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title: Introduction to CKYC
description: CKYC refers to Central KYC registry, an initiative by the Government of India through a body CERSAI under the prevention of money laundering act, Central KYC Registry is a centralized repository of KYC records of customers in the financial sector…
url: "https://trackwizz.com/developers-hub/docs/ckyc-search-download/know-ckyc-process/"
updated: "2022-01-12"
category: "CKYC Search & Download"
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# Introduction to CKYC

CKYC refers to Central KYC registry, an initiative by the Government of India through a body CERSAI under the prevention of money laundering act, 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.

Below Video of 2 minutes will help you get an overview of CKYC, also you may visit our [knowledge hub](https://trackwizz.com/knowledge-hub/) about Circulars issued by the regulators like RBI , SEBI related to CKYC

[https://videos.sproutvideo.com/embed/a79ddcb01c1ce3c32e/053de065fbd5c6ad?type=hd](https://videos.sproutvideo.com/embed/a79ddcb01c1ce3c32e/053de065fbd5c6ad?type=hd)