{"id":951758,"date":"2025-08-01T08:59:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951758"},"modified":"2025-08-01T09:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:37:41","slug":"phonepay-paytm-gpay-users-can-make-upi-payments-through-biometrics-soon-pin-may-become-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/01\/phonepay-paytm-gpay-users-can-make-upi-payments-through-biometrics-soon-pin-may-become-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"PhonePay, PayTm, GPay users can make UPI payments through biometrics soon; PIN may become optional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users of PhonePe, Paytm, Google Pay and BHIM may soon have the option to verify UPI payments using biometric methods like facial recognition or fingerprint scans, instead of manually entering a PIN. According to industry insiders, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is working on introducing this feature, aiming to boost both user convenience and transaction security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users of PhonePe, Paytm, Google Pay and BHIM may soon have the option to verify UPI payments using biometric methods like facial recognition or fingerprint scans, instead of manually entering a PIN. According to industry insiders, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is working on introducing this feature, aiming to boost both user convenience and transaction security.<\/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-951758","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\/951758","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=951758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}