Airtel adds safe pay for digital payments and video KYC

Airtel has launched a new feature called safe pay for digital payments for all account holders. The attempt to add another protection layer is to protect banking frauds and cyberattacks. At this time, Airtel payments bank account can hold a maximum balance of ₹1 lakh.

Airtel says that any bank account can be linked to Airtel payments bank account, thereby protecting your bank details from frauds during the transactions. Airtel has also launched video KYC for users who wish to either open a new Airtel payments bank account or upgrade from the Airtel wallet digital payment services.

For this, you will need to have your Aadhaar and Pan verification is mandatory with UIDAI and NSDL as per the video KYC guidelines. The Airtel safe pay and Airtel payments bank video KYC is available for Airtel Thanks app users on both Android and iPhone.

The new options should show up on your app in next few days. At this time, Airtel Safe Pay is available only to those who have full-fledged Payments Banka Account, and not a digital payment service.