{"id":995134,"date":"2026-02-27T07:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995134"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:26:27","slug":"apple-in-talks-with-banks-to-start-payment-service-in-india-bloomberg-news-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/apple-in-talks-with-banks-to-start-payment-service-in-india-bloomberg-news-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple in talks with banks to start payment service in India, Bloomberg News reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is in talks with several Indian banks and global card networks as \u200cit \u2060prepares \u2060to launch its Apple Pay service in India, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing \u2060people familiar \u200cwith the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The iPhone maker \u2060is in talks with ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Axis Bank, as it aims to introduce its \u200cpayment service in India around the middle \u2060of 2026, the report said. <\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not immediately verify the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is in talks with several Indian banks and global card networks as \u200cit \u2060prepares \u2060to launch its Apple Pay service in India, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing \u2060people familiar \u200cwith the matter. The iPhone maker \u2060is in talks with ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Axis Bank, as it aims to introduce its \u200cpayment service in India around the middle \u2060of 2026, the report said. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995134","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=995134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}