{"id":1035847,"date":"2026-09-16T09:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035847"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:22:57","slug":"rbi-defends-charge-on-large-value-upi-transactions-says-mdr-will-ensure-long-term-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/rbi-defends-charge-on-large-value-upi-transactions-says-mdr-will-ensure-long-term-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"RBI defends charge on large-value UPI transactions, says MDR will ensure long-term sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reserve Bank on Tuesday backed the introduction of Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on large-value UPI transactions, citing it as an important step towards strengthening the long-term sustainability of India&#8217;s digital payments ecosystem. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will help UPI in continuing to scale, innovate and serve consumers and businesses across the country,&#8221; the RBI said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reserve Bank on Tuesday backed the introduction of Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on large-value UPI transactions, citing it as an important step towards strengthening the long-term sustainability of India&#8217;s digital payments ecosystem. &#8220;It will help UPI in continuing to scale, innovate and serve consumers and businesses across the country,&#8221; the RBI said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035847","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035870,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035847\/revisions\/1035870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}