♦ The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) crossed 20 billion transactions in August for the first time in its history, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) data showed on 1 September 2025.

♦ In August, UPI transactions reached 20.01 billion mark, registering a 2.8 percent increase over July (19.47 billion). On the annual basis, this is a 34 percent increase.

♦ In terms of value, UPI recorded transactions worth Rs.24.85 lakh crore during August, up 24 percent on-year, the data showed.

♦ Moreover, the average daily transaction count jumped to 645 million (up from 628 million in July), and the daily transaction value stood at Rs 80,177 crore, as per the NPCI data.

♦ UPI had earlier achieved a record of crossing 700 million transactions in a single day on August 2.