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SBI launches UPI based real-time cross border transaction facility
February 23, 2023
“The linkage will allow fund transfers from India to Singapore through registered mobile numbers and from Singapore to India using UPI ID,” the bank said in its release.
The facility will be available on SBI’s BHIM SBIPay mobile application.
“We are glad to be associated with this pathbreaking initiative. This will go a long way in boosting the digitization initiatives of the Government and provide easy, seamless cross-border payment facility to the users,” Dinesh Khara, Chairman, of the State Bank of India, said.
The initiative closely aligns with the G20’s priorities of driving faster, cheaper, and more transparent cross-border payments, the bank said in its media release.
The inward bilateral remittance between Singapore and India is around USD 949 Mn as of 2021 (as per World Bank Bilateral Remittance Matrix Dec ‘22).
Shaktikanta Das, Governor, the Reserve Bank of India, and Ravi Menon, Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore executed the first live cross-border transaction today. The RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das used BHIM SBIPay for foreign inward remittance, the release said.
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