{"id":1038061,"date":"2026-09-23T10:39:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038061"},"modified":"2026-09-23T10:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:09:26","slug":"phonepe-expands-to-uae-fintech-gets-in-principle-nod-for-2-payment-licences-what-it-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/23\/phonepe-expands-to-uae-fintech-gets-in-principle-nod-for-2-payment-licences-what-it-means\/","title":{"rendered":"PhonePe expands to UAE: Fintech gets in-principle nod for 2 payment licences | What it means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital payments platform PhonePe has received in-principle approval from the UAE central bank for two licences covering retail payment services, card schemes and stored value facilities, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Walmart-backed fintech said on Tuesday that the approval followed initial regulatory due diligence. However, it will need final approval from the UAE central bank before it can begin commercial operations in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital payments platform PhonePe has received in-principle approval from the UAE central bank for two licences covering retail payment services, card schemes and stored value facilities, Reuters reported. The Walmart-backed fintech said on Tuesday that the approval followed initial regulatory due diligence. However, it will need final approval from the UAE central bank before it can begin commercial operations in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038061","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038062,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038061\/revisions\/1038062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}