NPCI confirms WhatsApp Pay’s data localisation

BENGALURU: A filing by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) with the Supreme Court shows that the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has told the banking regulator that Facebook-owned messaging application WhatsApp is now fully compliant with data-localisation norms.

In a letter dated June 5, NPCI, which manages the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), told the regulator that it “confirms” WhatsApp has now satisfied data-localisation norms for payments service. This is the first time the umbrella payments body has confirmed WhatsApp Pay’s compliance status formally. TOI has reviewed the filing.