The landscape of digital finance is evolving as India's payments authority creates a registry specifically for AI agents. This registry aims to verify and oversee AI transactions, initially targeting UPI payments, with potential future expansions. By facilitating agentic payments, AI will be enabled to engage in frequent, minor digital transactions, resonating with global initiatives aimed at the identification and validation of AI-driven financial agents.

NPCI may soon allow AI agents to make UPI payments on your behalf. A Reuters report citing three people familiar with the matter claims India is preparing a framework that would…

Agentic commerce refers to AI-led shopping where software can search, compare, order, and pay on a user’s behalf. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is preparing…