{"id":1027165,"date":"2026-08-07T10:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027165"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:56:28","slug":"upi-opening-new-frontiers-beyond-payments-into-digital-lending-says-phonepes-vp-for-government-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/07\/upi-opening-new-frontiers-beyond-payments-into-digital-lending-says-phonepes-vp-for-government-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI opening new frontiers beyond payments into digital lending, says PhonePe&#8217;s VP for government affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], August 6 (ANI): Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is opening new frontiers beyond payments, particularly in digital lending, even as a significant section of India&#8217;s population is yet to be brought into the digital payments ecosystem, Shivnath Thukral, Vice President, Public Policy &amp; Government Affairs at PhonePe, told ANI on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to ANI on the sidelines of the ASSOCHAM Fintech Summit, Thukral said India&#8217;s digital payments ecosystem has witnessed unprecedented growth, driven by the digital public infrastructure created through collaboration between the government and the private sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], August 6 (ANI): Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is opening new frontiers beyond payments, particularly in digital lending, even as a significant section of India&#8217;s population is yet to be brought into the digital payments ecosystem, Shivnath Thukral, Vice President, Public Policy &amp; Government Affairs at PhonePe, told ANI on Thursday. Speaking to ANI on the sidelines of the ASSOCHAM Fintech Summit, Thukral said India&#8217;s digital payments ecosystem has witnessed unprecedented growth, driven by the digital public infrastructure created through collaboration between the government and the private sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027201,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027165\/revisions\/1027201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}