International payments services providers have written to Reserve Bank of India (RBI), asking the central bank to reconsider its recent guidelines on data storage.

In April this year, RBI asked all payment system operators to store their data within the country and gave the companies six months time to comply with the norms.

However, affected companies have written to the central bank and formed a lobby group to take up the issue with the RBI, the report said.

One of the letters, viewed by Business Standard, said that data is often stored on cloud networks and that some foreign firms were bound by laws of their home countries.

Foreign companies such Visa, MasterCard and American Express, will be most affected by the move as they store transactions data outside of India.RBI has allowed data of international transactions to be stored outside the country if need be.