Sahamati has formed several working groups constituting AA participants with two-fold intentions of self-regulation and collaboration. These working groups, comprised of representatives from AAs, FIPs, FIUs and TSPs, meet regularly to address commonly faced concerns and conflicts in adoption of AA. Working groups not only provides platform for sharing information and voicing out opinions from the perspective of each of these participants, but also fosters collaboration by converging on commonly accepted code of conduct for healthy evolution of the AA ecosystem.

1. Assisted, Aadhaar-enabled AA Working Group
RBIH led working group in association with Sahamati to build out a secure, simple Aadhaar based process for using Account Aggregator in an assisted mode. The objective is to ensure that Assisted AA framework can be effectively deployed to improve the access to financial services for half billion population that doesn’t have a smart phone or have relatively low levels of digital and/or financial literacy

Sl no.Members
1Mr. Sunil Kulkarni, CEO, BCFI (as the chair)
2Mr. Gaurav Gupta, CEO, Adani Capital
3Ms. Honey Madaan, SVP, Airtel Payments Bank
4Mr. Ankur Tripathi, CTO, AU Small Finance Bank
5Mr. Ragavan Venkatesan, CEO, DGV
6Mr. Munish Bhatia, CEO, Finvu Account Aggregator
7Mr. Manoj Kashyap, Head-Digital Banking, HDFC Bank
8Mr. J. Venkatramu, India Post Payments Bank
9Ms Natasha Jethanandani, CTO Kaleidofin
10Mr. Anand Bajaj, CEO, Paynearby
11Mr. Bertram D’Souza, CPIO, Protean
12Mr. Rakesh Ranjan, Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH)
13Ms. Praveena Rai, COO, National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI)
14Mr. Sanjeev Yadav, Director Authentication, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)

2. GSTN FIP Recommendations Working Group
Sahamati makes a representation to policy makers based on feedback received from lenders on the GSTN SRS that has been approved by DoR. The working group arrived at a list of additional requirements which were captured in a written proposal and shared with DFS for further deliberations.

Sl no.Members
1Mr. Ravi Modiani, 121 Finance
2Mr. Sameer Shetty, Axis Bank
3Mr. Kunal Pradeep Chitnis, Axis Bank
4Mr. Akhil Handa, Bank of Baroda
5Mr. Khadgi Mukund Sharadrao, Bank of Baroda
6Mr. Asheesh Pandey, Bank of Maharashtra
7Mr. Ravinder Khokhar, HDFC Bank
8Mr. Sanjay Seshamani, Kotak Bank
9Mr. Kinjal Shah, Lendingkart
10Mr. Sivasubramanian Ramann, SIDBI
11Mr. Ravi Tyagi, SIDBI
12Mr. Nitesh Ranjan, Union Bank
13Mr. Hrushikesh Mehta, Credall
14Mr. Niraj Hutheesing, Cygnet
15Mr. Jinand Shah, Online PSB Loans

3. AA Anti-Fraud Guidelines Working Group
Sahamati led working group to identify potential scenarios of frauds in the AA Ecosystem with suggested best practices and mitigation measures on technology, data governance, processes, policies.

Sl no.Members
1Mr. Dhananjay Tambe, former Deputy MD CIO, SBI (as the Chair)
2Mr. Kailash Nadh, CTO, Zerodha
3Mr. Sumit Gwalini, Co-founder, Fi
4Mr. Rahul Chari, Founder CTO, PhonePe
5Mr. Saurabh Panjwani, Technical Fellow at iSpirit
6Mr. Susanta Dash, Deputy CTO, SBI
7Mr. Sasikumar Ganesan, Head of Engineering, MOSIP (Volunteer)

4. Customer Experience Guidelines Working Group
This working group is led to define community guidelines applicable to FIUs and AAs for implementing consent journeys that are compliant to the spirit of AA regulations, and also frictionless for citizens.

Sl. No.Members
1Ms. Nagalakshmi K, Product Manager, Tally Account Aggregator Services Private Limited
2Mr. Prateek Patnaik, Product Lead (AA), Epifi Wealth Private Limited
3Mr. Raman Kapoor, Epifi Wealth Private Limited
4Mr. Saurabh Mulye, NeoGrowth Credit
5Mr. Munish Bhatia, Cookiejar Technologies Pvt Ltd (Finvu)
6Ms Kamalika Poddar, CAMSfinserv
7Mr. Vicky Upadhye, Assistant Manager, NSDL E-Governance Account Aggregator Limited

5. AA Client Data Security Working Group
Sahamati leads this working group to define technical guidelines aimed at protecting data privacy of citizens, using AA client interfaces (web, mobile)

1Members
2Mr. Anil Joseph, Finacus Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
3Mr. Saran Sankaran, Software Engineer, Epifi Wealth Private Limited
4Mr. Praveen Prabhu, Cookiejar Technologies Pvt Ltd (Finvu)
5Mr. Pradip Waghmare, CISO, Finarkein Analytics Private Limited
6Ms Kamalika Poddar, CAMSfinserv
7Mr. Kunal Kishan, Architect, Perfios Account Aggregation Services Pvt Ltd (Anumati)