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Understand the meaning and full form of MDR (Merchant Discount Rate), how it works in digital payments, and why it is important for merchants and banks. Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) is a fee paid by businesses to payment processors for accepting digital payments via credit cards, debit cards, UPI, and more. An MDR analyst, drawing on their deep knowledge of adversary behavior, can identify this novel threat through intuition and an understanding of the attacker's intent. What is MDR? The full form of MDR is Merchant Discount Rate. This is a fee that a merchant is charged by their issuing bank for accepting payments from their customers via credit and debit cards. MDR compensates the bank issuing the card, the bank which installs the PoS (Point of Sale) terminal and network providers (MasterCard and Visa), and payment gateways for their services. MDR charges are proportionally shared between the merchant and the bank, and the charges are expressed as a ...