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NPCI's RuPay goes live on CVV-less payments for tokenized cardholders

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on Monday said RuPay has now introduced the CVV (Card Verification Value) free payment experience for its debit, credit and prepaid cardholders who have tokenized their cards on the merchant application or webpage. This new CVV-less experience ensures that the cardholder will not have to reach out to their wallet or remember any card details, if they have saved (tokenized) their card on the ecommerce merchant which supports this feature, NPCI said in a statement. Tokenization is a simple technology to secure card transactions without sharing the clear or real card details with the merchants. When a cardholder opts to save their card for a domestic ecommerce transaction, they authenticate the transaction through the card details (Card number, CVV, Card expiry date) as a one time activity followed by entering the OTP (two-factor authentication), the details are then Tokenized and saved with the merchant, it said. This safeguards the c

NPCI plans more tie-ups to boost global acceptability of RuPay debit cards

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is exploring options for further tie-ups to strengthen the global acceptability of RuPay debit cards. Currently, RuPay cards are accepted at the points of sale (PoS) machine powered by Discover of the US, Diners Club, JCB of Japan, Pulse and Union Pay of China. This needs to be strengthened, and NPCI is working in this direction so that users of RuPay cards are at par with those using Visa or Mastercard, sources said. In March 2012, RuPay went global by tying up with Discover Financial Services to bring international services to Indians. It has strengthened its network capabilities by launching RuPay JCB Global Card in association with JCB International Co Ltd in July 2019. The RuPay JCB Global card can be used at RuPay card accepting points in India and JCB card accepting points outside India for PoS, E-Commerce and ATM. RuPay, a product of NPCI, is the domestic card payment network of India, with wide acceptance at ATMs, POS devices

Top card cos to go live with UPI-linked RuPay credit card feature by June

The feature seeks to include 50 million UPI merchants in the formal credit economy and drive consumption in a big way

HDFC Bank goes live on 'Rupay Credit on UPI' feature for customers

Credit cards can be linked to a UPI identity for secure payment transactions

JCB to enter mass segment to achieve 30-fold spike in card base in 5 years

The firm has reached the milestone of issuing one million Rupay JCB cards in India

BHIM dilemma: Transaction value high, but volumes way lower than rivals

From accounting for a quarter of all UPI transactions, app now has a share of just 0.76%

GST not payable on Govt incentive to banks for promoting RuPay card

Incentives paid by the government to banks for promoting RuPay debit cards and low-value BHIM-UPI transactions will not attract GST, the Finance Ministry said. Last week the Cabinet cleared a Rs 2,600-crore incentive scheme for banks to promote RuPay debit cards and low-value BHIM-UPI transactions in the current fiscal. Under the Incentive scheme for the promotion of RuPay Debit Cards and low-value BHIM-UPI transactions, the government pays banks an incentive as a percentage of the value of RuPay Debit card transactions and low-value BHIM-UPI transactions up to Rs 2,000. The Payments and Settlements Systems Act, 2007 prohibits banks and system providers from charging any amount from a person making or receiving payments through RuPay Debit cards or BHIM. In a circular to chief commissioners of GST, the Ministry said the incentive is in the nature of a subsidy directly linked to the price of the service and the same does not form part of the taxable value of the transaction in view

Cabinet clears Rs 2,600 cr to promote RuPay debit card, BHIM transactions

The scheme was first announced in FY22 Budget with a financial outlay of Rs 1,300 crore

Singapore, UAE to accept RuPay payment mechanism: Nirmala Sitharaman

Nirmala Sitharaman said that Singapore and UAE have shown interest to accept the RuPay payment system acceptable in their countries

Industry prepared for potential disruptions as tokenisation nears

industry insiders say, the success rate of token-based transactions is higher, but inadequate testing of certain use-cases may result in some transactions not going through

NPCI sets Oct 31 as deadline to activate offline payments on RuPay cards

The move will breathe life into the RBI's January 3 framework which sought to give a fillip to offline payments and lead to the activation of the One Nation, One Card for on-the-go payments

Idea is to generally link credit cards with UPI: RBI executive director

There was lack of clarity on whether the RBI will extend this facility to credit cards of other card networks, such as Visa, Mastercard, etc

Big Tech in financial system poses concentration risk: Shaktikanta Das

'Unbridled mushrooming of digital lending apps is a material concern'

ONDC and UPI together will reorder India's supply chain: Nandan Nilekani

Speaking at the Global Fintech Fest 2022, he said the supply chain will become far more efficient and will help reach products and services to everyone much more easily

Other nations showing interest in India's payment ecosystem: FM Sitharaman

India leading the way in building an inclusive financial world, she says

The case for pricing UPI transactions and what's at stake for banks

Banks pay a switching fee running into hundreds of crores every year for UPI, but have to offer the service for free

Linking RuPay credit cards with UPI a game-changer, but pain points remain

It could well be argued that had UPI been profitable for banks, they may have been able to settle for a lower MDR on RuPay credit cards

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Merchant discount rate on UPI-RuPay credit cards likely to be 2%

NPCI set to seek RBI nod for scheme; free swipes at smaller outlets

RuPay credit card-UPI linkage to be operational in 2 months, says NPCI CEO

NPCI will come up with the guidelines in consultation with the ecosystem. It will send a formal proposal to the RBI, and after the apex bank's nod, it will be operationalised.