{"id":985340,"date":"2026-01-14T09:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985340"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:12:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:42:43","slug":"india-plans-major-east-asia-expansion-for-upi-as-global-digital-payments-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/14\/india-plans-major-east-asia-expansion-for-upi-as-global-digital-payments-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"India plans major East Asia expansion for UPI as global digital payments grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is seeking to expand the international footprint of its homegrown digital payments platform, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), with a particular focus on East Asia, financial services secretary M. Nagaraju said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>UPI is accepted in eight countries \u2014 Bhutan, Singapore, Qatar, Mauritius, Nepal, the UAE, Sri Lanka and France \u2014 allowing Indian travellers to make merchant payments abroad using the platform. Nagaraju said India now accounts for around half of global digital transactions, driven largely by UPI adoption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is seeking to expand the international footprint of its homegrown digital payments platform, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), with a particular focus on East Asia, financial services secretary M. Nagaraju said on Tuesday. UPI is accepted in eight countries \u2014 Bhutan, Singapore, Qatar, Mauritius, Nepal, the UAE, Sri Lanka and France \u2014 allowing Indian travellers to make merchant payments abroad using the platform. Nagaraju said India now accounts for around half of global digital transactions, driven largely by UPI adoption.<\/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-985340","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\/985340","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=985340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}