The Economic Times

Added security call may hit online biz
27 Jul 2009, 0012 hrs IST, Harsimran Singh, ET Bureau

NEW DELHI: The new Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guidelines, which becomes effective from August 1, to provide a third-factor identification for all online transactions may trigger a 25-30% decline in daily business.

The mandatory third verification is in addition to the card number and the three- or four-digit card verification value (CVV) number that appears on the back of a credit card.

The new norm will introduce a third screen to the processing steps and will make the online transaction longer in a country where low bandwidth has already made e-commerce a time-consuming and tedious process.


It could potentially throw the $2-billion B2C commerce out of gear. Says Jankiraman Murugavel, founder CEO of BharatMatrimony.com: “As it is the internet speed in India is dismally low. It takes a lot of time to complete a transaction. With this move, an additional third screen will be created which might drop transactions further.”

The RBI has asked banks to provide credit card users with an additional authentication / validation password for all online card transactions.

RBI’s purpose behind these guidelines is to enhance the security of online transactions, so as to reduce online credit / debit card fraud.
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