Google Pay to add support for contactless UPI payments over NFC

Google Pay is one of the most widely used digital payments systems in the country, which uses the Unified Payments Interface to allow direct bank-to-bank transfers. The app is now adding support for making UPI transactions over NFC, according to a new report.

This isn’t the first time that Google Pay is announcing an NFC powered payment feature in the country — Google Pay already supports making payments via tokenised cards over NFC, just like the service works in countries where there is no UPI system. However, since that feature only works on cards issued by a very small list of banks, Google seems to have decided to put the NFC chip on your smartphone to good use.