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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Digital payments push may blow Rs3,800 crore annual hole in banks: report

Digital payments push may blow Rs3,800 crore annual hole in banks: report

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published Published on Sep 29, 2017   modified Modified on Sep 29, 2017
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After demonetisation last November, the Narendra Modi government has pushed banks into deploying millions of points-of-sale (PoS) machines to encourage online payments

Mumbai:
The government’s digital payments push, mainly online card payments through point-of-sale (PoS) machines, may leave already capital starved banks bleed by a whopping Rs3,800 crore annually, warns a report.

After demonetisation last November, the Narendra Modi government has pushed banks into deploying millions of points-of-sale (PoS) machines to encourage online payments. Since then, banks have more than doubled their PoS terminals.

The number of PoS terminals post-demonetisation has increased from 13.8 lakh in March 2016 to 28.4 lakh as of July 2017. On an average banks are installing 5,000 PoS per day. This has resulted in increase in debit plus credit cards transactions at PoS from Rs51,900 crore in October 2016 to Rs68,500 crore in July 2017, with peak reaching in December 2016 to Rs89,200 crore.

“We estimate that for OFF-US transactions, the aggregate annual loss for card transactions at PoS terminals around is Rs4,700 crore. However, the net revenue gain per annum from ON-US transactions at PoS would be around Rs900 crore only. Therefore, the total annual loss to the banking industry is around Rs3,800 crore,” SBI Research said in a report on Thursday.

The payment card industry is based on a four-party model—the issuing bank, acquiring bank, merchant and the customer. The transactions at PoS are termed as ON-US transactions if the issuing bank and acquiring bank are the same bank. If the issuing bank and acquiring bank are different entities, then it is known as OFF-US transactions. The acquiring bank bears the entire cost to create the infrastructure for PoS terminals, clearing and settlement, merchant training, terminal maintenance, and supply of consumables among others.

The issuing bank involves the cost of issuing the cards and also manages other risks relate to card holders like failed transactions and frauds. Acquiring bank receives revenues only in the form of MDR (merchant discount rate) and monthly rental.

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Livemint.com, 28 September, 2017, http://www.livemint.com/Industry/q6dnJWF2wgJMkkIIszar1I/Digital-payments-push-may-blow-Rs3800-crore-annual-hole-in.html


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