{"id":1034773,"date":"2026-09-12T09:25:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034773"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:43:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:13:04","slug":"indias-digital-rupee-could-move-beyond-payments-heres-where-it-may-be-headed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/indias-digital-rupee-could-move-beyond-payments-heres-where-it-may-be-headed\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s digital rupee could move beyond payments. Here\u2019s where it may be headed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s digital rupee may be moving beyond its initial role as an alternative form of payment, with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman urging the Reserve Bank of India to sharpen its CBDC capabilities as tokenised financial assets begin to gain ground.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Global Fintech Fest 2026 in Mumbai on Friday, Sitharaman asked the RBI to build further on its wholesale and retail central bank digital currency pilots, pointing to the digital rupee\u2019s potential role as the settlement layer for tokenised bonds and other assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s digital rupee may be moving beyond its initial role as an alternative form of payment, with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman urging the Reserve Bank of India to sharpen its CBDC capabilities as tokenised financial assets begin to gain ground. Speaking at the Global Fintech Fest 2026 in Mumbai on Friday, Sitharaman asked the RBI to build further on its wholesale and retail central bank digital currency pilots, pointing to the digital rupee\u2019s potential role as the settlement layer for tokenised bonds and other assets.<\/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-1034773","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\/1034773","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=1034773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034801,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034773\/revisions\/1034801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}