{"id":380358,"date":"2025-11-15T08:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/380358\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:59:15","slug":"indians-visiting-malaysia-will-soon-be-able-to-pay-using-upi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/380358\/","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=\"noopener\">UPI<\/a> apps, following a partnership between <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tech\/razorpay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Razorpay<\/a>\u2019s Malaysian entity, Curlec, and <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/npci-international-payments-limited\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"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=\"noopener\">India<\/a>\u2019s digital payment infrastructure abroad. For Malaysian merchants, <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/razorpay-curlec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"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=\"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":3,"featured_media":380359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[76725,45229,1567,182316,611,182319,148637,182318,182317,158,67,132,35331,182315,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-380358","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-india","11":"tag-indian-tourists-malaysia-2025","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-npci-international-payments-limited","14":"tag-razorpay","15":"tag-razorpay-curlec","16":"tag-razorpay-curlec-partnership","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-upi","21":"tag-upi-payments-in-malaysia","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115552895922588077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}