NPCI Plans Vetting System For AI-Driven UPI Transactions As Agentic Commerce Buzz Grows [India]

NDTV

"As it gets ready to implement autonomous "agentic payments" via the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) intends to create a national AI registry to identify, screen, and verify AI agents, Reuters reported. The register will be a component of the NPCI's proposed Unified Agentic Protocol, which will screen AI agents that handle user payments, the news agency said, citing sources."