{"id":1036763,"date":"2026-09-18T10:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036763"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:22:50","slug":"bharatpe-backs-new-upi-mdr-framework-distances-itself-from-ashneer-grovers-remarks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/18\/bharatpe-backs-new-upi-mdr-framework-distances-itself-from-ashneer-grovers-remarks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BharatPe backs new UPI MDR framework; distances itself from Ashneer Grover\u2019s 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 co-founder and CEO Ashneer Grover. <\/p>\n<p>Clarifying that Grover\u2019s remarks do not reflect the company\u2019s stance, BharatPe said his views were made strictly in an individual capacity.<\/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 co-founder and CEO Ashneer Grover. Clarifying that Grover\u2019s remarks do not reflect the company\u2019s stance, BharatPe said his views were made strictly in an individual capacity.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036763","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=1036763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036789,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036763\/revisions\/1036789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}