{"id":939076,"date":"2025-06-17T08:42:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T03:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=939076"},"modified":"2025-06-17T09:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T03:36:10","slug":"upi-free-ride-halts-paytm-stock-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/17\/upi-free-ride-halts-paytm-stock-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI free ride halts Paytm stock rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The finance ministry\u2019s clarification last week that there will be no imposition of Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) will not be applicable on payments made through Unified Payment Interface or UPI had again put a question mark on the sustainability of the payment gateway industry. <\/p>\n<p>No wonder, the performance of Paytm stock (One97 Communications) \u2013 the only listed payment gateway company \u2013  has been wobbly since the finance ministry\u2019s denial. The Paytm stock had been rising steadily since March, when it hit a recent low of around Rs 650 to around Rs 960 before that the \u2018no imposition of MDR\u2019 clarification came. The stock has fallen around 10% since then to close at Rs 877.30 on Monday.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finance ministry\u2019s clarification last week that there will be no imposition of Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) will not be applicable on payments made through Unified Payment Interface or UPI had again put a question mark on the sustainability of the payment gateway industry. No wonder, the performance of Paytm stock (One97 Communications) \u2013 the only listed payment gateway company \u2013 has been wobbly since the finance ministry\u2019s denial. The Paytm stock had been rising steadily since March, when it hit a recent low of around Rs 650 to around Rs 960 before that the \u2018no imposition of MDR\u2019 clarification [&hellip;]<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939076","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=939076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}