{"id":1038101,"date":"2026-09-23T11:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038101"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:37:53","slug":"phonepe-moves-closer-to-launching-in-uae-after-regulators-nod-awaits-final-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/23\/phonepe-moves-closer-to-launching-in-uae-after-regulators-nod-awaits-final-clearance\/","title":{"rendered":"PhonePe moves closer to launching in UAE after regulator\u2019s nod; awaits final clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital payments platform PhonePe said on Tuesday it received in-principle approval from the UAE central bank for two licenses covering retail payment services, card schemes, and stored value facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The Walmart-backed fintech firm said the approval follows initial regulatory due diligence and that it still needs final central bank sign-off before it can begin commercial operations in the Gulf state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital payments platform PhonePe said on Tuesday it received in-principle approval from the UAE central bank for two licenses covering retail payment services, card schemes, and stored value facilities. The Walmart-backed fintech firm said the approval follows initial regulatory due diligence and that it still needs final central bank sign-off before it can begin commercial operations in the Gulf state.<\/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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038101","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=1038101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038102,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038101\/revisions\/1038102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}