{"id":16364,"date":"2023-08-06T11:04:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T11:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/?page_id=16364"},"modified":"2023-08-06T11:04:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T11:04:38","slug":"pine-labs-thomas-cook-india-partner-to-enable-upi-payments-to-merchants-for-foreign-nationals-from-g20-nations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/pine-labs-thomas-cook-india-partner-to-enable-upi-payments-to-merchants-for-foreign-nationals-from-g20-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pine Labs &amp; Thomas Cook India Partner to Enable UPI Payments to Merchants for Foreign Nationals from G20 Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Collaborated with NPCI for UPI enabled Indian Rupee payments for foreign nationals from G20 nations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Successfully completed first UPI-PPI wallet transaction for a G20 foreign national at Bengaluru Airport on February 21, 2023<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To go live at all Thomas Cook airport counters and branches<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pine Labs launches Fave Money to enable the payment process<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pine Labs, a leading merchant commerce omnichannel platform and Thomas Cook (India) Limited, have partnered with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), in a pioneering initiative to ensure safe, seamless, convenient merchant payments via UPI for foreign nationals from G20 countries. The prepaid payment product is issued by Pine Labs under the PPI authorisation obtained from RBI. This facility can be availed of on arrival, across Thomas Cook\u2019s airport counters.<span lang=\"EN-IN\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To facilitate this process, Pine Labs has launched Fave Money that allows travellers from G20 countries the ability to pay digitally via their mobile phone at millions of merchant establishments in India using UPI. The prepaid product issued by Pine Labs is powered by its proprietary issuing platform Qwikcilver, and is integrated with the Fave mobile app.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mediabtxt data_details_list-style\" data-bind=\"html:newsmediaDetailViewModel.newsmediaDetailResponseList().description\">\n<p><span lang=\"EN-IN\">Commenting on the launch, B Amrish Rau, CEO, Pine Labs<\/span><span lang=\"EN-IN\">, said,\u00a0<em>\u201cG20 Presidency was a proud moment for India. Resonating with its beautiful theme \u201cVasudhaiva Kutumbakam\u201d or \u201cOne Earth \u00b7 One Family \u00b7 One Future\u201d, we wanted to contribute towards ensuring no inconvenience comes to G20 travellers coming to India while making payments. UPI is India\u2019s incredible contribution to the world when it comes to digital payments, and a quick onboarding on the Fave app will allow these visitors to pay digitally via UPI using our Fave mobile app. We thank our partner Thomas Cook and NPCI for this pioneering collaboration.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mahesh Iyer, Executive Director &amp; CEO, Thomas Cook (India) Limited said\u00a0<em>\u201cAs India\u2019s leading foreign exchange provider, we are delighted to partner with Pine Labs &amp; NPCI to give visiting foreign nationals from G20 countries the seamless UPI experience across our gateway airports, via this collaboration.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cUPI One World is a game-changing offering that will revolutionize the way international travellers make payments in India. With the Fave app powered by Pine Lab\u2019s issuing platform Qwikcilver, travellers can easily and securely make digital payments at millions of merchant establishments equipped with UPI QRs across the country. This innovative solution is yet another step forward in our mission to make digital payments more accessible and convenient for people everywhere. We are delighted to support this initiative by Pine Labs and Thomas Cook,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said Praveena Rai, COO, NPCI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collaborated with NPCI for UPI enabled Indian Rupee payments for foreign nationals from G20 nations Successfully completed first UPI-PPI wallet transaction for a G20 foreign national at Bengaluru Airport on February 21, 2023 To go live at all Thomas Cook airport counters and branches Pine Labs launches Fave Money to enable the payment process Pine&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/pine-labs-thomas-cook-india-partner-to-enable-upi-payments-to-merchants-for-foreign-nationals-from-g20-nations\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16364"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16934,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16364\/revisions\/16934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}