{"id":21806,"date":"2025-09-18T19:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulseonline.co\/?page_id=21806"},"modified":"2025-09-18T19:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:12:15","slug":"first-in-india-contactless-cross-border-payments-via-google-pay-and-visa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/first-in-india-contactless-cross-border-payments-via-google-pay-and-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"First in India: Contactless Cross-Border Payments via Google Pay and Visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Cook India has become the <strong>first forex card provider in the country to enable contactless cross-border payments<\/strong> through a new partnership with <strong>Google Pay and Visa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This milestone allows customers to simply add their Thomas Cook forex cards \u2014 Borderless Travel, One Currency, Study Buddy, and EnterpriseFX \u2014 to Google Pay and make <strong>swift, secure payments overseas<\/strong> using just their mobile phones. The feature works for both <strong>tap-and-pay at retail outlets<\/strong> and <strong>online transactions<\/strong>, while Google Pay\u2019s <strong>network tokenisation<\/strong> ensures enhanced security.<\/p>\n<p>The launch comes at a time when India\u2019s travel and payments landscape is rapidly going digital. UPI processed over <strong>16.5 billion transactions worth \u20b923.49 lakh crore in October 2024<\/strong> alone \u2014 a 45% jump from the previous year. Thomas Cook has also seen <strong>20%+ of its forex business come from digital platforms<\/strong>, including its website, apps and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>This new solution aims to make <strong>travel payments effortless<\/strong> for Indian customers\u2014across accommodation, transport, dining, shopping and more\u2014while eliminating the need to carry physical cards.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Key Benefits:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Easy addition of Thomas Cook forex cards to Google Pay<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Quick, contactless mobile payments<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Extra security with tokenisation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">No need to carry physical cards, avoiding risk of loss\/theft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Global acceptance across 95 countries<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Deepesh Varma<\/strong>, Executive Vice President \u2013 Foreign Exchange, said, \u201cIndia\u2019s young, digital-savvy travellers expect faster and safer ways to pay. By simply adding their Thomas Cook forex cards to Google Pay, they can now make secure contactless payments worldwide\u2014without carrying physical cards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rishi Chhabra<\/strong>, Country Manager, India at Visa, added, \u201cAs overseas travel surges, especially among millennials and Gen Z, this collaboration delivers the fast, safe, mobile-first payment experience they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Cook India has become the first forex card provider in the country to enable contactless cross-border payments through a new partnership with Google Pay and Visa. This milestone allows customers to simply add their Thomas Cook forex cards \u2014 Borderless Travel, One Currency, Study Buddy, and EnterpriseFX \u2014 to Google Pay and make swift,&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/first-in-india-contactless-cross-border-payments-via-google-pay-and-visa\/\">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\/21806"}],"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=21806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21890,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21806\/revisions\/21890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}