Bharat Bill Payment: RBI reduces net-worth requirement for non-bank Bharat Bill Payment units to Rs 25 crore

The RBI on Thursday eased norms for non-bank entities to arrange Bharat Invoice Fee working models by decreasing the net-worth reqirement to Rs 25 crore, with a view to encourage extra gamers within the phase. At current, a web value of Rs 100 crore is required to acquire authorisation for a non-bank BBPOU (Bharat Invoice Fee Working Items).

Bharat Invoice Fee System (BBPS) is an interoperable platform for invoice funds and the scope and protection of BBPS extends to all classes of billers who increase recurring payments.

“…the minimal net-worth requirement for non-bank Bharat Invoice Fee Working Items (BBPOUs) stands decreased to Rs 25 crore,” the Reserve Financial institution of India mentioned in a round.

Customers of BBPS get pleasure from advantages like standardised invoice fee expertise, centralised buyer grievance redressal mechanism and prescribed buyer comfort charge.

The discount in net-worth necessities follows an announcement concerning the identical by the central financial institution in April.

The RBI had mentioned whereas BBPS has seen a rise within the quantity of transactions in addition to variety of onboarded billers, it’s noticed that there has not been a corresponding development within the variety of non-bank BBPOUs.

The requirement of Rs 100 crore web value for a non-bank BBPOU to acquire authorisation was seen as a constraint to larger participation, it had mentioned.

To extend participation, the RBI had determined to align the online value requirement of non-bank BBPOUs with that of different non-bank contributors which deal with buyer funds (like fee aggregators) and have an identical threat profile.