{"id":1036513,"date":"2026-09-18T08:01:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036513"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:38:56","slug":"bharatpe-backs-new-upi-mdr-framework-distances-itself-from-ashneer-grovers-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/18\/bharatpe-backs-new-upi-mdr-framework-distances-itself-from-ashneer-grovers-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"BharatPe backs new UPI MDR framework; distances itself from Ashneer Grover&#8217;s remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fintech firm BharatPe on Thursday came out in strong support of the new Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) framework for UPI merchant transactions, while firmly distancing itself from statements made by its former cofounder and CEO Ashneer Grover. <\/p>\n<p>Clarifying that Grover&#8217;s remarks do not reflect the company&#8217;s stance, BharatPe said his views were made strictly in an individual capacity. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Grover has had no association with BharatPe since 2024 and is neither a shareholder nor associated with the company in any capacity,&#8221; a company spokesperson said, urging the media not to attribute his statements to the firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fintech firm BharatPe on Thursday came out in strong support of the new Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) framework for UPI merchant transactions, while firmly distancing itself from statements made by its former cofounder and CEO Ashneer Grover. Clarifying that Grover&#8217;s remarks do not reflect the company&#8217;s stance, BharatPe said his views were made strictly in an individual capacity. &#8220;Grover has had no association with BharatPe since 2024 and is neither a shareholder nor associated with the company in any capacity,&#8221; a company spokesperson said, urging the media not to attribute his statements to the firm.<\/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-1036513","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\/1036513","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=1036513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036535,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036513\/revisions\/1036535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}