{"id":292729,"date":"2025-11-15T07:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/292729\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T07:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:07:11","slug":"indians-visiting-malaysia-will-soon-be-able-to-pay-using-upi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/292729\/","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":292730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[34430,8078,2344,153275,165,153279,153277,153278,153276,74,4462,153274],"class_list":["post-292729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-cross-border-payments","tag-digital-payments-india","tag-india","tag-indian-tourists-malaysia-2025","tag-mobile","tag-npci-international-payments-limited","tag-razorpay","tag-razorpay-curlec","tag-razorpay-curlec-partnership","tag-technology","tag-upi","tag-upi-payments-in-malaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}