The RBI has recently decided to grant in-principle approval to 11 applicants for setting up ‘Payment Banks.’ This move is to enhance financial inclusion by providing access to small saving accounts and payments, migrant labour work force, small businesses in unorganized sectors, etc. The payment banks are expected to use high technology platform to provide services at low cost, thereby redefining the retail banking landscape.
We are pleased to attach our White Paper: ‘Payment Banks – Changing Landscape of Retail Banking’ and trust you will find the same useful.
The Reserve Bank of India has proposed major reforms in banking sector with issue of guidelines for setting up “Small and Payment Banks” which will cater to marginalized sections of the Society, including migrant laborers, for collecting deposits and remitting funds.
These banks will provide a whole suite of basic banking products such as deposits and supply of credit, but in a limited area of operation. The payments banks will offer a limited range of products such as acceptance of demand deposits and remittances of funds. They will have a widespread network of access points particularly in remote areas, either through their own branch network or through Business Correspondents (BCs)/agents or through networks provided by others.
This ppt you could find RBI's move for setting-up payment banks-India Post which received a license will be a big competitor for other banks,SBI-RIL tie-up for payment bank,RBI's next move on small-finance banks,,creation of around 25,000jobs in Indian economy due to new banks
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The Reserve Bank of India has proposed major reforms in banking sector with issue of guidelines for setting up “Small and Payment Banks” which will cater to marginalized sections of the Society, including migrant laborers, for collecting deposits and remitting funds.
These banks will provide a whole suite of basic banking products such as deposits and supply of credit, but in a limited area of operation. The payments banks will offer a limited range of products such as acceptance of demand deposits and remittances of funds. They will have a widespread network of access points particularly in remote areas, either through their own branch network or through Business Correspondents (BCs)/agents or through networks provided by others.
This ppt you could find RBI's move for setting-up payment banks-India Post which received a license will be a big competitor for other banks,SBI-RIL tie-up for payment bank,RBI's next move on small-finance banks,,creation of around 25,000jobs in Indian economy due to new banks
Role of New Payment banks and Small banks - Part - 6Resurgent India
RBI as a part of its push for financial inclusion, recently granted ‘in-principle’ licenses for 11 payment banks and 10 small finance banks. Apart from this, the two new universal banks- Bandhan Bank Ltd and IDFC Bank Ltd which were awarded banking licenses by the RBI recently have already begun commercial operations.
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Payments banks is a new model of banks conceptualized by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) . These banks cannot issue loans and credit cards. Both current account and savings accounts can be operated by such banks.
Payments banks can issue services like ATM cards, debit cards, net-banking and mobile-banking.
These banks will aim at providing high volume-low value transactions in deposits and Payments / remittance services in a secured technology-enabled environment.
For quick service click: https://enterslice.com/payments-banks-license
GET FREE CONSULTANCY
Helpline: +91 9069142028
Email: info@enterslice.com
Website: www.enterslice.com
It's a current buzz in the banking sectors that the company like Reliance, Airtel , Aditya Birla & many more are going to make their banks soon........
The Indian post payment was setuped in 30 Jan 2016
Headquarter is situated in new Delhi
There was a plan to setup around 650 post payments bank branches
Prepaid Wallet License in India. Semi Closed Wallet, Closed Wallet Like Paytm etc. With Case studies.
For quick service click: https://enterslice.com/prepaid-wallet-license
GET FREE CONSULTANCY
Helpline: +91 9069142028
Email: info@enterslice.com
Website: www.enterslice.com
AI, Open Stack & blockchain will make banking* a poster child of resurgent India.
Banks, Regulator and Government need to seize the moment.
- A document by BCG
MTBiz is for you if you are looking for contemporary information on business, economy and especially on banking industry of Bangladesh. You would also find periodical information on Global Economy and Commodity Markets.
Signature content of MTBiz is its Article of the Month (AoM), as depicted on Cover Page of each issue, with featured focus on different issues that fall into the wide definition of Market, Business, Organization and Leadership. The AoM also covers areas on Innovation, Central Banking, Monetary Policy, National Budget, Economic Depression or Growth and Capital Market. Scale of coverage of the AoM both, global and local subject to each issue.
MTBiz is a monthly Market Review produced and distributed by Group R&D, MTB since 2009.
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White paper payment banks - changing landscape of retail banking
1. Page 1 of 19
INDEX
Sr. No. Contents Page No.s
1.0 BACKGROUND 2
2.0 PERMITTED SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES 3
3.0 BUSINESS MODEL 4
4.0 ENABLERS & CONSTRAINTS 5
5.0 IMPACT ON RETAIL BANKING AND CUSTOMERS 5
6.0 ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 8
7.0 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE 10
8.0 REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT 10
9.0 WAY FORWARD 18
WHITE PAPER
Payment Banks - Changing Landscape of Retail Banking
2. Page 2 of 19
1.0 Background and Scope:
The Reserve Bank of India has on 19 August 2015 decided to grant ‘in-principle’ approval to 11
applicants. The Payment Banks are intended to be an ubiquitous payment network and universal
access to savings with differential licensing to offer financial services to the hitherto excluded
segments of the population.
The objective of setting up of payments banks will be to further financial inclusion by providing
small savings accounts and payments/ remittance services to migrant labor workforce, low
income households, small businesses, other unorganized sector entities and other users. This
will be possible through heavy technological focus, as cost to serve unbanked population will be
lower due to technology adoption right from inception.
In this White Paper, we have endeavored to discuss the following aspects:
What is the Business Model of the Payment Banks and what are the Permissible
Activities vis-a vis a bank?
How will the Payment Banks impact the landscape of the Retail Banking in India? How
will it impact the customers?
What is the Regulatory Framework of the Payment Banks?
What is the Technology Architecture of the Payment Banks?
5. Page 5 of 19
4.0 Enablers and Constraints
Enablers Constraints
Sharing of infrastructure with promoter is
Permitted
Heavy focus on technology
Cost efficient technology platform to reduce
overall cost of transaction for servicing
unbanked population
Existing customer base to start
Existing Infrastructure of promoters, PPI,
telecom co.'s can be leveraged by Payment
Banks
No threshold for amount to be transacted,
enabling transactions above Rs. 1 Lakh by
business units provided the account balance
at the end of the day should not breach the
regulatory limit of Rs. 1 Lakh.
Interest can be paid to deposit holders
Funds can be invested for generating returns
Deposits mobilized by the Payments Bank
would be covered under DICGC
Can function as BC of other banks for credit
and other services which it cannot offer
Basic banking activities like FD / RD account
opening & Lending services not permitted
Despite of mandatorily being technology
driven, RBI does not envisage payments
banks to be “virtual” banks or branchless
banks. (25% physical access points, Own
control Offices)
The payments bank will have to undertake its
own KYC/ AML/ CFT exercise as any other
bank. (documentation obtained by Telecom /
earlier companies for KYC are not
acceptable)
5.0 Impact on Retail Banking and Customers
The preliminary assessment of likely impact on various stakeholders of the economy is given
below:
Stakeholders Likely Impact
Customers
High deposit rates to lure customers.
Low cost with innovative & convenient services. As Payment banks will
be heavily using technology the cost will be lower, also since their core
business will not be lending but other service products, they will bring in
innovation to services to be more competitive.
Localized touch points, expect to see local kirana and prepaid mobile
recharge outlets to become payments banks touch points
Structured Products like seamless transfers & customized remittance.
Payment banks might use of data analytics to enhance product offerings
6. Page 6 of 19
and for target-based advertising and marketing.
Expect freebies to woo customers due to competition. We have seen
offers and discounts in the universal banking space and in other sectors
such as e-commerce and taxi-hailing services. The same can be
expected here as well. Even if some do not offer discounts, at least
expect cheaper or even free services.
Universal Banks
The payments banks could wean away low-cost savings bank deposits
from the established full-service players, denting their ability to price
loans at a competitive level.
The threat of impending competition has awakened incumbent banks to
look at liabilities and payments as a separate business and not just as a
source of liquidity and facilitating transactions.
The impact on private sector banks will be minimal because they have
already made strong investments in technology. However the Banks with
low technological adoptions will tend to lose more.
Private sector banks like Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd, Yes Bank Ltd and
ICICI Bank Ltd and the largest public sector Bank State Bank of India
have tied up with some of the companies that have got approval for
setting up payment banks and hence may not be affected much.
That means, in the longer term, some of the smaller public sector banks
may remain under pressure, particularly those that are strapped for cash.
Loss of cost of infrastructure spend on rural branches (RBI mandated all
universal banks to have 25% branches in rural areas).
Payment Banks could act like feeder banks and make the larger banks
more competitive.
Payment Banks can increase the reach of the universal banks for large
pool of unbanked population for FD, RD & Lending services.
According to an SBI Research report, on the asset side, an incremental
amount of at least Rs.14 Lac Crores per annum is expected to be freed
up for credit needs of the infrastructure sector.
Reaching out to untapped segments in rural areas and small towns, by
using new business models is now considered the next big opportunity
for the financial sector and is actively engaging in it.
The above may result into reduction in staff strength by universal banks
by technology adoption as there is tremendous pressure to manage cost.
So also there will be a need for recalibrating the staff strength (training
7. Page 7 of 19
for handling lending activities & complex products is the need of hour).
The universal banks need to significantly change in marketing &
positioning which make will enable better utilization of its staff by
focusing on core activities like lending.
Insurers
Payment Banks can increase the reach of Insurers to large pool of uncovered
population. Considering the current insurance penetration rate of 3.9% in India
this is big opportunity for Insurers to tap new markets.
Mutual Funds
and other
financial
products
Similarly the Asset Management Companies might get some share by accessing
new untapped markets.
8. Page 8 of 19
6.0 Role of Information Technology
Payment banks are required to adapt technological solutions from the start of their business
operations to lower costs and extend their network.
6.1 IT Architecture for Business Flow
Users
CBS (CASA)
CustomerCASA Hosted Infra Investment
Customers
Business
Correspondents’
Fund Transfer
Big Data& Data
Analytics
InternetBrowser Utility Payment CRM
Mobile Apps MF Sourcing DMS
Branches
Insurance Products
Sourcing
Business
Correspondents
ATM PPI - mWallets
NEFT, RTGS, NECS,
etc.
POS
Investments of
funds
UIDAI
Vendors
Registered agents BCs to Other PaymentGateways
Promotional
schemes
KRA /RTA - CAMs,
Karvy, etc.
Insurers
Connectivity
to
External
Parties &
Applications
Banking ProcessDelivery Channels ITInfrastructure
Applications
9. Page 9 of 19
6.2 IT Business Model
These players would have to explore business models which are:
Cost efficient technology platform to reduce overall cost of transaction and
Sharing of resources with vendors / other players
Act as BCs and share their infrastructure.
Tie-ups for cross-sell of products and promotional schemes
6.3 Business Solutions / Technologies that may be deployed
Hosted Banking solutions
eKYC technologies using connectivity to UIDAI
Mobile banking and Internet Banking solutions
A mix of Customer Access points such as
Own branch network
Business Correspondents
ATMs & POS
Merchants’ locations such as Kirana shops, mobile recharge vendors, etc.
Use of shared infrastructures such as networks, card vendors, ISPs and Datacentres
Data analytics technologies for driving business strategy, operations & monitoring and
frauds management
Document Management Solutions
Connectivity to :
Remittance enabling networks such as NEFT, IMPS, RTGS, NECS
Payment gateways & utility bills payment vendors such as TPSL, Billdesk, etc.
KRAs, RTAs & Insurers for sale of MF & Insurance products.
Switches such as VISA, MASTER & RUPAY
6.4 Use of Third Party Vendors: Outsourcing of various non-core business activities would be
required. The following functions could be considered:
Managed services :
IT Infrastructure
ATMs (CRAs & CITs)
POS
Portal / app development and maintenance and content management
Multiple ISPs
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7.0 Organisational Structure
The broad organizational structure with access point mix is given below:
8.0 Regulatory Framework
Some of the conditions laid down in Draft guidelines & other press releases are summarized
below:
8.1 Promoters:
Eligible
Promoters
Entities / groups in the private sector, entities in public sector and Non-Banking
Financial Companies (NBFCs) shall be eligible to set up a bank through a wholly-
owned Non-Operative Financial Holding Company (NOFHC).
Corporate The NOFHC shall be wholly owned by the Promoter / Promoter Group. The NOFHC
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structure of the
NOFHC
shall hold the bank as well as all the other financial services entities of the group.
Corporate
governance of
NOFHC
At least 50% of the Directors of the NOFHC should be independent directors. The
corporate structure should not impede effective supervision of the bank and the
NOFHC on a consolidated basis by RBI.
Prudential norms
for the NOFHC
The prudential norms will be applied to NOFHC both on stand-alone as well as on a
consolidated basis and the norms would be on similar lines as that of the bank.
Exposure norms The NOFHC and the bank shall not have any exposure to the Promoter Group. The
bank shall not invest in the equity / debt capital instruments of any financial entities
held by the NOFHC.
Other Business of
Promoters
The other financial services of promoter (if any) should be ring fenced & interference
with Payment Bank.
Banks as
Promoters
Even banks can take equity stake in a Payments Bank to the extent permitted under
Section 19 (2) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.
Prior approval for
acquisition
As per Section 12B of the Act, any acquisition of 5 per cent or more of voting equity
shares in a private sector bank will require prior approval of RBI. This will also apply
to the Payments Banks.
8.2 Capital Requirements:
Minimum Capital Minimum paid up voting equity capital set at INR 100 Crores, & are required to
maintain a positive network of INR 100 Crores.
Leverage Ratio The payments bank should have a leverage ratio of not less than 3 per cent, i.e., its
outside liabilities should not exceed 33.33 times its net worth (paid-up capital and
reserves).
Capital Adequacy The Payments Bank shall be required to maintain a minimum capital adequacy ratio
of 15 per cent of its risk weighted assets (RWA) on a continuous basis, subject to any
higher percentage as may be prescribed by RBI from time to time, As Payments
Banks are not expected to deal with sophisticated products, the capital adequacy
ratio will be computed under simplified Basel I standards.
FDI Foreign shareholding is allowed as per FDI rules in Private Banks.
8.3 Promoter Equity
Minimum Equity Promoter stake should be minimum 40% & be held by Promoter for minimum lock in
period of 5 years.
Diversified Holding Since a Payments Bank cannot undertake lending activities, it is not mandatory for it
to have a diversified ownership structure. However, when the Payments Bank
reaches the net worth of Rs. 500 crore, and therefore becomes systemically
important, diversified ownership and listing will be mandatory within three years of
reaching that net worth; for others listing is voluntary subject to fulfillment of the
requirements of the capital market regulator.
Ceiling & Reduction Shareholding in excess of 40% should be brought down to 40% within period of 3
years, to 30% in 10 years and to 26% within 12 years.
Non Promoter
Holding
Entities other than the promoters will not be permitted to have shareholding in
excess of 10 per cent of the voting equity capital of the bank.
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8.4 Corporate Governance
Directors Majority of Bank Directors should be independent directors
Common Directors The Bank can have common Directors as that of Promoter Company. However
independent Directors of Promoter company will not be considered as Independent
for Payment Banks
Fit & Proper The payment banks should comply with the corporate governance guidelines
including ‘fit and proper’ criteria for Directors as issued by the RBI from time to time.
Voting Rights As per Section 12 (2) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, the voting rights in private
sector banks are capped at 10 per cent per shareholder.
8.5 Business Plan
Framework The applicants were required to furnish their business plans and project reports with
their applications. Therefore the banks already have a road map defined for steps to
be taken. The business plan contain Minimum of Following:
Way in which the bank proposes to achieve the objectives behind setting up
of Payments Bank.
Aspects relating to business model proposed to be used; bank’s access
points in rural and semi-urban areas; control over its BCs and customer
grievance redressal; JV partnership with a scheduled commercial bank, if
any; etc.
Deviation In case of deviation from the stated business plan (filed by applicants while applying
for license) after issue of license, RBI may consider restricting the bank’s expansion,
effecting change in management and imposing other penal measures as may be
necessary.
8.6 Other conditions
Channel/
Geographical
Coverage
The Payments Bank should ensure widespread network of access points particularly
to remote areas, either through their own branch network, ATMs or BCs or through
networks provided by others. The Payments Bank is expected to adapt technological
solutions to lower costs and extend its network.
Minimum No. of
Branches
No such minimum No. of Branches/ access points prescribed by RBI. The Banks
have to be guided by the five year business plan submitted to RBI.
Mandatory
Presence
25% of the Physical access points must be in the “Unbanked” areas (The Payments
Bank shall operate in remote areas mostly through BCs and other networks).
Therefore, the requirement of opening at least 25 per cent of branches in unbanked
rural centers (population up to 9,999 as per the latest census), is not stipulated for
them.
Technology The operations of the bank should be fully networked and technology driven from the
beginning, conforming to generally accepted standards and norms.
Grievance
Redressal
The bank should have a high powered Customer Grievances Cell to handle
customer complaints.
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8.7 Corporate & Banking Regulations
Some of the conditions laid down in Draft guidelines & other press releases are summarized
below:
a. Corporate Regulations
Companies Act The Payments Bank will be registered as a public limited company
under the Companies Act, 2013.
Public Issue SEBI (Issue of Capital & Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2009
and SEBI dilution norm for promoters.
Differential Voting
Rights
Cap of 10% voting rights of as per Banking Regulation Act, 1949 to be
aligned to differential voting rights as permitted under Companies Act
2013.
b. Banking Regulations:
License The Payment Banks will be licensed under Section 22 of the Banking
Regulation Act, 1949, with specific licensing conditions restricting its
activities to acceptance of demand deposits and provision of payments
and remittance services.
Prudential Norms As the Payments Bank will not have loans and advances in its portfolio, it
will not be exposed to credit risk and, the prudential norms and regulations
of RBI as applicable to loans and advances, will therefore, not apply to it.
However, the Payments Bank will be exposed to operational risk and
should establish a robust operational risk management system. Further, it
may face liquidity risk, and therefore is required to follow RBI’s guidelines
on liquidity risk management, to the extent applicable.
Banking Activities RBI is yet to come up with detailed regulations for governing Payment
Banks. However some of the existing acts which will affect the Payment
Banks are as follows:
Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934
Banking Regulation Act, 1949
Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999
Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007
Other relevant Statutes and Directives, Prudential Regulations and
other Guidelines/Instructions issued by RBI for universal Bank to the
extent it relates to activities of Payment Banks
The eligible deposits mobilized by the Payments Bank would be
covered under the deposit insurance scheme of the Deposit
Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation of India (DICGC).
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c. Permitted Investment Activities:
RBI is yet to come up with detailed regulations for governing Payment Banks; however
the broad scope of Investment activities as defined in draft regulations being indicative in
nature, are listed below:
8.8 Service Tax
Service Tax implications on major activities to be undertaken by Payment Banks as permitted by
Reserve Bank of India are listed below:
Deposits No Service Tax implications as the whole transactions of accepting
deposits are mere transaction in money
Issuance of ATM/
Debit Cards
Transaction / Issue Charges liable to Service Tax
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Remittance
Services
Acceptance of funds at one end and payments of funds at other end through
various channels.
Business
Correspondent
services (“BC”)
Issuance of Pre-
Paid Payment
Instrument (“PPI”)
Internet Banking/
Utility Bill Payment
Any charges recovered by Payment Banks for providing internet banking
services liable to Service Tax.
Cross Border
Impact on
CENVAT Credit
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Non-Risk Financial
services
Cenvat Credit Banking Cos. engaged in providing services by way of extending
deposits, loan or advances are eligible for only 50% of CENVAT
Credit.
Payment Banks cannot undertake lending activities. However,
Payment Banks will be required to invest minimum 75% of its
deposits in Government Securities and hold maximum 25% in
current and time/ fixed deposits with other banks.
Considering the above interpretation, payment Banks are eligible
only for 50% of CENVAT Credit on common Inputs and Input
services
Registration
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8.9 Other Regulations:
SEBI & IRDA As regards commission etc. banks are required to follow the guidelines issued
by respective sectoral regulators in the matter e.g. IRDA, SEBI, AMFI etc. for
sourcing of MF and Insurance products
Money laundering Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 for Customer Acceptance Policy &
Monitoring of suspicious transactions
Tax framework Income Tax 1961
Service Tax Rules 1994
Information
Technology
Information Technology Act 2002 :
Adopt reasonable Security Practices
Adhere to Customer Data Privacy & Secrecy norms
PCI DSS Standards
FATCA The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) was enacted by the
Government of the United States in March 2010, to combat offshore tax
evasion by US individuals and US owned entities. It imposes obligations on
foreign financial institutions to collect prescribed information relating to US
persons, and to withhold tax on any 'withholdable payment' received by any
US person who does not consent to their details being disclosed to the US
Internal Revenue Service (IRS). As a consequence to inter-Governmental
Agreement between India with the US, Indian banks, mutual funds, insurance
companies and other financial institutions will have to collect additional details
from US persons and/or withhold tax on qualifying payments.
Though the Payment Banks are not allowed to hold NRI deposits, however
exposure FDI & availing any other form of services from US individuals / US
owned entities will make them liable for FATCA compliance.
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9.0 Way Forward
Detailed regulations for governing Payment Banks to be issued by RBI.
Compliance to all conditions laid down in ‘in-principle” approval to be met within the deadline
of 18 months.
Strategize the stages to become fully operational.
Competition from here on is only going to get tougher, as RBI is going to announce small
finance banks soon and is currently evaluating around 70 applications.