India's RBI authorises CRED to operate as payment aggregator
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India's RBI granted final authorisation to CRED (Dreamplug Paytech Solutions Private Limited) to function as a regulated payment aggregator, enabling the firm to onboard merchants, accept payments across multiple instruments, and manage settlements and refunds.
Why it matters
The authorisation imposes the compliance and operational regime that applies to licensed payment-system operators, creating binding requirements for reporting, transaction controls, and settlement processes. That raises governance, risk-management, and operational workloads for teams that handle merchant onboarding, payments processing, and customer refunds.
Implications
- • CRED's compliance and payments operations teams must implement and document reporting, settlement, and refund controls required for licensed payment-system operators to meet regulator inspections.
- • Merchants' finance and e-commerce integration teams should update reconciliation and settlement workflows to align with CRED's aggregator settlement and refund processes.
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