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RBI’s recent announcement allowed entities registered with it to use Video-based customer KYC (V-CIP)solution. That meant instead of sending agents to the customer’s address, now REs could verify the customer’s identity remotely via a recorded video call. RBI defined how V-CIP (video-based customer identification process) should be done, we have summarized the circular in our article here.

About 3 people in 100 have credit cards in India, while there are 930 million debit cards and 1.57 billion bank accounts that are about 80 percent of the total population, that’s the data from January 2019.

With the recent amendment in the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA), the Ministry of Finance now allows different ways to capture client’s details electronically; Digital KYC. We have tried to explain the amendment in our post here.

Supreme court’s judgement on Aadhaar and its use by private organizations all but pushed the BFSI sector back to its legacy processes of manual verification. Some sectors saw as much as 40% downturn in the new customer acquisition when compared to the eKYC era.

RBI recently released a new circular with respect to the use of Offline Aadhaar and Video-based KYC to verify the identity of the customer. AS per the new amendment regulated entities are now allowed to used Video-based KYC or Offline Aadhaar along with a recorded proof and location of the customer to complete KYC.

2018, saw $1.5 billion lost due to fraudulent incidents in the world. With over 500,000 identity theft-related frauds being reported, combined with a bulk of unreported incidents ID theft is one of the top 3 types of fraud affecting the banking and financial sector in the world.