{"id":985339,"date":"2026-01-14T09:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985339"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:42:08","slug":"india-looking-to-expand-upi-acceptance-focusing-on-east-asia-dfs-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/14\/india-looking-to-expand-upi-acceptance-focusing-on-east-asia-dfs-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"India looking to expand UPI acceptance, focusing on East Asia: DFS Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is working to expand the global footprint of its homegrown digital payment system, Unified Payments Interface (UPI), to more countries, with a special focus on East Asia, Financial Services Secretary M Nagaraju said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>UPI is currently accepted in eight countries \u2014 Bhutan, Singapore, Qatar, Mauritius, Nepal, the UAE, Sri Lanka and France \u2014 enabling Indian tourists to make digital payments for transactions abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is working to expand the global footprint of its homegrown digital payment system, Unified Payments Interface (UPI), to more countries, with a special focus on East Asia, Financial Services Secretary M Nagaraju said on Tuesday. UPI is currently accepted in eight countries \u2014 Bhutan, Singapore, Qatar, Mauritius, Nepal, the UAE, Sri Lanka and France \u2014 enabling Indian tourists to make digital payments for transactions abroad.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985339","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=985339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}