{"id":910323,"date":"2025-03-01T08:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T02:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=910323"},"modified":"2025-03-01T08:21:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T02:51:33","slug":"upi-transactions-hit-record-17-bn-in-jan-set-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/01\/upi-transactions-hit-record-17-bn-in-jan-set-new-record\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI transactions hit record 17 bn in Jan, set new record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions surpassed 16.99 billion in January for the first time, with the total value exceeding Rs 23.48 lakh crore \u2014 the highest ever recorded in a single month, according to the latest finance ministry data. <\/p>\n<p>For 2023-24, the digital payments landscape saw remarkable growth, the finance ministry said in a statement. UPI continues to be the backbone of India\u2019s digital payment ecosystem, accounting for 80% of retail transactions nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions surpassed 16.99 billion in January for the first time, with the total value exceeding Rs 23.48 lakh crore \u2014 the highest ever recorded in a single month, according to the latest finance ministry data. For 2023-24, the digital payments landscape saw remarkable growth, the finance ministry said in a statement. UPI continues to be the backbone of India\u2019s digital payment ecosystem, accounting for 80% of retail transactions nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910323","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}