India, Dec. 6 -- Indian Financial Services Secretary M. Nagaraju has said New Delhi is currently in talks with about eight countries, including those in East Asia, to make UPI payments acceptable.

"We are now talking to about 7-8 countries, including many in East Asia, to have UPI transactions," Nagaraju was quoted as saying by The Hindu while speaking at a conference on Harnessing AI and digital public infrastructure for Viksit Bharat.

"Some of the trade negotiations we are doing with some of the countries now, we are trying to have a track on UPI so that the fintech industry which is deeply involved in UPI also have a foot in the financial sector where we have the cost, scale advantage and we want to leverage that advantage to the ben...