The record
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- The Indian government has announced a new UPI payment framework that clarifies which transactions will attract charges and which will remain free.
- Person-to-person UPI payments will remain completely free of any charge, regardless of the amount, and such payments account for roughly 70 per cent of total UPI transaction value.
- Merchant payments up to Rs 2,000 will attract no merchant discount rate, and these cover more than 95 per cent of all person-to-merchant UPI transactions.
- Merchant transactions above Rs 2,000 will carry a 0.4 per cent merchant discount rate capped at Rs 300, while sectors like fuel, railways, telecom and insurance will pay a flat Rs 5 on transactions above Rs 2,000.
- The framework matters because merchants, not customers, must bear the MDR burden, though users worry shops may raise prices to recover the cost.
What to watch next
- Whether merchants pass on the MDR cost to customers through higher prices despite government instructions to banks.
- How banks and payment service providers share the MDR revenue among UPI ecosystem stakeholders.
- Whether the government clarifies or revises rates following public concern over the first-ever MDR on large merchant transactions.
Why it matters3
Who is affected first and what likely follows, with a direction and a horizon. Extracted from the reports, never invented.
- Indian consumers and P2P users fee structure maintained· immediate
- High-value commercial merchants cost increase· immediate
- Payment aggregators and acquiring banks revenue model shift· weeks
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