Google is thinking about bringing digital payment services to India

India's big push to go digital and embrace epayment solutions could soon have the backing of a major player: Google.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said today the company is thinking and working hard to bring some of its services that will work on top of the Unified Payments Interface. The UPI is India's audacious project to make person-to-person and e-commerce transactions swifter and easier.

Speaking about UPI, Pichai said, "I think it's a bold and courageous move and it is a platform shift for the underlying economy to try and digitize how cash moves around and we are excited by it," he said in an interview with NDTV, adding that such major moves often take time to play out.  Read more...