{"id":1036119,"date":"2026-09-17T08:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036119"},"modified":"2026-09-17T08:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:43:34","slug":"new-mdr-norms-for-upi-to-add-more-revenue-bottom-line-to-business-paytm-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/17\/new-mdr-norms-for-upi-to-add-more-revenue-bottom-line-to-business-paytm-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"New MDR norms for UPI to add more revenue, bottom line to business: Paytm CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The introduction of Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on large-value UPI transactions will add more revenue and profit to the company, Paytm parent One97 Communications founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The government has introduced a 0.4% fee on UPI transfers exceeding Rs 2,000 to merchants from October 15, while explicitly ring-fencing everyday person-to-person transactions as well as small payments from any charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The introduction of Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on large-value UPI transactions will add more revenue and profit to the company, Paytm parent One97 Communications founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma said on Wednesday. The government has introduced a 0.4% fee on UPI transfers exceeding Rs 2,000 to merchants from October 15, while explicitly ring-fencing everyday person-to-person transactions as well as small payments from any charge.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036119","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=1036119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036141,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036119\/revisions\/1036141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}