Infibeam’s CCAvenue brings TokenPay for RBI-compliant ‘saved card transactions’

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Infibeam Avenues Ltd’s digital payments platform, CCAvenue has launched an interoperable solution ‘TokenPay’ for businesses/merchants to comply with Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) data security norms.

As the “saved cards transactions” are taking a hit, due to RBI directive prohibiting merchants, businesses, payment aggregators, and acquiring banks from storing customers’ credit/ debit /prepaid card information, IAL’s CCAvenue has developed a multi-network tokenisation solution to work across all major card networks.

CCAvenue’s ‘TokenPay’ solution works across all major card networks, including MasterCard, RuPay, and Visa.

Also it would help merchants enable their end-customer to continue experiencing the saved card transactions with enhanced security and allow merchants to remain RBI guideline compliant with its online data storage norms.

Tokens

Network tokenisation is the process of substituting the 16-digit static card number with a string of randomly generated numbers called ‘token’, which is virtually impossible to decrypt.

Also, since the framework ensures that a customer’s card information rests only with the customer, the card network, and the issuing bank, it minimises the risk of card data leaks and fraudulent activities significantly.

“In the absence of tokenisation, customers will have to enter their card information manually every time they transact online. This can increase the probability of manual error leading to transaction failures and a bad customer experience. Using CCAvenue’s TokenPay, businesses can generate, process and manage tokens with customers’ consent and continue offering a secure and frictionless online transaction experience,” said Vishwas Patel, Executive Director, Infibeam Avenues and Founder of CCAvenue.

As per the new RBI recommended framework, only card networks and card issuers are permitted to store customer card information. “Thus, the new system authorises businesses/merchants to use only ‘tokens’ to continue offering the saved card experience during online payments. All stakeholders are required to be fully compliant with the tokenisation framework by December 31, 2021,” a company statement said.

Merchants using other payment gateways can also tokenize cards through CCAvenue and continue using their preferred gateways to process token-based transactions, the statement added.

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Infibeam eyes short-term lending for SMEs, merchants

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Payment gateway and e-commerce platform service provider Infibeam Avenues Limited has forayed into the short to medium-term credit/lending services for merchant establishments and small businesses. It will partner with banks and non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) for the same.

The AI and data-driven technology platform will facilitate banks and NBFCs to tap the short-term and medium-term credit requirements of the SMEs, MSMEs and merchants for a duration of three months to 18 months.

The company looks at lending as an enabler by offering credit algorithm, credit platform, frameworks and merchant database.

Speaking to Businessline, R Srikanth, Global President – Finance and Investor Relations – Infibeam Avenues, said the company will continue investing in the platform for the current year, while it looks at revenues to start flowing from next fiscal.

“We are getting into this AI-driven credit and lending space from this quarter onward. As a payments gateway player, we can’t get exposed to the credit risk, so we will need to have bank and NBFC to take the credit risk. We will provide them with the tech solutions and framework,” said Srikanth.

The global market for short-term lending business is estimated at about $100 billion. “Even with a 1 per cent share from that market will give us a big loan portfolio,” he added. Currently, Infibeam has over 3 million merchants on Infibeam’s platform and it looks to reach 10-million mark soon.

The company plans to keep the new business asset-light and digital-only, targeting merchants in factoring (bill discounting) business.

With the recent passing of factoring law amendments, enabling more than 9,000 non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) to participate in the factoring (bill discounting), Infibeam Avenues has set its course to tap the Indian factoring market space, which is estimated to be worth $6 billion.

Srikanth also added that with the government push and increased adoption for digital bill payments, the company registered highest-ever quarterly volume of 55 million transactions for the April-June period. In July-September 2020, the volumes had touched 50 million.

“The market is very supportive. And with strong push for digital economy, we are seeing physical stores getting converted into online retailing. Currently, the share of digital transactions is 18 per cent and non-digital is 82 per cent. Now more people are shifting from non-digital to digital and the biggest beneficiaries of this trend is the payment gateway companies,” said Srikanth.

At the 55 million transactions for the current quarter, company reported processing value of ₹50,000 crore. On consolidated basis, company’s net revenues for the quarter grew 3 per cent to ₹52 crore against ₹51 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. Consolidated profit after tax increased 14 per cent to ₹13 crore for the quarter against ₹12 crore in the same period last year.

Infibeam Avenues shares were down 2.7 per cent on the BSE to close at ₹43.30 on Tuesday.

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