KYC for Telecom exists because a SIM card is one of the most portable identity artefacts in India. It gets linked to bank accounts, UPI, tax filings, and every OTP-authenticated service a person uses. Weak telecom KYC cascades directly into financial fraud, SIM swap attacks, and identity takeover. Which is why the Department of Telecommunications […]

KYC for microfinance does not look like KYC for a retail bank. The borrower is typically a low-income household member with fewer formal documents. The onboarding often happens in a village through a field agent with a tablet, and the loan structure (joint liability groups and self-help groups) means multiple people get onboarded together. The […]

Learn about simplified due diligence, its significance, and when needed. Discover the key differences between SDD, CDD, and EDD, along with the steps involved in the SDD process.

KYC underwriting used to describe two separate product-evaluation exercises. An insurer would pick AI underwriting software on one cycle and KYC or IDV on another, often with different teams, different procurement calendars, and different success metrics. That separation is breaking down. Fraud vectors that start as identity problems (synthetic IDs, deepfake selfies) end as underwriting […]

Re KYC means the periodic updation of customer identification documents in the records.To know more in detail about Re KYC, importance & process, read here now!

Want to learn about the concepts of KYC & AML? These are crucial to curb money laundering & terror funding. Find out differences between AML & KYC in this article!

NRI KYC is not just resident KYC with a passport attached. It sits under a different regulatory stack (FEMA plus RBI plus PMLA plus, for investments, SEBI), uses a different documentation standard, and gets rejected for a distinct set of reasons that resident KYC almost never sees. Most of those rejections come down to one […]

Know all about KYC, CTRs, SARs, red flags, and India’s MeitY online gaming rules and FIU-IND obligations, explained in detail.

A KYC audit and re-KYC are not the same thing, and conflating them is one of the most common ways compliance programmes get caught out at an RBI inspection. Re-KYC refreshes a customer record. A KYC audit tests the programme that produces those records: the policy, the controls, the sampling, the exception handling, and the […]

Automated eKYC can reduce the risk of manual errors, and reduce costs associated with manual processes. To know more about it’s importance & benefits, click here!

Compliance for non-banking financial companies(NBFCs) looks different in 2026. The Reserve Bank of India replaced the Master Direction on KYC, 2016, with ten sector-specific Master Directions on November 28, 2025, and issued a dedicated NBFC KYC Direction among them. Before that, the 2nd Amendment in August 2025 tightened customer communication standards, and a mid-2025 circular […]

In the fight against the second wave, the RBI Governor proposed a holistic strategy to alleviate the constraints that financial institutions and their customers face, in his latest statement on the 5th of May, 2021.