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Reining in Overreach: Why BPSPs Should Not Be Classified as Payment Systems

[Ritvij Ratn Tiwari is a 5th-year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru] In February 2024, the Reserve Bank of India (‘RBI’) moved decisively to curtail the operations of certain fintech companies, particularly Business Payment Service Providers (‘BPSPs’), by labelling their activities as unauthorized “payment systems” under the Payment...

Navigating RBI’s Payment Aggregator Directives: A Merchant Perspective

[Pratishtha Shrivastava is a 3rd Year B.A.,LL.B student at Institute of Law, Nirma University] In a recent development, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) proposed draft directions for the regulation of payment aggregators (PAs), specifically those handling physical point-of-sale (PoS) services. A PA is a third-party service provider that lets consumers pay retailers. Some significant PAs in India...

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