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Paytm Stocks, Paytm News & Share Price Highlights 12 June 2025
- 11:55 | June 12, 2025
Paytm share price live update: shares recover from day’s low to trade 5.8% lower on the BSE
Shares of One97 Communications, parent firm of payments aggregator Paytm, were trading at ₹902 (6.1%) lower compared with yesterday’s close) on the BSE on Thursday at about 11:55 am
- 11:53 | June 12, 2025
Paytm share price live updates: Stock price down 5.68% to ₹905.85 in NSE at 11.52 am; At BSE, shares still trade 5.87% lower at ₹903.85
- 11:40 | June 12, 2025
Paytm share price live updates: What did Payments Corporation of India say about MDR charges for UPI?
In March this year, the Payments Council of India (PCI), an industry body representing a diverse range of non-banking payment industry players, with 180 members, had submitted a letter to the government, seeking urgent reconsideration of the Zero Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) policy for Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and RuPay debit card transactions.
The financial incentive of ₹1,500 crore to offset some of the payment ecosystem’s operational costs covers only a fraction of the estimated ₹10,000 crore annual cost required to maintain and expand UPI services, according to the Payments Council of India.
Payments industry proposes introduction of MDR for RuPay debit cards for all merchants
Financial sustainability concerns in India's digital payments ecosystem due to Zero MDR policy, proposed MDR for RuPay and UPI.
- 11:37 | June 12, 2025
Paytm share price live updates: What is MDR?
Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) is a fee merchants pay to banks or payment service providers for processing digital payments like credit cards and UPI. It is calculated as a percentage of the transaction amount.
- 11:35 | June 12, 2025
Paytm share price live updates: What Finance Ministry said
- 11:25 | June 12, 2025
Paytm share price stages mild recovery; trades 5.96% lower at ₹903 on BSE at 11.24am on Thursday
- 11:02 | June 12, 2025
Paytm share price live updates: Shares slump 6.09% to trade at ₹902
After staging a mild recovery, Shares of One 97 Communications, the parent company of Paytm, continue to trend downward in NSE
- 10:49 | June 12, 2025
Paytm shares price Live: FinMin clarifies on MDR
“Speculation and claims that the MDR will be charged on UPI transactions are completely false, baseless, and misleading. Such baseless and sensation-creating speculations cause needless uncertainty, fear and suspicion among our citizens,” the Finance Ministry said in a post on X.“The Government remains fully committed to promoting digital payments via UPI,” it added.The Finance Ministry’s rebuttal came after reports in a section of media claimed that the Centre is considering reintroducing MDR on UPI transactions above Rs 3,000 in a move to support banks and payment service providers.
- 10:34 | June 12, 2025
Paytm shares dip following MDR denial. Why did the shares react?
In India, merchants pay fees to banks or payment service providers, such as Paytm, for transactions. There is no fees on UPI payments. The delay or non-introduction of the fees is “sentiment negative for Paytm”, brokerage UBS said, adding that the firm’s adjusted core profits could decline more than 10% in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 if increased incentives are absent.- Reuters
- 10:30 | June 12, 2025
Paytm shares tank on UPI clarification
Paytm shares tank on UPI clarification
One97 Communications' shares drop 7.4% as government denies introducing charge on UPI transactions.
- 10:28 | June 12, 2025
Paytm shares tanked 10% on Thursday in the morning session
Shares touched a day’s low of ₹864.20 before recovering. The previous day saw the counter close at ₹960.20
- 10:24 | June 12, 2025
FinMin denies reports around charge for UPI transactions
The Finance Ministry on Wednesday termed as “false, baseless, and misleading” speculation that the Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) will be charged on UPI transactions.
- 10:15 | June 12, 2025
Paytm shares stage mild recovery; trading 5.9% lower at 10:15 am Thursday
- 10:13 | June 12, 2025
Paytm share price live updates: Paytm slumps after Govt denies MDR return
Shares of One 97 Communications, the parent company of Paytm, dropped as much as 10% to an intraday low of ₹864.20 on the BSE on Thursday, after the Finance Ministry refuted reports about a potential reintroduction of the merchant discount rate (MDR) on UPI transactions. As of 10:22 a.m., the stock was trading 6.28% lower at ₹900.10.
- 10:12 | June 12, 2025
Paytm shares slide, trading at 7.4% on Thursday
Shares of One97 Communications declined on Thursday, a day after the Finance Ministry denied reports around charges for UPI transactions.
Published on June 12, 2025
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