{"id":1038661,"date":"2026-09-25T10:09:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T04:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038661"},"modified":"2026-09-25T10:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T04:58:15","slug":"consumer-impact-of-upi-mdr-charges-limited-to-around-10-pc-of-overall-value-npci-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/25\/consumer-impact-of-upi-mdr-charges-limited-to-around-10-pc-of-overall-value-npci-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer impact of UPI MDR charges limited to around 10 pc of overall value: NPCI CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 24 (ANI): The risk of consumers bearing the cost of UPI Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) charges is limited to around 10 per cent of the overall value on which MDR is collected, NPCI Managing Director and CEO Dilip Asbe said, adding that a majority of merchants are unlikely to pass the charges on to customers. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 13th SBI Banking &amp; Economics Conclave 2026, Asbe said around 75 per cent of the overall UPI transaction value is outside the charging framework and therefore has no impact from the MDR policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 24 (ANI): The risk of consumers bearing the cost of UPI Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) charges is limited to around 10 per cent of the overall value on which MDR is collected, NPCI Managing Director and CEO Dilip Asbe said, adding that a majority of merchants are unlikely to pass the charges on to customers. Speaking at the 13th SBI Banking &amp; Economics Conclave 2026, Asbe said around 75 per cent of the overall UPI transaction value is outside the charging framework and therefore has no impact from the MDR policy.<\/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-1038661","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\/1038661","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=1038661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038682,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038661\/revisions\/1038682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}