{"id":1026774,"date":"2026-08-06T10:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026774"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:24:58","slug":"will-upi-payments-remain-free-forever-bernstein-says-consumers-likely-to-stay-unaffected-30-40-bps-mdr-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/will-upi-payments-remain-free-forever-bernstein-says-consumers-likely-to-stay-unaffected-30-40-bps-mdr-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Will UPI payments remain free forever? Bernstein says consumers likely to stay unaffected; 30-40 bps MDR possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPI users are unlikely to pay any charges even if the government decides to allow a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on UPI transactions in the future, according to a report by global brokerage firm Bernstein.<\/p>\n<p>The report, cited by ANI on 5 August, mentioned that \u201ca merchant-funded MDR of 30-40 basis points (bps) appears to be the most likely outcome if the government decides to permit such charges.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPI users are unlikely to pay any charges even if the government decides to allow a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on UPI transactions in the future, according to a report by global brokerage firm Bernstein. The report, cited by ANI on 5 August, mentioned that \u201ca merchant-funded MDR of 30-40 basis points (bps) appears to be the most likely outcome if the government decides to permit such charges.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026776,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026774\/revisions\/1026776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}