India, May 7 -- India and Ghana have agreed to "expeditiously" operationalise the homegrown unified payments interface (UPI) on Ghana interbank payment and settlement systems (GHIPSS) in the next six months.

The discussion was a part of the joint trade committee meeting between the two countries in Accra between May 2 and 3.

"Both sides agreed to work expeditiously towards the operationalization of Unified Payment Interface (UPI) of National Payments Corporation of (NPCI) on Ghana's Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GHIPSS) within a period of 6 months," said an official government statement.

The two sides also discussed the possibility of signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on digital transformation solutions, amo...