions. Comfort, convenience, real-time fund transfers and growing smartphone penetration in rural regions drive it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006719,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006718\/revisions\/1006719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}