{
  "id": 15511027,
  "title": "Indian Consumers Embrace Cash Ahead of New Instant Payment Fees",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/18/indian-consumers-embrace-cash-ahead-of-new-instant-payment-fees",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-18T22:55:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/real-time-payments/2026/indian-consumers-embrace-cash-ahead-of-new-instant-payment-fees/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Indian consumers are reportedly increasing their cash usage ahead of new fees on the country’s popular digital payment system. Beginning next month, the United Payments Interface (UPI) system will apply a small fee on all transactions greater than 2,000 rupees, or around $21. But as the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (Oct. 18), that change […] The post Indian Consumers Embrace Cash Ahead of…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}