UPI IDs With These Characters Will Be Blocked From February 1

UPI IDs With These Characters Will Be Blocked From February 1 - Here's How To Avoid It

Friday, 31 January 2025Newsdesk

UPI Transaction IDs: This move is part of efforts to ensure the security of the UPI ecosystem, which has seen tremendous growth in recent years.

New Delhi 31 January 2025

As per news report of NDTV,The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), a public sector company that operates retail payments and settlement systems in India, has declared new guidelines for Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions, which will come into effect from February 1, 2025. According to this new regulation, if a UPI ID contains special characters like #, @, $, or *, it will be blacklisted. This means that every user needs to update his UPI ID to follow the rules with such specially made characters.

Source - NDTV