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How To Make UPI Payments Abroad: A Comprehensive User Guide
With strategic partnerships across countries, UPI is steadily expanding its footprint in international markets.
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How India's UPI Is Revolutionising Global Digital Payments, Explained Simply
India's UPI has become a global leader in fast payments, handling over 640 million transactions daily and powering nearly 50% of all real-time digital payments worldwide.
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PayPal Partners With NPCI, Others to Build Cross-Border Payments Platform Focused on Interoperability
PayPal on Wednesday announced a partnership with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) International Payments Limited and other global payment systems to build a new platform that will support cross-border transactions. Dubbed PayPal World, it will be a technology-agnostic platform that connects to all partnering payment systems. The San Jo...
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Indian Users Can Now Use UPI On Foreign Land, Sites Via PayPal World
In a major boost to cross-border digital payments, Indian users will now be able to use the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to make payments internationally through PayPal.
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India's UPI Revolution Powers 50% Of World's Digital Payments
India is now a global leader in fast payments and theUnified Payments Interface (UPI)is the main driver, as per the InternationalMonetary Fund(IMF).
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E-Commerce Platforms, Online Payments Abused For Terror Financing: Watchdog
Global terror financing watchdog FATF on Tuesday cited the February 2019 Pulwama terror attack, which killed 40 CRPF personnel.
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Apple Pay Down: Global Outage Causes Payment Chaos For Millions
Apple Pay experienced a significant global outage on May 16, 2025, affecting over 745 million users worldwide and causing payment failures and difficulties transferring funds.
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Meta's Stablecoin Plans Likely to Face Regulatory Pushback as US Senator Warren Questions GENIUS ActÂ
Over the weekend, US Senator Elizabeth Warren snubbed the idea of letting Big Tech companies dive too deep into the stablecoin sector. In an interview with CoinDesk, Warren said that Big Tech's introduction of stablecoin transactions could "choke off small businesses from the payments system."
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Mastercard Partners OKX, Nuvei to Launch Payment Ecosystem for Stablecoins
Mastercard has announced it will launch a a payment ecosystem allowing buyers and merchants to facilitate stablecoins transactions. In an official announcement released on April 28, Mastercard claimed that this system would be effective globally, covering over 150 million merchant locations.
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USDC-Issuer Circle Plans Payment Network to Process Transactions via Stablecoins
With the CPN, Circle aims to offer a cross-border payment solution that is cost effective, swift, compliant, and transparent. It could be of help to global suppliers, small merchants, content creators, and remittance recipients. Â Â
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Coinbase Acquires Utopia Labs, Aims to Speed Up On-Chain Payments
Coinbase has acquired Utopia Labs for an undisclosed sum to enhance its on-chain payment systems and services. In the coming months, Coinbase aims to deliver low-cost, rapid, and global payment solutions to its worldwide user base.
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What are AI Tokens: Explained
In the last few days, the AI tokens category emerged as a topic of buzz among members of the global tech community. This happened after tech giants like Apple and Nvidia reportedly initiated discussions around investing in OpenAI.
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Apple Set for Music, TV Streaming Fight in India After Airtel Deal
Apple, working to boost revenue globally from services including apps, payments and media, is set to offer free music and video streaming to many of Bharti Airtel's 281 million customers. Airtel will pay Apple a per-user fee "significantly" lower than the monthly $1.20 (roughly Rs. 100) charged each for Apple TV+ and Apple Music in India,
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Google Pay Announces UPI Circle, UPI Vouchers and More Features at Global Fintech Fest 2024
Google Pay, the Unified Prepaid Interface (UPI) payments app, announced new features at the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2024. The company said that these new features, which will be rolled out later this year, will make it easier for users to make payments and transact through the app. Some of the features announced at the GFF include UPI Circle, UPI...
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Boat Smartwatches in India Get Tap and Pay Functionality in Collaboration With Mastercard
Boat smartwatch users will now be able to use tap and pay functionality at eligible point-of-sale (POS) terminals in India, following an announcement made at the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2024 on Friday (August 30). For this move, the Indian smart wearable brand is partnering with Mastercard, enabling payment services on credit and debit cards from...
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How To Make UPI Payments Abroad: A Comprehensive User Guide
With strategic partnerships across countries, UPI is steadily expanding its footprint in international markets.
-
How India's UPI Is Revolutionising Global Digital Payments, Explained Simply
India's UPI has become a global leader in fast payments, handling over 640 million transactions daily and powering nearly 50% of all real-time digital payments worldwide.
-
PayPal Partners With NPCI, Others to Build Cross-Border Payments Platform Focused on Interoperability
PayPal on Wednesday announced a partnership with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) International Payments Limited and other global payment systems to build a new platform that will support cross-border transactions. Dubbed PayPal World, it will be a technology-agnostic platform that connects to all partnering payment systems. The San Jo...
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Indian Users Can Now Use UPI On Foreign Land, Sites Via PayPal World
In a major boost to cross-border digital payments, Indian users will now be able to use the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to make payments internationally through PayPal.
-
India's UPI Revolution Powers 50% Of World's Digital Payments
India is now a global leader in fast payments and theUnified Payments Interface (UPI)is the main driver, as per the InternationalMonetary Fund(IMF).
-
E-Commerce Platforms, Online Payments Abused For Terror Financing: Watchdog
Global terror financing watchdog FATF on Tuesday cited the February 2019 Pulwama terror attack, which killed 40 CRPF personnel.
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Apple Pay Down: Global Outage Causes Payment Chaos For Millions
Apple Pay experienced a significant global outage on May 16, 2025, affecting over 745 million users worldwide and causing payment failures and difficulties transferring funds.
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Meta's Stablecoin Plans Likely to Face Regulatory Pushback as US Senator Warren Questions GENIUS ActÂ
Over the weekend, US Senator Elizabeth Warren snubbed the idea of letting Big Tech companies dive too deep into the stablecoin sector. In an interview with CoinDesk, Warren said that Big Tech's introduction of stablecoin transactions could "choke off small businesses from the payments system."
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Mastercard Partners OKX, Nuvei to Launch Payment Ecosystem for Stablecoins
Mastercard has announced it will launch a a payment ecosystem allowing buyers and merchants to facilitate stablecoins transactions. In an official announcement released on April 28, Mastercard claimed that this system would be effective globally, covering over 150 million merchant locations.
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USDC-Issuer Circle Plans Payment Network to Process Transactions via Stablecoins
With the CPN, Circle aims to offer a cross-border payment solution that is cost effective, swift, compliant, and transparent. It could be of help to global suppliers, small merchants, content creators, and remittance recipients. Â Â
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Coinbase Acquires Utopia Labs, Aims to Speed Up On-Chain Payments
Coinbase has acquired Utopia Labs for an undisclosed sum to enhance its on-chain payment systems and services. In the coming months, Coinbase aims to deliver low-cost, rapid, and global payment solutions to its worldwide user base.
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What are AI Tokens: Explained
In the last few days, the AI tokens category emerged as a topic of buzz among members of the global tech community. This happened after tech giants like Apple and Nvidia reportedly initiated discussions around investing in OpenAI.
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Apple Set for Music, TV Streaming Fight in India After Airtel Deal
Apple, working to boost revenue globally from services including apps, payments and media, is set to offer free music and video streaming to many of Bharti Airtel's 281 million customers. Airtel will pay Apple a per-user fee "significantly" lower than the monthly $1.20 (roughly Rs. 100) charged each for Apple TV+ and Apple Music in India,
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Google Pay Announces UPI Circle, UPI Vouchers and More Features at Global Fintech Fest 2024
Google Pay, the Unified Prepaid Interface (UPI) payments app, announced new features at the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2024. The company said that these new features, which will be rolled out later this year, will make it easier for users to make payments and transact through the app. Some of the features announced at the GFF include UPI Circle, UPI...
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Boat Smartwatches in India Get Tap and Pay Functionality in Collaboration With Mastercard
Boat smartwatch users will now be able to use tap and pay functionality at eligible point-of-sale (POS) terminals in India, following an announcement made at the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2024 on Friday (August 30). For this move, the Indian smart wearable brand is partnering with Mastercard, enabling payment services on credit and debit cards from...
