Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Card issuers in a fix over Aadhaar

Credit card issuing banks are in a fix over Reserve Bank of India’s move to consider Aadhaar as an additional factor for authentication of credit card transactions in shops. The reason — a huge investment in upgrading credit card swipe machines and prospects of losing customers in states where Aadhaar enrolment has been slow.  RBI had constituted a working group headed by Pulak Kumar Sinha, general manager, State Bank of India, to study the feasibility of Aadhaar as an additional factor for authentication of card-swiped transactions and the panel is set to submit its report by the month-end............

Read - TOI

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