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FATF lists and your Zerodha account

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

The FATF lists are the two registers of high-risk countries maintained by the Financial Action Task Force, the inter-governmental body that sets the global standards for anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist-financing, and they decide whether a non-resident or foreign national can open or hold a Zerodha account: a resident of a country on the FATF black list cannot open an account, and a resident of a country on the FATF grey list can open one only after Zerodha’s compliance team approves it. India is a FATF member and gives the lists legal force through the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 , the PML Rules 2005, and the SEBI Master Circular on AML/CFT obligations dated 6 June 2024.

How to fix the IP address outside India error at Zerodha

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

Zerodha stops a resident account opening when its system reads your IP address as outside India, and the cause is one of three: a VPN or proxy masking your real location, a genuinely foreign or corporate-routed network, or genuine non-resident status that needs the NRI flow instead. The block is a regulatory control, not a bug. SEBI requires an intermediary to confirm the client is physically in India during onboarding, so Zerodha checks the IP before it lets the resident flow proceed.

How to get support for a Zerodha Orbis account

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

A Zerodha Orbis account is not a Zerodha product and not a route to US or foreign stocks; it is the custodial mapping to Orbis Financial Corporation Limited , a SEBI-registered custodian, that a non-resident Indian on the Non-PIS route must hold to trade futures and options through Zerodha . Indian rules require an NRI’s derivative trades to clear through a custodian, so Zerodha maps the client’s NRO account to Orbis and issues a Custodial Participant (CP) code. Support for that account, therefore, is not the same as support for your trading account, and it does not sit in the same place.

How to open a Zerodha NRI account

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This guide explains how a non-resident Indian (NRI) can open a Zerodha NRI demat and trading account, covering both the Portfolio Investment Scheme (PIS) route through an NRE account and the non-PIS route through an NRO account. After deciding between the PIS and non-PIS routes, you can start the Zerodha account-opening process using the NRI route.

Step-by-step procedure

Step 1: Choose PIS or non-PIS route

The first decision is which regulatory route to use for equity trading in India.