‘Airtel Safe Pay’ protects customers from payments frauds by ensuring money never leaves their accounts without consent
Ahmedabad, January 20, 2021: To protectAirtel customers from the growing incidents of online payment frauds, Airtel Payments Bank today launched‘Airtel Safe Pay’ – India’ssafest mode for making digital payments.
With ‘Airtel Safe Pay’, Airtel customers making UPI or Netbanking based payments through Airtel Payments Bank, no longer have to worry about money leaving their accounts without their explicit consent.
An India-First innovation, ‘Airtel Safe Pay’ leverages Airtel’s ‘telco exclusive’ strength of network intelligence to provide an additional layer of payment validation compared to the industry norm of two-factor authentication.Thisoffersthe highest level of protection from potential fraudssuch as phishing, stolen credentials or passwords, and even phone cloning that catches customers unaware.For details https://www.airtel.in/bank/safe-pay
Anubrata Biswas, MD & CEO, Airtel Payments Bank says, “As digital payments become the norm, especially in the post-pandemic world, we also have to solve for the challenge of frauds that are growing rapidly.We are happy to leverage Airtel’s core telco strengths to bring to market this unique capability that ensures that our customers have full control over their transactions. This sets a new benchmark in the Indian digital payments space by making security paramount.”
Using ‘Airtel Safe Pay’, Airtel Payments Bank customers can make secure digital paymentsacross millions of merchants, online retailers and utilities, and even send money. Customers can open an Airtel Payments Bank account within few minutes with just a video call from theAirtel Thanks app and enjoy a range of benefits while they make fully secure digital payments.
Says Adarsh Nair, Chief Product Officer, Bharti Airtel: “Airtel Safe Pay is yet another innovation where our secure network and world-class digital platforms combine to solve a unique market problem.At Airtel, weare taking the leadin offering the most securedigital payments platforms to our users and making sure that the customer is always in control withouta worry about rogue transactions.”
Airtel Safe Pay’ is completely free of charge and can be activated through Airtel Thanks app home screen or from the banking section in few easy steps. Watch how ‘Airtel Safe Pay’ works – https://youtu.be/UhpfjBjFcvk.
Airtel Payments also rolled out a new campaign for ‘Airtel Safe Pay’. Watch the TVC here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nf4zG4wQ6Q&feature=youtu.be
