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Moneylife Digital Team 29 September 2025
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed penalties of Rs17.20 lakh on five cooperative Banks and Muthoot FinCorp Ltd a non-banking financial company (NBFC) for non-compliance with the directions issued by the banking regulator. The highest penalty of Rs10 lakh has been imposed on Gayatri...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 September 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has imposed a penalty of Rs5 lakh on Narendra Ramshankar Dubey for manipulating the share price of Max Heights Infrastructure Ltd (MHIL), a company listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).   The case arose after an internal...

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There is always a good reason to do the wrong thing. On 12 September 2025, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), at its board meeting, approved significant changes to the minimum public shareholding (MPS) norms for large companies. The current requirement is that companies dilute...

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Jitender Kumar Jain 26 September 2025
In 2016, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2026 (IBC) was introduced as a transformative piece of legislation aimed at resolving corporate distress in a time-bound and efficient manner. It was a bold and visionary move by the Narendra Modi government, with the late Arun Jaitley playing a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 September 2025
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has called on banks to step up their efforts to trace and return unclaimed deposits worth more than Rs67,000 crore to their rightful owners. These unclaimed amounts include dormant savings and current accounts, matured fixed deposits, as well as uncollected...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 September 2025
Uncovering a series of fraudulent practices that included fabricating over Rs900 crore worth of sales, misrepresenting financial statements, siphoning funds raised through rights issues and serious lapses in corporate governance, market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 September 2025
The Maharashtra government has announced plans to introduce a new policy aimed at granting occupation certificates (OCs) to over 25,000 buildings across Mumbai’s suburbs. This move targets structures built under various bodies, including BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Maharashtra...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 September 2025
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued the final framework governing authentication mechanisms for digital payment transactions, marking a significant shift in the regulatory landscape for payment security. The Reserve Bank of India (Authentication Mechanisms for Digital Payment...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 September 2025
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has closed proceedings against Equicom Financial Research Pvt Ltd and its directors, Amit Kukda and Akhilesh Raghuvanshi, over unresolved investor complaints, stating that no additional punitive action was warranted since the firm and its...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 September 2025
The special court for economic offences in Hyderabad has convicted Heera Foodex Pvt Ltd and its director Dr Aalima Nowhera Shaik, founder of the Heera group, in a case filed by the registrar of companies (RoC) for failing to submit statutory financial documents.   In its order on 23 September...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 September 2025
Torrent Power Ltd’s general manager for finance Rishi Sudhirbhai Shah has paid Rs39 lakh to settle an insider trading case with market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).   The settlement, which was concluded after Mr Shah agreed to pay Rs39 lakh, was approved through...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 September 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has floated a consultation paper  to overhaul the existing framework for addressing ‘technical glitches’ in stockbrokers’ electronic trading systems. The revised framework, which is slated to take effect from 1 November 2025,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 September 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has imposed a penalty of Rs25 lakh on two individuals after finding them guilty of insider trading in the shares of Nucleus Software Exports Ltd. In its adjudication order, SEBI says Anupam Gupta and his cousin, Nitin Kumar Garg,...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 24 September 2025
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Tuesday told the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) that Meta’s size, resources and integration of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp places it far ahead of competitors, making WhatsApp the dominant force in India’s market for...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 23 September 2025
Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta on Sunday said that the system of allowing litigants to choose their arbitrators has created serious concerns regarding integrity in arbitration, and that parliament has to step in and address the issue.   Explaining why confidence in arbitration has...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 September 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has imposed a joint and several penalty of Rs10 lakh on Shubham Mittal (noticee 1), Skylarge Realcon Pvt Ltd (noticee 2), Gaurav Narang (noticee 3), Bigsea Trading Company Pvt Ltd (noticee 4), Rekha Narang (noticee 5), Jagtarni...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 September 2025
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan R Gavai on Saturday called for the creation of a centralised mechanism to filter government appeals before they reach higher courts, emphasising that such a step would help ease the massive pendency of cases across the judicial system.   Speaking at the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 September 2025
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cancelled the certificate of registration (CoR) of Datta Finance and Trading Pvt Ltd, a Delhi-based non-banking financial company (NBFC), due to irregular lending practices, violating regulatory guidelines.   The cancellation, exercised under Section 45-IA (6)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 September 2025
In a major step towards simplifying the investment experience, the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has introduced a new mechanism to ensure seamless transmission of securities from a nominee to the rightful legal heir, thereby reducing tax-related hassles and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 September 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has dismissed allegations of financial misconduct against the Adani group, ruling that transactions routed through Adicorp Enterprises Pvt Ltd, Milestone Tradelinks Pvt Ltd and Rehvar Infrastructure Pvt Ltd do not constitute...

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