RBI To Start CoF Tokenisation Standards From Oct 1

As indicated by the RBI, the new tokenisation framework will further develop the cardholders’ payment experience

The Reserve Bank of India’s (Rbi’s) card-on-file (CoF) tokenisation standards will become effective from October 1, 2022. As indicated by the RBI, the new tokenisation framework will further develop the cardholders’ payment experience and furthermore make it more secure and more helpful.

The RBI likewise said that, after the execution of the tokenisation standards, the clients’ Visa and credit card subtleties – utilised online, retail location, and in-app exchanges – will be put away as an ‘encryoted’ token to facilitate the transaction cycle. The new tokenisation rules were planned to become effective from July 1, yet the deadline was pushed to September 30.

As per PTI report, the vast majority of the merchants have agreed with the RBI’s CoF tokenisation standards and 19.5 crore tokens have been given up until this point. The RBI last September restricted shippers from putting away client card subtleties on their servers with impact from January 1, 2022, and ordered the reception of CoF tokenisation as a choice to card capacity.

Dr. Jasmin B Gupta, Co-founder and CEO, LXME said, “Data security is of utmost importance, more so now, when there are so many wallets, online merchants and payment aggregators in the banking space. RBI’s CoF tokenisation norms are a step in the right direction to make online card transactions more secure. When cardholders create tokens or unique alternate codes in place of entering their card details, they ensure that their highly sensitive credit card or debit card data is protected from data theft or leakage. With tokenisation, all sensitive data is replaced with unique identification numbers containing randomised numbers and alphabets. These numbers retain all essential information without compromising its security.

Thus it is an excellent initiative to prevent misuse of cards by fraudsters. Under the initiative, merchants will not be allowed to save card information and will have to delete all existing cardholder information they have and replace it with token. This will go a long way in making online, pos and in-app transactions more secure.”