Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Use Aadhaar and EMV both for retail payments

An RBI-appointed panel of bankers will decide on the appropriate technology for retail payments in a month. And the choice is reportedly between Aadhaar, the biometric-based unique identity system, and EMV, a globally accepted technology standard for credit card, debit card and ATM transactions, used by Visa and MasterCard. This is baffling. Why should it be one technology standard or the other? Both Aadhaar and EMV should co-exist as payment standards. The incremental cost to modify the point of sale or payment acquiring terminal would be insignificant. ........

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