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Life insurers and insurance repositories must upload policyholder data to the iTrex server for shell insurance accounts and KYC repository services. Insurers must complete the initial upload of existing policyholder data up to 31 December 2015 by 31 March 2016. Insurers must de-duplicate customer data before the upload. Insurers must use web services for incremental data from 1 January 2016 onwards. Production server uploads begin on 29 February 2016. Insurers must confirm the upload status weekly starting from 7 March 2016.
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भारतीय बीमा विनियामक और विकास प्राधिकरण INSURANCE REGULATORY AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF INDIA
Ref No: IRDA/INT/CIR/INSREP/32/02/2016
Date: 20th February, 2016
Circular
To All Life Insurers & IRs
Sub: Uploading the sIA data on iTrex (Insurance Transaction Exchange) Server
The Authority has released the "Revised Guidelines on Insurance Repositories and electronic issuance of Insurance policies" on 29th May, 2015 wherein, the creation of Shell Insurance Accounts and KYC Repository at the iTrex (Insurance Transaction Exchange) are envisaged. Accordingly, the iTrex has been upgraded to create Shell Insurance Accounts and also to provide KYC repository services.
(i) Complete initial upload of the existing policyholder data up to 31st December, 2015 by 31st March, 2016. The manner in which the initial upload will have to be completed is detailed in Annexure I. Before any such upload, insurers are strongly advised to have a de-duplication done at their level to ensure that a policyholder does not have multiple customer ID's.
(ii) For the incremental data (policyholder data from 1st January, 2016 and for all subsequent dates), the Insurers may use the web-services created by iTrex for this purpose. The data formats for web services shall be as per Annexure II to this circular. The help file can be downloaded from https://www.iTrex.in. A copy of the same is enclosed as Annexure-III.
പരിശ്രമം ഭവൻ, تیسرا তল, बशीरबाग, हैदराबाद-500 004. भारत
( : 91-040-2338 1100, फैक्स: 91-040-6682 3334
ई-मेल: irda@irda.gov.in वेब: www.irda.gov.in
Parisharam Bhavan, 3rd Floor, Basheer Bagh, Hyderabad-500 004. India.
Ph.: 91-040-2338 1100, Fax: 91-040-6682 3334
E-mail : irda@irda.gov.in Web.: www.irda.gov.in
It may be noted that the iTrex currently has a Test server which can be used by the Insurers to test the functionality anytime. The iTrex production server is fully functional and the Insurers may start uploading the data from 29th February, 2016. The contact point from IIB will be Shri Srikanth Pokkuluri, Head-IT of IIB (srikanth.pokkuluri@iib.gov.in, 8008947272) and Shri Srinivas Sankar Sethi (srinivassethi@iib.gov.in, 9032723168) of IIB.
The configuration details with respect to the Test and Production Servers of iTrex can be downloaded from https://www.itrex.in. A copy of the same is enclosed as Annexure-IV.
The Insurers are advised to confirm the status of uploading of data on a weekly basis starting from 7th March, 2016 to Shri. Sanjay Kumar Verma, Deputy Director, IRDAI (sanjay@irda.gov.in - 8096396395) and Shri. Srikanth Pokkuluri, Head-IT, IIB (srikanth.pokkuluri@iib.gov.in, 8008947272) in the format enclosed at Annexure-V. It may be noted that the process of developing an online application for submission of this data is currently in progress. The details of the same shall be intimated separately.
Sd/- (Sriram Taranikanti) Executive Director
