{"id":1034416,"date":"2026-09-10T09:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034416"},"modified":"2026-09-10T09:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:58:51","slug":"phonepe-goes-global-to-begin-uae-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/10\/phonepe-goes-global-to-begin-uae-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"PhonePe goes global, to begin UAE operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PhonePe has received its first international licence from the Central Bank of the UAE and will begin operating locally in the country, Founder and Chief Executive Officer Sameer Nigam said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhonePe is going global,\u201d Nigam said on Wednesday. \u201cWe just received our first international licence from the Central Bank of the UAE. We will be launching operations in the UAE as our first foreign market.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The licence will allow the company to acquire merchants, deploy point-of-sale (PoS) devices and offer foreign exchange services, Nigam said, without specifying a launch timeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhonePe has received its first international licence from the Central Bank of the UAE and will begin operating locally in the country, Founder and Chief Executive Officer Sameer Nigam said on Wednesday. \u201cPhonePe is going global,\u201d Nigam said on Wednesday. \u201cWe just received our first international licence from the Central Bank of the UAE. We will be launching operations in the UAE as our first foreign market.\u201d The licence will allow the company to acquire merchants, deploy point-of-sale (PoS) devices and offer foreign exchange services, Nigam said, without specifying a launch timeline.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034416","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=1034416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034437,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034416\/revisions\/1034437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}