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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
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Topic: KYC

India’s KYC process is a privacy nightmare. FATF has given legal sanctity to mass surveillance

The extent of data collected at onboarding and once again at the time of updates to KYC goes beyond just verification and could potentially be used for “profiling” the customer.

Make it easier for nominees & heirs to access money left to them, RBI-appointed panel suggests

Panel set up in May 2022 has recommended ways in which RBI's regulated entities can improve customer service, including easing KYC norms & removing limits on UPI transactions.

Online Gaming KYC will not be Stricter than RBI Master Directions

The draft amendments envision an obligation for online gaming intermediaries to verify identity of all customers when they register new account for playing games.

How Sitharaman can live up to her Budget promise of KYC simplification

Our response to KYC problems has been to bring technology to streamline processes. The problem is that they often don’t work as well as one would have hoped.

KYC process to be simplified, announces Finance Minister in Union Budget 2023

According to Nirmala Sitharaman, the procedure will adopt a ‘risk-based’ approach rather than the ‘one size fits all’ currently in practice.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

As IDF unveils robotic combat task force, Israeli maker says open to working with India

Using this technology, IDF carried out fully robotic combat missions, drastically reducing risk to Israeli troops. The robotic combat task force also enhanced situational awareness.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.