RBI’s card storage rules, which prohibit merchants and payment gateways/aggregators from storing the card details of customers, were set to go into effect at the start of July, but the regulator last week extended the deadline by three months because the payments ecosystem wasn't ready. But the extension, on its own, does not really address the concerns and requests raised by the various stakeholders, people monitoring the development closely explained to MediaNama. Why does this matter? RBI's deadline has already shifted twice from December 31, 2021, to June 30, 2022, to September 31, 2022. These shifting deadlines make it look like RBI is giving sufficient time to merchants, but the concerns of the merchants lie elsewhere and without RBI addressing those, merchants will likely be in the same boat as they are now at the end of September. What are the unaddressed concerns? 1. Acquirer…
