India, May 11 -- Digital payments giant Google Pay has rolled out a new feature that will allow users from the US to transfer money to users in India and Singapore. The company will expand the feature further to allow US-based users to send money to people in over 200 countries.

The remittance feature currently allows only Google Pay's US users to send money to those in India and Singapore and not the other way around. Josh Woodward, director of product management at Google, in a conversation with TechCrunch said that the company picked India and Singapore because of how crucial they are in the remittances world.

According to a World Bank report, India was the largest country for remittances in 2019, receiving more than $80 Bn. The US w...