Instrument 62 | L. NPCI / UPI / Financial AI

CIRCULARIMPLEMENTATION DOCUMENT

NPCI - Safeguarding User Information in UPI

National Payments Corporation of India2025Implementation DocumentPayments

AI / PRIVACY / CYBER RELEVANCE

Relevant to masking/minimisation of payment identifiers before data enters downstream analytics or AI support systems.

AI: HighPrivacy: Very HighCybersecurity: High

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  • Identifier masking/protection
  • user-information handling
  • data- minimisation controls

PURVIEW

Sets operational safeguards for protecting UPI user information and limiting unnecessary exposure of payment identifiers and related user data within the UPI ecosystem. Its significance for AI is practical: any AI assistant, analytics system or fraud-detection tool connected to payment infrastructure may receive identifiers or transaction context, so masking, minimisation, access control and purpose limitation become important before such data reaches downstream systems.

Classification and legal status. NPCI operating / ecosystem requirement; operationally binding within the UPI scheme framework, not general legislation.

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Keywords

UPI identifiersmaskingdata minimisationpayment privacy

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