The Central KYC Registry or Know your Customer Registry
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About CKYC
Central KYC Registry is a centralized repository of KYC records of customers in the financial sector with uniform KYC norms and inter-usability of the KYC records across the sector with an objective to reduce the burden of producing KYC documents and getting those verified every time when the customer creates a new relationship with a financial entity.
Central KYC Records Registry is a centralized repository of KYC records of customers in the financial sector. It enables uniform KYC norms and inter-usability of the KYC records across the financial sector.
The registry is maintained by CERSAI (Central Registry of Securitisation Asset Reconstruction and Security Interest of India), a Government of India undertaking and is authorized by the Government through a notification in the Official Gazette to receive, store, safeguard and retrieve the KYC records in digital form of a client as referred to in the Prevention of Money-laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.