Kesari explains the role of an account aggregator (AA) as a consent manager and licensed financial data intermediary. The AA framework, part of India’s Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA), mediates user financial data transfer between financial institutions and service providers, ensuring user consent. This framework, unique globally, takes a techno-legal approach to data sharing, offering secure, consented, and legal data transfer.
The AA framework, established under the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s 2016 Non-Banking Financial Company – Account Aggregator Master Directions, is part of India’s broader push for digital public infrastructure, which includes the Unified Payments Interface and Open Network for Digital Commerce. It aims for an open, interoperable infrastructure with real market competition. This approach prevents dominance by a single entity, ensuring a level playing field and fostering innovation and user-friendly financial technology solutions.
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Probir specializes in Corporate Commercial, Venture/Private Equity and Information Technology/FinTech. He has been involved in corporate transactions focused on the high technology industry including cross border Mergers & Acquisitions.