The deadline for mobile wallets to become full KYC compliant was earlier set to end on August 31.
- Deadline to become KYC compliant was earlier set to end on August 31
- RBI extended the deadline by six more months on August 30
- No further extension will be granted for this purpose, RBI says
With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) extending the deadline for mobile wallets to become fully Know Your Customer (KYC) compliant, people using PhonePe, Paytm, Amazon Pay or other such wallets will have no trouble doing their transactions as usual at least till February 29, 2020. The deadline for mobile wallets to become full KYC compliant was earlier set to end on August 31. But on August 30 the RBI extended the deadline by six more months, with the warning that no further extension would be granted.
“It is advised that the timeline for conversion of minimum detail PPIs (pre-paid payment instruments) to KYC compliant PPIs has been extended from 18 months to 24 months. It may also be noted that no further extension will be granted for this purpose,” the RBI said in the notification to all PPI issuers or mobile wallet providers.
Becoming full KYC compliant would mean that the mobile wallet service providers would have to do a physical verification of their customers. Earlier, these PPI issuers made use of partial KYC, which could be completed through a smartphone.
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