Travellers from G20 countries can use UPI for payments: RBI

The Reserve Bank has allowed inbound travellers from G20 nations arriving at select airports to use the popular UPI for making payments in the country. RBI plans to later extend the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) facility to travellers from all countries. UPI is a system that powers multiple bank accounts into a single mobile application, merging several banking features, seamless fund routing and merchant payments into one hood.

“UPI has become hugely popular for retail digital payments in India. It is now proposed to permit all inbound travellers to India to use UPI for their merchant payments (P2M) while they are in the country,” said RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das.