{"id":927237,"date":"2025-05-02T07:58:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=927237"},"modified":"2025-05-02T08:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:51:49","slug":"upi-transactions-up-34-on-year-in-april-down-a-tad-from-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/02\/upi-transactions-up-34-on-year-in-april-down-a-tad-from-march\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI transactions up 34% on year in April, down a tad from March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transactions on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) rose 34% year-on-year to 17.89 billion in April, reflecting continued momentum in digital payments. The total transaction value also climbed 22% to Rs 23.95 lakh crore, according to data released by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>However, on a sequential basis, the number of transactions slipped 2.2%, while the transaction value dropped 3.3% compared to March. Industry experts attributed the sequential slowdown to technical glitches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transactions on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) rose 34% year-on-year to 17.89 billion in April, reflecting continued momentum in digital payments. The total transaction value also climbed 22% to Rs 23.95 lakh crore, according to data released by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on Thursday. However, on a sequential basis, the number of transactions slipped 2.2%, while the transaction value dropped 3.3% compared to March. Industry experts attributed the sequential slowdown to technical glitches.<\/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-927237","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\/927237","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=927237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}