The Certification Sign-off will be valid for 50 working days from the date of issue. The Bank needs to go Live within this time, else the Signoff will be invalid and the bank will have to re-certify.
The pre-requisites/ documents are as below: • Bank should be already live on EMV - Host to Host for ATM and POS channel. • PIF form • Certificate of Compliance (COC)
The bank that is going to issue their cards they need to go for Issuer Certification and if bank needs to accept cards, they need to go for Acquirer Certification.
In-case you are issuing the Cards for the first time, or in case of - Card profile change or Card embossing vendor change - you will need to complete White Plastic Certification.