{"id":1040336,"date":"2026-10-02T08:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040336"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:44:44","slug":"upi-transaction-volume-value-falls-by-1-5-to-rs-29-37-lakh-crore-in-september-ahead-of-mdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/02\/upi-transaction-volume-value-falls-by-1-5-to-rs-29-37-lakh-crore-in-september-ahead-of-mdr\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI transaction volume, value falls by 1.5% to Rs 29.37 lakh crore in September ahead of MDR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unified Payment Interface (UPI) transaction volume and value posted 1.5% drop in September ahead of the implementation of merchant discount rate (MDR) implementation on October 15, according to the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) data. <\/p>\n<p>On a month-on-month basis, number of UPI transactions fell from 24.51 billion in August 2026 to 24.07 billion in September and transaction value fell from Rs 29.82 lakh crore in August to Rs 29.37 lakh crore in Septembe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unified Payment Interface (UPI) transaction volume and value posted 1.5% drop in September ahead of the implementation of merchant discount rate (MDR) implementation on October 15, according to the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) data. On a month-on-month basis, number of UPI transactions fell from 24.51 billion in August 2026 to 24.07 billion in September and transaction value fell from Rs 29.82 lakh crore in August to Rs 29.37 lakh crore in Septembe.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040336","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=1040336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040358,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040336\/revisions\/1040358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}