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NPCI issues two circulars on API usage amid rising UPI disruptions

NPCI has asked banks to enforce changes in the response time of UPI APIs by June 16

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NPCI has asked banks to enforce changes in the response time of UPI APIs by June 16. | Photo: Shutterstock

Ajinkya KawaleSubrata Panda Mumbai

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National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) last week issued two circulars giving guidelines on application programming interfaces (APIs) that aims at reducing outages in the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). 
 
One of the two is on reducing the response time for four application programming interfaces (APIs) whereas the second lists directions to prevent the misuse of APIs associated with real-time payments.
 
NPCI has asked banks to enforce changes in the response time of UPI APIs by June 16.
 
“With banks capacity is not an issue. When the outages happened, there was no limit to how many times a bank could send