Webinar on Adoption of Fair Use Guidelines

The Fair Use Guidelines will be adopted across the AA ecosystem on 1st June 2025. In preparation for this change, Sahamati organized a Webinar on 16st May 2025 (Friday) for financial information users (FIUs) and technology service providers (TSPs) servicing them.

Geethashree Srikanta, Lead operations, Sahamati, explained the need for the Fair Use Guidelines, the process of implementation by different participant types, how these will impact FIUs from 1st June, and how they need to prepare for them. 

The session began with outlining the implementation of fair use policies for responsible financial data access. She emphasized how Financial Information Users (FIUs) and Account Aggregators (AAs) have standardized the upper bounds of collection and storage limitations based on different purposes prevalent in the industry. She highlighted that while the 13 Fair Use templates published by Sahamati offer structure, each FI must align its usage with internal legal and regulatory frameworks. 

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The webinar also featured Vishwa Shah, Product Manager at Finvu AA, who demonstrated how their ConsentGuard product operationalizes the Fair Use Guidelines by validating consent and data requests against the templates, detecting deviations, and reporting non-compliance. She also underscored the flexibility of fair use guidelines that accommodate new use cases while ensuring accountability across the ecosystem. 

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Important Resources

AA Fair Use Template Library
Fair Use Implementation Guidelines for AA Ecosystem on GitHub