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ET Product of the Year Awards 2026: Recognising the infrastructure powering India’s digital financeThe prestigious ET Fintech Infrastructure Product of the Year award highlights groundbreaking platforms that make financial technology more...- UPI charges from October 15: FAQs on who will pay 0.4% MDR and what consumers, small vendors & large merchants need to knowUPI Payment: UPI transactions of up to Rs 2,000 will continue to be free for users. A new Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) will be introduced f...
- BharatPe backs new UPI MDR framework, distances itself from former CEO Ashneer Grover’s criticismBharatPe supports the new UPI merchant transaction framework. The company clarified co-founder Ashneer Grover's views are his own. This new...
- Return of MDR a key step towards making UPI sustainable and enabling further growth: ExpertsEffective October 15, UPI payments to merchants (P2M) above Rs 2,000 will attract a 0.4% merchant discount rate with an overall cap of Rs 3...
- UPI transactions above Rs 2,000 to attract 0.4% MDR; check key detailsNPCI will introduce a Merchant Discount Rate on select P2M UPI transactions starting October 15. Merchants will pay 0.4% on transactions ex...
- RBI backs MDR on large-value UPI transactions, says could help expand UPI acceptanceThe Reserve Bank of India supports Merchant Discount Rate on large UPI transactions. This move aims to ensure the long-term sustainability ...
- UPI MDR seen as sustenance fee, not windfall; small merchants remain shieldedA new merchant discount rate will fund UPI's expanding infrastructure costs. Large value person-to-merchant transactions above two thousand...
- ‘Open is the word’: Juspay’s Ishan Sharma on population-scale payments, agentic payments and building from India for the worldIn an exclusive interview with The Economic Times at the Global Fintech Fest 2026, Juspay’s Ishan Sharma reflected on 12 years of solving p...
- UPI MDR a welcome move, will help support infra for growing digital payments: Mohandas PaiThe central government's decision regarding MDR and UPI is a welcome move that will help fund the infrastructure needed to support rapidly ...
- Paytm wins, but ATM also wins! Why CMS Info Systems shares jumped 7% on UPI MDRCMS Info Systems shares rose on Wednesday after the government announced MDR on select UPI transactions above Rs 2,000, making the company ...
- NPCI announces MDR for UPI; merchant transactions above Rs 2,000 to attract 0.4% chargeWhile NPCI has not specified a threshold based on the size of a merchant’s turnover, it said in its announcement that vendors operating und...
- UPI Charges Explained: Will you pay a fee for Rs 2,000+ UPI payments? Government clarifies what users need to knowUPI Payment Charges Rules: Ordinary UPI users will not pay transaction fees for payments above Rs 2,000. Person-to-person UPI transactions ...
- Mutual funds, stocks UPI payments to attract 0.02% MDR under new NPCI frameworkNew UPI rules will introduce a 0.02% merchant discount rate for capital market transactions. This special rate applies to mutual funds and ...
- No smartphone, no internet? PhonePe brings UPI to 220 million feature-phone usersAt the Global Fintech Fest 2026 in Mumbai, PhonePe announced UPI 123Pay support for its app on feature phones, taking the SMS-based, intern...
- Stage being set for levying UPI transaction fee: Cong slams govtCongress criticizes the government's UPI transaction notification. The party claims this move sets a stage for future user fees. This notif...
- Paytm shares drop 3% after govt shields UPI payments only up to Rs 2,000 from charges. Should you buy the dip?Paytm shares fell after the government directed banks and payment providers not to charge for UPI transactions up to Rs 2,000, raising unce...
- The next phase of India’s digital payments dominance: Trusted AI-led agentic commerce, Visa’s Sethi saysIndia’s digital payments ecosystem is a “showcase for the world”. The infrastructure is ready to take the next leap: agentic commerce, wher...
- AI-led payments will need strong risk checks as trust remains critical: Amazon Pay India CEOAs artificial intelligence increasingly makes digital payments more contextual and automated, strong risk checks will remain critical to ma...
- NPCI reports 12% slump in FY26 net profit to Rs 1,362 croreNPCI generates revenues primarily by operating digital payment infrastructures such as UPI, IMPS (Immediate Payment Service), AePS (Aadhaar...
- India seeks payment-system links in every FTA, Commerce Secy says: ReportIndia aims to link its payment systems with trading partners in new agreements. This strategy seeks to make cross-border payments faster an...
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