Indians will soon be able to authenticate payments made through the country’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) using facial recognition or fingerprints, as reported by Reuters.
The new feature, set to roll out on Wednesday, will utilize biometric data stored under the government-run Aadhaar identity system. The Reserve Bank of India has recently issued guidelines permitting alternatives to the traditional PIN authentication method.
Managed by the National Payments Corporation of India, UPI has gained immense popularity since its launch in 2016, facilitating hundreds of millions of transactions daily.