India, May 12 -- FamApp By Trio (erstwhile FamPay) surpassed Amazon Pay to become the eighth biggest Unified Payment Interface (UPI) player in April.

The Bengaluru-based FamApp recorded nearly 10 Cr transactions in the month under review, from 9 Cr in the previous month. Meanwhile Amazon Pay's transaction count declined 11.52% to 9.8 Cr, from 11.1 Cr in March.

The month of April saw a marginal decline of 2.2% in the UPI transactions to 17.89 Bn from 18.30 Bn in the previous month. However, on a year-on-year (YoY) basis, the transaction count surged 34%.

As per the National Payments Corporation of India's (NPCI) data, the transaction count of 17.89 Bn accounted for a total amount of 23.95 Lakh Cr in April, a 3.3% decline as recorded aga...