Your fintech does not just process transactions. It verifies, profiles and shares financial data every day.
From KYC and PAN/Aadhaar to bank statements, UPI data, credit bureau checks, scoring models, DSAs, collection agents, payment partners, call centres and old customer records — fintech and NBFC businesses handle high-impact financial data at every step. This 3-minute scan shows where DPDPA exposure may arise in your financial-data workflows. It collects no customer financial data — only your answers about your processes.
Most fintechs don't have a data-collection problem — they have a financial-data control problem.
Your financial-data risk map
The free scan scores your firm across these five areas. Here is what each one looks at.
KYC & financial data risk
PAN, Aadhaar/KYC, bank account and statements, UPI/VPA, income proof, credit-bureau reports, loan/EMI and repayment data, device/behavioural data and collection notes.
First move: Map KYC and financial data across onboarding, bureau checks and collections, and keep documents off WhatsApp and personal devices.
Profiling & underwriting risk
Credit scoring, eligibility checks, fraud/risk models, offer personalisation and automated approval/rejection — often with informal documentation.
First move: Document model purpose, data inputs, decision points and customer notice; keep human review where decisions materially affect customers.
Consent, notice & rights risk
Notice and consent for collection, verification, bureau checks, profiling, partner sharing and cross-sell — sometimes bundled into terms without traceable evidence.
First move: Capture timestamped, traceable consent and operationalise withdrawal, correction and deletion across systems and partners.
Vendor, partner & agent-sharing risk
Lenders, banks, bureaus, KYC providers, account aggregators, payment partners, DSAs, collection agents, call centres, cloud/CRM and risk vendors.
First move: Keep a partner/agent register; give role-based, monitored access; prohibit list exports and personal-phone follow-up.
Access, retention & incident readiness risk
Financial data across core systems, CRM, data warehouse, Excel, WhatsApp, vendor dashboards and agent devices; rejected applications and KYC kept for years; no incident plan.
First move: Consolidate access, set retention + deletion rules for KYC/bureau/bank data, and write a breach-response plan.
How the 3-minute scan works
Answer 10 quick questions
About your service type, financial data, KYC intake, profiling, consent, partner/agent sharing, access and retention. ~3 minutes.
See your readiness score + risk map
A 0–100 DPDPA readiness score, your risk band, and five fintech-specific risk areas.
Get your priority fixes + checklist
The five controls to start with, plus the Fintech / NBFC DPDPA Starter Checklist.
What the scan checks
Ten plain-English questions across your real financial-data workflows. The scan collects no customer financial data.
Fintech & NBFC DPDPA questions
Does the DPDPA apply to fintechs, NBFCs and payment businesses?
Yes. Fintechs, NBFCs, digital lending apps, payment and UPI businesses collect and process large volumes of personal and financial data — KYC, PAN/Aadhaar, bank statements, bureau reports, UPI and repayment data — which makes them Data Fiduciaries under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. DPDPA obligations sit alongside (not instead of) your RBI obligations, and increase as you profile customers and share data across lenders, bureaus, DSAs and collection agents.
Can KYC, income or bank documents come in over WhatsApp or via DSAs?
It is common, but bank statements and KYC arriving over WhatsApp or collected by DSAs/field agents are hard to control, verify, delete and audit. Prefer your secure app/website or a regulated eKYC/CKYC flow, keep documents in your core platform rather than personal devices, and apply the same controls to agent-collected documents as to direct onboarding.
Do we need consent evidence for bureau checks, profiling and partner sharing?
Yes. Verification, credit-bureau checks, scoring/profiling and sharing with partners are all processing that needs clear notice and traceable, timestamped consent — not consent bundled into terms and conditions. Where automated or semi-automated decisions materially affect customers, the purpose, data inputs and customer notice for those decisions should be documented.
What should we control when sharing data with DSAs, collection agents and bureaus?
Customer financial data shared with lenders, bureaus, KYC providers, account aggregators, DSAs, collection agents and risk vendors is a disclosure to third parties. Keep a partner/agent register, give role-based and monitored access, prohibit list exports and personal-phone/WhatsApp follow-up, and review access periodically.
How long can we keep rejected applications, KYC and bank statements?
The DPDPA expects data to be kept only as long as the purpose requires. Fintechs often retain rejected leads, KYC and bank statements for future offers or risk modelling — that must be purpose-bound, not indefinite. Define a retention schedule for KYC, bureau, bank and repayment data, archive or delete past it, and operationalise correction and deletion requests across your partners.
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10 questions · 3 minutes · free · no login. Get your firm's DPDPA readiness score.
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