Cyber Secure: SBI extends OTP-based ATM withdrawal facility round the clock

NATIONAL | SEPT 16, 2020: 

The State Bank of India will make an OTP-based cash withdrawal facility operational round the clock at its ATMs for transactions of Rs 10,000 and above from September 18.

In January this year, the lender had introduced OTP-based cash withdrawals for above Rs 10,000 between 8 pm to 8 am through all its ATMs.

For withdrawals of Rs 10,000 and above, the bank's debit cardholders will now have to enter OTP (one-time password) sent on their registered mobile numbers along with their debit card PIN each time, a release said.

"With the enablement of 24×7 OTP authenticated ATM withdrawals, we believe SBI customers will have a secured and risk-free cash withdrawal experience," the bank's Managing Director (retail and digital banking) C S Setty said.

Implementing this facility throughout the day would prevent SBI debit cardholders from the risk of falling prey to fraudsters, unauthorised withdrawals, card skimming, card cloning and the likes, the release said.

The lender has urged all its customers to register or update their mobile numbers.

The OTP-based cash withdrawal facility is available only at SBI ATMs as this functionality has not been developed at non-SBI ATMs in National Financial Switch (NFS), the bank said.

OTP is a system-generated numeric string of characters that authenticates the user for a single transaction.

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