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Moneylife Digital Team 14 January 2026
A fresh controversy has erupted over India’s proposed smartphone security framework after the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) questioned the Indian government’s denial of plans to mandate source code access for smartphones, citing publicly available government documents and reporting by...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 January 2026
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has imposed a penalty of ₹15 lakh on Gretex Corporate Services Ltd, a SEBI-registered merchant banker (MB), for multiple failures in due diligence, disclosure and regulatory compliance across several public issues, including small...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 January 2026
India’s proposed overhaul of smartphone security standards has triggered concern among global technology companies after a Reuters report says the government is considering measures that could require access to proprietary source code, a claim that the Union government has now formally...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 13 January 2026
The Chennai Bench of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Tuesday initiated suo motu contempt proceedings against a resolution professional (RP) for allegedly attempting to bypass an interim appellate order. (National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, Chennai Bench v. Anil Kumar...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 13 January 2026
Even as bank deposits and credit have recorded a sharp expansion over the past decade, the pace of growth in investor participation has outstripped the rise in traditional savings. At the same time, unclaimed deposits have surged at an alarming rate, according to a research report from the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 January 2026
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has significantly relaxed its technical glitch framework for stock brokers, exempting nearly 60% of intermediaries from its ambit, extending reporting timelines, narrowing the definition of reportable glitches and rationalising...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 January 2026
Markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) decided to integrate digital signature certificate (DSC) functionality into the common application form (CAF) portal, aiming to fully digitise the foreign portfolio investor (FPI) onboarding process.    With this enhancement,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 January 2026
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty of ₹1 lakh on Jharkhand-based Pinnacle Capital Solutions Pvt Ltd, a non-banking financial company (NBFC), for non-compliance with the directions issued by RBI on default loss guarantee (DLG) in digital lending.   RBI's statutory inspection...

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Bhavini Srivastava (Bar  and   Bench) 07 January 2026
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought a response from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) alleging violation of borrowers’ privacy rights by non-banking financial corporations (NBFCs) and their digital lending mobile applications (Himakshi Bhargav v. Union...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 January 2026
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cancelled registration certificates (CoR) of 35 non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and accepted the surrender of registration by 16 others, while restoring the licence of one NBFC following orders passed by appellate authorities and courts.   In a set of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 January 2026
The competition commission of India (CCI) has found that market leaders Tata Steel, JSW Steel and State-run Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), along with 25 other companies, breached antitrust law by colluding on steel selling prices, putting the firms and several senior executives at risk of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 January 2026
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a total penalty of ₹50,000 on two Mumbai-based non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), for non-compliance with the directions issued by the banking regulator. The highest penalty of ₹40,000 has been imposed on Sankhya Financial Services Pvt Ltd. Shaha...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 January 2026
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty of ₹2 lakh on Mau, Uttar Pradesh-based Jila Sahakari Bank Ltd for non-compliance with directions issued by RBI on know-your-customer (KYC).   RBI’s statutory inspection revealed that Jila Sahakari Bank had failed to establish a system for the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 January 2026
India’s aviation safety framework has come under heightened scrutiny following a series of regulatory actions involving the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA), judicial intervention by the Madras High Court, and enforcement proceedings initiated by Canadian authorities against Air...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 January 2026
In a significant compliance relief for company directors, the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) has replaced the annual know-your-customer (KYC) requirement with a simpler KYC intimation once every three years under the Companies Act, 2013. The revised framework will come into effect from 31...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 January 2026
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has directed Paresh Nathalal Chauhan to disgorge illegal gains of ₹1.62 crore along with interest at the rate of 8%pa (per annum) and imposed a monetary penalty of ₹5 lakh for his role in a fraudulent scheme involving the shares of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 January 2026
In one of the more exhaustive crackdowns on manipulation in the SME segment, the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has ordered the disgorgement of ₹98.78 lakh in unlawful gains along with the interest at the rate of 12%pa (per annum), imposed market bans ranging...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 December 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has imposed a penalty of ₹15 lakh on Prerna Sharma, a registered research analyst (RA), following an on-site inspection conducted from 20 to 22 March 2023. The inspection revealed multiple violations of the SEBI (Research Analyst)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 December 2025
The comptroller and auditor general has uncovered substantial deficiencies in the execution of two major rural electrification initiatives, identifying widespread delays, procedural violations, and financial irregularities that have undermined their effectiveness.   The performance audit...

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Market regulator Tuhin Kanta Pandey appears genuinely keen on protecting investors by ensuring that they have access to corporate information in an easy-to-understand format. In a recent media interview, he signalled that the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) will take on this task...

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