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Clients of Special Category (CSC)

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Clients of Special Category (CSC) is a higher-risk client classification under India’s anti-money-laundering framework, defined in the SEBI Master Circular on AML/CFT obligations of securities market intermediaries dated 6 June 2024, that obliges a broker such as Zerodha to run enhanced due diligence on the client, the practical trigger being a mandatory income-proof and source-of-funds check at account opening or re-KYC . The classification flows from the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 and the Prevention of Money-Laundering (Maintenance of Records) Rules, 2005, which require every regulated intermediary to grade clients by money-laundering risk and apply heavier scrutiny to the riskier ones.

How to respond to an additional-documents email from Zerodha

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If Zerodha emails you asking for additional documents during onboarding or re-KYC , the safe response is to verify the email is genuine first, then upload the document only through your own Zerodha login at support.zerodha.com or signup.zerodha.com/rekyc, never through a link in the email, an SMS or a WhatsApp message. A genuine request always corresponds to a pending item visible inside your own logged-in account; if the demand exists only in the email, treat it as phishing.

How to upload multiple financial proof files on Zerodha Console

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Uploading multiple financial-proof files on Zerodha Console runs into one rule that catches most people: the Console financial-proof field takes a single file, not a stack. Income proof is needed only to switch on the Futures and Options segment, and a single accepted proof, a six-month bank statement most of all, can itself span several pages. Zerodha’s own guidance is to merge every page into one document before uploading: combine PDFs into one PDF, convert images to a single PDF, or zip mixed file types into one archive. This guide gives the accepted proofs and thresholds, the merge methods, the format and size limits, and the exact Console path.

Documents required to open a Zerodha account

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What you need to open a Zerodha account

A PAN and an Aadhaar linked to your registered mobile number are the only two documents most clients need to open a Zerodha account online, because the Aadhaar-based eKYC pulls your name, photograph, date of birth, and address straight from DigiLocker and a UPI handshake usually verifies your bank account without any uploaded proof. Everything else on the checklist is conditional. You supply a cancelled cheque only if the bank check fails, and you supply income proof only when you want to trade Futures and Options . This page sets out each document, what it is used for, the exact F&O income thresholds, the differences between the online and offline routes, and the SEBI and KYC basis behind every requirement.