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Use Aadhaar and EMV both for retail payments

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published Published on Jun 19, 2013   modified Modified on Jun 19, 2013
-The Economic Times


An RBI-appointed panel of bankers will decide on the appropriate technology for retail payments in a month. And the choice is reportedly between Aadhaar, the biometric-based unique identity system, and EMV, a globally accepted technology standard for credit card, debit card and ATM transactions, used by Visa and MasterCard. This is baffling. Why should it be one technology standard or the other? Both Aadhaar and EMV should co-exist as payment standards. The incremental cost to modify the point of sale or payment acquiring terminal would be insignificant.

The government plans to use Aadhaar to disburse subsidies across the country. The system is supposed to be robust. So, there is no reason why the infrastructure cannot be extended for payments at merchant establishments.

Today, the thumbprint of a person with an Aadhaar number is suffice know-your-customer data to open a no-frills bank account and operate micro-ATMs. The person should also be able to use her thumb-print to authenticate payments at machines capable of reading biometric data, querying the UID database to verify her identity and access the related bank account to debit the account and credit the merchant account.

Of course, banks will have to procure biometric readers and the same terminal would connect to two different authentication processes. So what? EMV depends on cards with embedded integrated circuits.

Such cards with chips are an improvement on cards with magnetic strips, whose data can be skimmed relatively easily. But chips and pins are no match for biometric data unique to each individual. When someone with Aadhaar ID uses his thumb print to authenticate himself, that should be the most secure. For those without Aadhaar, EMV should remain an option.


The Economic Times, 19 June, 2013, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/editorial/use-aadhaar-and-emv-both-for-retail-payments/articleshow/20656958.cms


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