{"id":1036773,"date":"2026-09-18T10:51:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036773"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:29:17","slug":"rediff-coms-ipo-plans-may-get-a-fresh-upi-tailwind-as-new-mdr-regime-kicks-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/18\/rediff-coms-ipo-plans-may-get-a-fresh-upi-tailwind-as-new-mdr-regime-kicks-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Rediff.com&#8217;s IPO plans may get a fresh UPI tailwind as new MDR regime kicks in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], September 17 (ANI): Rediff.com&#8217;s upcoming initial public offering (IPO) may find additional monetisation avenues as a result of the government&#8217;s decision to levy a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) of 0.4% on select high-value UPI merchant transactions, market analysts said after the new regime was announced on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The framework, which comes into effect from October 15, discontinues a zero-MDR for large-ticket merchant UPI payments as the government moves to a tiered pricing model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], September 17 (ANI): Rediff.com&#8217;s upcoming initial public offering (IPO) may find additional monetisation avenues as a result of the government&#8217;s decision to levy a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) of 0.4% on select high-value UPI merchant transactions, market analysts said after the new regime was announced on Tuesday. The framework, which comes into effect from October 15, discontinues a zero-MDR for large-ticket merchant UPI payments as the government moves to a tiered pricing model.<\/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-1036773","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\/1036773","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=1036773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036797,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036773\/revisions\/1036797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}