21-05-2023 09:34 via news.slashdot.org

The Country With the Most DIgital Payments: India

India's government gave nearly early household a bank account offering app-based digital money transfers, reports the Economist. But that's just the beginning:Take a walk on Mumbai's Juhu beach and little has changed in five years — except for the QR codes adorning every food stall. Go to São Paulo in Brazil, Beijing in China, or many other cities across the emerging world and you find something similar. "Most people only want to use UPI," says Govind, a seaside-snack vendor at Juhu
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