Moving beyond digital payments, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the operator of Unified Payments Interface, is planning to add more muscle to the country's digital infrastructure by setting up a fourth subsidiary, NPCI Tech Solutions Ltd (NTSL).
The Reserve Bank on Thursday asked banks to provide the option of Interoperable Card-less Cash Withdrawal (ICCW) at their ATMs, a move aimed at curbing frauds like skimming, card cloning and device tampering. Currently, cardless cash withdrawal through ATMs is offered by a few banks for their customers at their own ATMs (also known as on-us basis). "All banks, ATM networks and WLAOs (White Label ATM Operators) may provide the option of ICCW at their ATMs," the central bank said in a circular.
SBI to introduce OTP-based ATM transactions and the new feature will not require any major change in the present process to withdraw cash.
RBI said its policy focus had been to encourage banks to leverage on this channel.
This will allow the bank's customers to access funds from virtually any city or town in the country. The NFS is India's largest domestic network with over 30,000 ATMs across the country and Standard Chartered's customers will now have wider coverage of ATMs available to them.
Very often we all have used Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) to withdraw money. But only a few of us think about the repercussions of an attack on a national centralised server which manages the transactions across ATMs.
The RBI plans to increase e-smart facility.
It is likely he will rope in an international ATM manufacturer as a strategic partner with equity stake.
Fund transfer through Facebook is meant for tech-savvy customers.
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