Wednesday, July 24, 2013

RBI relaxes KYC norms for updating bank data


Mumbai: Banks will now be required to update know your customers (KYC) data only once in two years for high risk entities, and just once in 10 years for low-risk clients, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Tuesday. "The issue has been reviewed in the light of practical difficulties/constraints expressed by bankers/customers in obtaining/submitting fresh KYC documents at frequent intervals as the relative documents submitted earlier specially by low-risk customers have remained unchanged in most of the accounts," the apex bank said in a notification.................

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