{"id":5678,"date":"2023-08-21T10:01:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T10:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/21\/german-minister-uses-upi-to-make-payment-in-india-facinated-reaction-goes-viral-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T10:01:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T10:01:57","slug":"german-minister-uses-upi-to-make-payment-in-india-facinated-reaction-goes-viral-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/21\/german-minister-uses-upi-to-make-payment-in-india-facinated-reaction-goes-viral-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"German minister uses UPI to make payment in India, facinated reaction goes viral &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">New Delhi: Germany\u2019s federal minister for digital and transport Volker Wissing on 20 August used Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to make a payment at a vegetable shop in the national capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Following this, the German embassy described digital infrastructure in India as one of its success stories and shared the video of Wissing using the UPI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of India\u2019s success stories is digital infrastructure. UPI enables everybody to make transactions in seconds. Millions of Indians use it. Federal Minister for Digital and Transport @Wissing was able to experience the simplicity of UPI payments first hand and is very fascinated!,\u201d the embassy said on X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One of India\u2019s success story is digital infrastructure. UPI enables everybody to make transactions in seconds. Millions of Indians use it. Federal Minister for Digital and Transport <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wissing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Wissing<\/a> was able to experience the simplicity of UPI payments first hand and is very fascinated! <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I57P8snF0C\">pic.twitter.com\/I57P8snF0C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 German Embassy India (@GermanyinIndia) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GermanyinIndia\/status\/1693162556918210966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India) was launched in 2016, the UPI now clocks over 9 billion transactions a month in terms of volume come 2023. UPI integrates multiple bank accounts into a single mobile application into a single mobile application.<\/p>\n<p>Till now, Sri Lanka, France, UAE, and Singapore had partnered with Indian government on emerging fintech and payment solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in July, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that India and France have agreed to use UPI payment mechanism.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] New Delhi: Germany\u2019s federal minister for digital and transport Volker Wissing on 20 August used Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to make a payment at a vegetable shop in the national capital. Following this, the German embassy described digital infrastructure in India as one of its success stories and shared the video of Wissing using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5680,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions\/5680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}