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India's Account Aggregator Marks Four Years With 2.2 Billion Accounts Enabled

The Finance Ministry released new adoption metrics, positioning the consent-based data layer as a catalyst for broader formal credit.

Overview

  • A total of 112.34 million users have linked their accounts to share data through the AA framework.
  • Institutions live on the network include 112 operating as both FIP and FIU, 56 as FIP only, and 410 as FIU.
  • Adoption spans banking, securities, insurance, and pensions as part of India’s digital public infrastructure.
  • Account Aggregators enable encrypted, permissioned sharing of bank, investment, and loan data for services such as loan applications and financial planning.
  • The framework, launched in 2021 following RBI’s 2016 directions, has been recognized in G20 documents and India’s 2024 DPI Task Force report.