Reserve
Bank of India
Date: Sep 04, 2014
Simplification of KYC Norms
- Creating Public Awareness
RBI/2014-15/209
DBOD. AML. No.
3356/14.01.001/2014-15
September 4, 2014
The Chairperson / Chief
Executive Officers
All Scheduled Commercial
Banks (Excluding RRBs)/ Local Area Banks /
All India Financial
Institutions
Dear Madam/Sir,
Simplification of KYC Norms
- Creating Public Awareness
The Reserve Bank of India,
in the recent times, has been taking several measures to simplify KYC
requirements to help the common man open bank accounts. It is, however,
observed that despite such measures the general public is still facing problems
in opening a bank account as these measures have not been given adequate
publicity and the common man still lacks awareness on the basics of opening a
bank account.
2. In order to address
these issues, create public awareness and give wide publicity to these KYC
simplification measures, Reserve Bank has issued a Press Release together with
a poster and a booklet comprising a few common questions relating to Know Your
Customer (KYC) norms for opening bank accounts. These are available on our
website at http://rbi.org.in/scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?prid=31935.
3. In this regard, banks
are also advised to initiate steps to create awareness and give wider publicity
by circulating the poster and booklet amongst all their branches. Branches may
be advised to make available the booklet to the customers/ general public and
display the poster prominently in their premises. Progress made in this regard
would be reviewed by Reserve Bank in due course.
4. Banks may ensure strict
compliance of these instructions.
Yours faithfully,
(Lily Vadera)
Chief General Manager
Source: RBI
