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Mar '26

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UPI Has an Owner. Your Payment Doesn't.

NPCI owns and operates UPI. It owns none of the four things that decide whether your payment goes through.

Every UPI failure mode sits on a boundary between organisations that don't report to each other. NPCI runs the switch, not the path.

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