{"id":1046280,"date":"2026-11-02T07:41:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046280"},"modified":"2026-11-02T08:01:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:31:04","slug":"festive-spending-drives-record-upi-transactions-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/02\/festive-spending-drives-record-upi-transactions-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive spending drives record UPI transactions in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Festive spending drove a pickup in digital payments in October, with transactions on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) rising to a record 25.47 billion, up 23% year-on-year, according to data released by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).<\/p>\n<p>UPI processed transactions worth Rs 31.53 lakh crore during the month, a 16% rise from a year earlier and the highest on record, signalling that the platform continues to expand even as consumers navigate higher prices of electronics and other festive purchases this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Festive spending drove a pickup in digital payments in October, with transactions on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) rising to a record 25.47 billion, up 23% year-on-year, according to data released by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). UPI processed transactions worth Rs 31.53 lakh crore during the month, a 16% rise from a year earlier and the highest on record, signalling that the platform continues to expand even as consumers navigate higher prices of electronics and other festive purchases this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046280","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046304,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046280\/revisions\/1046304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}