{"id":995272,"date":"2026-02-27T09:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995272"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:06:57","slug":"apple-pay-to-make-india-entry-engages-leading-banks-card-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/apple-pay-to-make-india-entry-engages-leading-banks-card-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Pay to make India entry, engages leading banks, card networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is preparing to introduce its digital payment service &#8212;  Apple Pay &#8212; in India, as the company holds discussions with leading Indian banks and global card networks. According to a report, Apple is in talks with ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, and Axis Bank, and may roll out the service in the country by mid-2026. The company is also discussing its plans with payment networks Mastercard and Visa Inc. <\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s digital payments market is already crowded with major global players  like Google Pay, Walmart-controlled PhonePe, and Amazon.com, alongside strong domestic competitors like Paytm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is preparing to introduce its digital payment service &#8212; Apple Pay &#8212; in India, as the company holds discussions with leading Indian banks and global card networks. According to a report, Apple is in talks with ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, and Axis Bank, and may roll out the service in the country by mid-2026. The company is also discussing its plans with payment networks Mastercard and Visa Inc. India\u2019s digital payments market is already crowded with major global players like Google Pay, Walmart-controlled PhonePe, and Amazon.com, alongside strong domestic competitors like Paytm.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995272","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=995272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}