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Raj Kumar Makkad (Adv P & H High Court Chandigarh)     06 January 2012

Sebi launches india’s first kyc registration agency

Capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India, SEBI, has launched India’s first Know Your Customer Registration Agency – KRA. SEBI’s Chairman, Mr. U.K. Sinha launched the service at Bombay Stock Exchange on Wednesday.
Talking about the KRA service, Mr. Sinha said that he hopes that the system will be beneficial to both customers and market intermediaries alike.

He added that SEBI would like to encourage other regulators to adopt this model.

Mr. Sinha also congratulated the Central Depository Services Limited (CDSL) for setting up the KRA platform in record time.

He acknowledged this service as SEBI’s major milestone in providing customer service.

Informing about the advantages of KRA system, Executive Director of CDSL, PS Reddy said that this system avoids duplication of customer details and is interoperable, which means that other market participants can share the data and bring in more uniformity.

Mr. Sinha added that Sebi will soon launch a mass media campaign to educate retail investors about the simplified KYC norms.



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Kumar Doab (FIN)     06 January 2012

This was much awaited. This shall positively help  customers.

Banks have applied KYC but limited to branch while it should be Pan India as data can be exported to central server and once a customer has fulfilled. KYC norms customer is not required to provide KYC docs to the all branches of the bank provided there is no change in customer's address. Banks/ establishments under KYC can demand current photo each year.


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