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Now, completing know-your-customer (KYC) requirement with one financial institution will be good enough for opening an account with any bank, mutual fund, insurance company, broker, or New Pension Scheme.   The financial sector regulators – Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) and Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) – have introduced a common KYC form and have asked companies in their domain to upload this data with a central agency - Central Registry of Securitisation Asset Reconstruction and Security Interest of India, or CERSAI. Once you complete the KYC for opening a new account, you will receive a 14-digit identifier. Thereafter, when you go to any other financial entity for investments, new account, or policy purchase, you can simply quote the KYC identifier rather than doing the KYC process all over again. The institution will use the identifier to get KYC records from the central registry. While RB...

Many banks, brokerages, insurers and mutual funds have stopped opening or processing new accounts because they cannot upload know-your-customer details to a central database. The new registry will help individuals access a wide variety of financial services with a single 14-digit identifier. Regulators have instructed all financial institutions to use the Central Know-Your-Customer Registry (CKYCR), managed by Central Registry of Securitisation Asset Reconstruction and Security Interest of India (Cersai) for new customers. Banks and insurance companies were asked to upload new client details to the platform from July 15 and brokerages and fund houses from August 1. Cersai has appointed DotEx International, a group company of the National Stock Exchange, to manage the project. But teething problems have partially stalled its implementation. "We are taking documents from customers but the account opening process will take time because of technical issues with the new syste...

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