India has high hopes for UPI payments platform


National Payments Corp of India managing director and chief executive Dilip Asbe. — Bloomberg

New Delhi: India plans to bring hundreds of millions of new users onto Unified Payments Interface (UPI), its real-time payments system, while pitching the platform for wider adoption overseas.

National Payments Corp of India (NPCI) aims to draw an additional 200 million to 300 million Indians to UPI to “break their cash memory” through initiatives including delegated accounts for children and household staff, who may lack access to traditional bank accounts, said Dilip Asbe, its managing director and chief executive.

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