{"id":141121,"date":"2025-11-15T11:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/141121\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T11:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:38:09","slug":"indians-visiting-malaysia-will-soon-be-able-to-pay-using-upi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/141121\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians visiting Malaysia will soon be able to pay using UPI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian travellers visiting Malaysia will soon be able to pay local merchants directly through their usual <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/upi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UPI<\/a> apps, following a partnership between <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tech\/razorpay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Razorpay<\/a>\u2019s Malaysian entity, Curlec, and <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/npci-international-payments-limited\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NPCI International Payments Limited<\/a> (NIPL). The agreement, finalised at the Global Fintech Fest 2025, enables instant transactions in Malaysian Ringgit without the need for international cards.<br \/>The introduction UPI payments mark a significant step in expanding <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India<\/a>\u2019s digital payment infrastructure abroad. For Malaysian merchants, <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/razorpay-curlec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Razorpay Curlec<\/a> will provide local settlement in Ringgit through its platform, allowing businesses to accept UPI payments without additional integrations.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration aims to make <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/cross-border-payments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cross-border payments<\/a> simpler for Indian visitors and strengthen digital connectivity between India and Malaysia. With travel between the two countries rising, the partnership offers a familiar, low-friction payment method to Indian tourists and opens new revenue opportunities for Malaysian businesses.<\/p>\n<p>According to Razorpay, Indian tourism to Malaysia crossed one million visitors in 2024, with spending rising more than 70% from the previous year. The company said the new payment route aims to reduce cash reliance, lower foreign exchange costs, and improve acceptance for both travellers and merchants.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative builds on India\u2019s expanding real-time payments ecosystem. UPI processed around 20 billion transactions in September 2025, and through Curlec, Razorpay plans to extend this scale to international markets by offering a trusted, real-time payment method across borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian travellers visiting Malaysia will soon be able to pay local merchants directly through their usual UPI apps,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36908,49476,61,2568,81221,60,202,81224,47060,81223,81222,80,4240,81220],"class_list":{"0":"post-141121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-cross-border-payments","9":"tag-digital-payments-india","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-india","12":"tag-indian-tourists-malaysia-2025","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-mobile","15":"tag-npci-international-payments-limited","16":"tag-razorpay","17":"tag-razorpay-curlec","18":"tag-razorpay-curlec-partnership","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-upi","21":"tag-upi-payments-in-malaysia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}