PhonePe tokenises 1.4 Crore debit & credit cards

Phonepe, india’s leading fintech platform, announced that it has tokenised 1.4 crore (14 mn) debit and credit cards on its platform. That is as according to rbi’s card tokenisation mandate to assist manipulate the risk of fraudulent activities, and comfortable customers’ card records.

Phonepe is currently some of the top digital payment players driving tokenisation underneath its safecard tokenisation solution. Following rbi’s guiding principle, phonepe had commenced creating tokens in december 2021 and become the primary in the bills surroundings to provision tokens with all three important card networks – visa, credit card and rupay. Presently, over 80 percent of phonepe’s active customers have already tokenised their cards, and the employer is on course to satisfy rbi’s september 30th closing date.

Phonepe also commenced processing token primarily based transactions as early as april 2022, and currently approaches nearly all eligible transactions through tokens, making it one of the market leaders in processing token transactions. The achievement rate of transactions processed through tokens on phonepe has shown an improvement of ~2 percent in contrast with card based totally transactions, during the last few weeks.

Commenting at the improvement, deep agrawal, head of payments at phonepe stated, “we believe card tokenisation is a totally progressive move by way of the rbi, and we are on the right track to fulfill the september thirtieth cut-off date. Phonepe safecard answer permits our customers and service provider companions to keep experiencing the ease of saved card transactions with improved protection. For clients, their card info are stored best by the company banks and card networks, minimising the danger of records leakage and transaction fraud. For merchants, more secure transactions translate to customer confidence in the use of cards on on-line platforms, thereby supporting merchants witness boom in average transactions.’’