From now, no OTP will be required for payments under Rs 2,000
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Is it only for Uber Paytm and ola or for all sites and only for debit card? What about security. I know many times frauds calling me with all the card details except otp. So now they can use the card hacked without otp. I don’t understand why
They can complete the payment by entering a password authenticated by the card network. So nothing is gonna change for many of us as some banks already allow to use either OTP or Transaction password knows as Mastercard secure code/VBV code.
Understanding the RBI’s removal of 2FA for transactions under Rs 2,000
Card payment companies have finally got what they’ve been asking for: To boost online transactions through cards, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has removed the additional factor of authentication (AFA) for payments up to Rs 2,000. However, for this model, card issuing banks will have to offer the payment authentication solutions of the respective card networks to their customers on an optional basis.
Customers opting for this facility will go through a one-time registration process requiring entry of card details, etc. and AFA by the issuing bank. Thereafter, the registered customers will not be required to re-enter the card details for every transaction at merchant locations that offer this solution.
In this model, the card details already registered would be the first factor of authentication. The credentials used to login to the solution (as confirmed by the card network providing the solution) would be the additional factor of authentication.
Mastercard has a payment authentication solution in form of MasterCard Securecode while Visa has a similar offering via Visa Checkout. No word from RuPay regarding such a service yet.
However, it is unclear if a customer will always be logged into these payment authentication solutions or if they have to enter a password to authenticate the transaction. We have contacted MasterCard and several banks regarding this and will update once we hear from them.
Does this mean there can be an auto-debit from a card?
Many International online services, such as Netflix, allow auto-debit without a second factor of authentication, because it uses a foreign payment gateway, and doesn’t to comply with Indian norms. The changes norms announced by the RBI do mean that the same option will work for Indian payment gateways. So, for example, customers will still have to enter their three digit CVV number to process the payment for paying for a ride on Uber. The RBI’s new rule only eliminates the need to enter the OTP sent by a bank to authenticate a transaction, or the usage of Verified by Visa or 3D secure.
Note that payment gateway PayU Biz has a solution which will process card payments without the need of a customer to need their CVV number. Under the PCI-DSS rules (a set of international compliance norms) CVV numbers cannot be stored by a payment gateway. PayU, however, said that it does not store customers’ CVV numbers and declined to give details on how the company managed to work around entering the CVV and said that it is patent pending.
How it worked earlier
Earlier, to process card-not-present transactions, here were the steps a customer had to enter:
– Enter card details if it is not stored by a service.
– Enter CVV number.
– To process checkout, the payment gateway would route customer to a bank’s page where an OTP would be generated by the bank. Else a customer would need to enter a password which would be authenticated by a card network such as Visa and MasterCard.
– Customer would then be redirected to the merchants page to get a confirmation.
Opinion :
1. A prudent approach: The RBI seems to have taken a prudent approach which, at the moment, seems to appease all the parties involved. Customers will be happy as this is an opt-in approach and online merchants will have to take explicit consent.
2. CVV is the customers only line of defence in this mechanism
Remember 2FA is based on the following security principle:
– First factor of authentication is what a customer has (card number)
– Second factor of authentication is what a customer knows (in this case, a password)
Many websites and mobile services have auto-logins and if a phone gets compromised, the CVV number (which a customer only knows), is the only defense against fraudulent transactions. As such, PayU Biz’s CVV-less transaction solutions undermines the security of a customer.
It’s a bad move.
News from just 2 days back -
NO SIR!
This is very PRUDENT approach (they haven’t forgot to mention it twice to pat their own back)
and
This is very ELEGANT solution (the babudom still plagues this country,never question the ‘afsar’ saab…he is smarter than you)
RBI Circular :
We don’t have to load Paytm for the Uber anymore. More card offers on Uber is on the way!