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WhatsApp, the huge instant messaging App stated on 9th Oct that it had built a local system to store data which is related to payments of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s local data.

In response to India’s payments circular, we have built a system that stores payment related data locally in India. In India almost 1 million people are testing WhatsApp payments to send money to each other in a simple and secure way. We hope to expand the feature to all India soon so we can contribute to country financial inclusion goal. – WhatsApp spokesperson

RBI’s data localization norms will come into action from 15th October.

Unfettered supervisory access to data stored with these system providers as also with their service providers/intermediates/third party vendors and other entities in the payment ecosystem. The Central Bank

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RBI stated, “All system providers shall ensure that the entire data relating to payment systems operated by them are stored in a system only in India”, and added, “data should include the full end-to-end transaction details, as part of the message/payment instruction.”

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