Credit card-UPI linking: Is it a good move?

While hailing RBI’s decision on linking credit cards with UPI, industry stakeholders are seeking greater clarity from the regulator on certain contentious issues, particularly on merchant discount rates or MDR.

Thursday June 09, 2022 , 3 min Read

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In a move to make the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) more inclusive, the Reserve Bank of India allowed credit cards to be linked to the payments platform, starting with the indigenous RuPay credit cards.

Welcoming the development, many industry stakeholders YourStory spoke to said that the move would benefit small businesses.

"If this takes off, we would have 10x merchants accepting credit cards in India in a few years," said Shashank Kumar, CTO and Co-founder at Razorpay.

However, the guidelines don't throw light on how merchant discount rates (MDR) will be applied for UPI transactions via credit cards. There are also questions around P2P (person-to-person) UPI transactions, merchant re-enrollments, and security.

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