{"id":999431,"date":"2026-03-26T08:58:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999431"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:29:05","slug":"cred-introduces-biometric-authentication-for-upi-payments-up-to-rs-5000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/26\/cred-introduces-biometric-authentication-for-upi-payments-up-to-rs-5000\/","title":{"rendered":"Cred introduces biometric authentication for UPI payments up to Rs 5,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fintech platform Cred on Wednesday said its users can now authorise UPI payments using their face or fingerprint for transactions up to Rs 5,000.<\/p>\n<p>The feature, developed in collaboration with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), is available on both iOS and Android devices, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The authentication method applies to all UPI-based transactions on the platform, including Credit card bills, utility payments, merchant transactions, and peer-to-peer transfers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fintech platform Cred on Wednesday said its users can now authorise UPI payments using their face or fingerprint for transactions up to Rs 5,000. The feature, developed in collaboration with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), is available on both iOS and Android devices, the company said in a statement. The authentication method applies to all UPI-based transactions on the platform, including Credit card bills, utility payments, merchant transactions, and peer-to-peer transfers.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999431","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\/999431","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=999431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}