RBI lifts restrictions on AmEx onboarding new customers in India

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“In view of the satisfactory compliance demonstrated by American Express Banking Corp with the Reserve Bank of India circular on Storage of Payment System Data, the restrictions imposed on onboarding of new domestic customers have been lifted with immediate effect,” the RBI said in a statement.

The RBI imposed the curbs on AmEx in April 2021 saying the company had not met data storage rules requiring foreign card networks to store domestic payments data only in India so the regulator can have “unfettered supervisory access”.

The move comes months after the RBI lifted restrictions on Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) over issuing debit and credit cards to new domestic customers due to similar compliance issues on data storage.