{"id":1037929,"date":"2026-09-23T08:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037929"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:32:54","slug":"phonepe-gets-uae-central-banks-in-principle-approval-for-payments-wallet-licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/23\/phonepe-gets-uae-central-banks-in-principle-approval-for-payments-wallet-licences\/","title":{"rendered":"PhonePe gets UAE central bank\u2019s in-principle approval for payments, wallet licences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company to seek final approval before starting operations; plans to explore supporting UAE\u2019s domestic payment rails Aani and Jaywan PhonePe has received in-principle approval from the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) for two licences, one for retail payment services and card schemes (RPSCS) and the other for stored value facilities (SVF), the company said on Tuesday. The Walmart-backed company will now work towards final approval before it can start business operations in the country. <\/p>\n<p>Founder and chief executive Sameer Nigam had said on September 9 that the UAE would be PhonePe\u2019s first foreign market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company to seek final approval before starting operations; plans to explore supporting UAE\u2019s domestic payment rails Aani and Jaywan PhonePe has received in-principle approval from the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) for two licences, one for retail payment services and card schemes (RPSCS) and the other for stored value facilities (SVF), the company said on Tuesday. The Walmart-backed company will now work towards final approval before it can start business operations in the country. Founder and chief executive Sameer Nigam had said on September 9 that the UAE would be PhonePe\u2019s first foreign market.<\/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-1037929","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\/1037929","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=1037929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037953,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037929\/revisions\/1037953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}