New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- The Central Government's Department of Financial Services Secretary, M. Nagaraju, speaking at the Global Fintech Fest 2025 on Tuesday, 7 October 2025, announced that the centre is set to roll out new updates to India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in an effort to strengthen verification and simplify payments.

The government plans to soon implement fingerprint verification, along with facial recognition, for UPI transactions to make digital payments simpler and more secure. This move aims to eliminate the need for people to manually enter their UPI PIN, making transactions PIN-free.

1. Fingerprints or facial recognition: After the government update, the UPI users will be able to authenticate their transactions us...