# Inside India newsletter: The world’s largest real-time payments system will no longer be free for all

https://mins.news/en/item/61860

- CNBC, 2026-09-17 00:33 UTC
- Economy
- Original: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/17/upi-payments-visa-amazon-phonepe.html

> India’s digital payments system, which currently processes more than 1 million transactions every two minutes at no cost, is set to begin charging merchants.

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