After the RBI, it is now the turn of SEBI and IRDAI to launch their own Regulatory Sandbox Frameworks for Fintech and Insurance companies. SEBI, thankfully, also addresses access to data as an important factor in its ‘Innovation Sandbox’.
As Wriju Ray – co-founder and CBO at IDfy – had said to the Economic Times, “Data either comes from larger clients who have a lot of customers or from public data sources, and public data is not within its purview.“
RBI’s guidelines on the Regulatory Sandbox has left this issue unaddressed.
SEBI’s Innovation Sandbox, aimed at creating an eco-system of innovation in the securities market, said that “fintech companies should have access to market related data, particularly, trading and holding data, which is otherwise not readily available to them, to enable them to test their innovations effectively before the introduction of such innovations in a live environment”.
Our experience in India’s Fintech and ancillary industries has showed us that we are trying to create innovative, out-of-the-box technology solutions. If it is able to provide access to the right sets of data, SEBI’s Innovation Sandbox could help create some truly disruptive solutions for the securities market.
IDfy provides Digital KYC and risk-free onboarding solutions for Fintechs and Insurers. To know more, please write to shivani@idfy.com