{
  "id": 9537515,
  "title": "What can Asia, Global South learn from India’s new digital payment fee?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/what-can-asia-global-south-learn-from-indias-new-digital-payment-fee",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-24T10:02:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3368661/what-can-asia-global-south-learn-indias-new-digital-payment-fee"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "For millions of Indians, buying a cup of chai or groceries from roadside vendors has come to mean reaching for their phones rather than wallets – a habit made possible by a system that has so far charged consumers nothing for such everyday transactions. Now, a decade after the government launched the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), India is asking some merchants to pay for the hugely popular…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Economic Times - Economy",
        "title": "New FTAs provide comfort to invest in global supply chains in India: Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agarwal",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/new-ftas-provide-comfort-to-invest-in-global-supply-chains-in-india",
        "published": "2026-09-24T12:17:39.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "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."
}