The full form of KYC is Know Your Customer or Know Your Client. Through the KYC process, a company verifies the customer’s identity, suitability and risk involved with maintaining a business relationship. The KYC process is also undertaken by companies to make sure their proposed customers, clients, agents, consultants, or partners are actually who they claim to be.
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Objective of KYC
The objective of KYC is to prevent a business from being used by frauds, scammers and other criminal elements for money laundering and many other illegal activities. KYC also helps companies to better understand their clients and financial dealings. Which enables businesses to manage their risk efficiently. Banks and other online businesses frame their KYC policies incorporating the following key elements.
- Customer identification process
- Customer identification policy
- Transactions tracking
- Risk management
To complete the KYC process, customers/ clients/ distributors/ agents/ consultants must provide banks and other companies with authentic information, so that banks can recognize and improve customer satisfaction. Here are some of the basic documents required as identification and address proof for KYC process:
- Aadhaar card
- Voter’s ID card
- Passport
- PAN card
- Driving license
If the documents provided by you don’t have address proof, you can share other documents like electricity bill, telephone bill, gas bill or water bill for KYC verification.
Who needs KYC
KYC is required by financial institutions and other related businesses. Financial institutions and non-financial institutions must abide by the KYC regulations else they may be penalized by authorities. Here are some business entities that need to incorporate KYC:
- Banks, NBFC and other financial institutions
- Insurance companies
- E-commerce
- Virtual currency businesses
- Real estate businesses
- Casino and online gaming
- Dealers of precious metals
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