REGULATIONS


Jitender Kumar Jain 24 December 2025
In line with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law - Legislative Guide on Insolvency Law, India enacted the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) as a comprehensive and time-bound framework for resolving insolvency in India. IBC sought to balance creditor interests and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 December 2025
The introduction of the Securities Markets Code Bill, 2025 in Parliament last week marks one of the most far-reaching overhauls of India’s capital market regulatory architecture in decades, as the government moves to consolidate multiple legacy laws into a single, principle-based framework...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 December 2025
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty of ₹61.95 lakh on Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd for non-compliance with RBI directions. These relate to access to banking services, including basic savings bank deposit (BSBD) accounts, the scope of activities of business correspondents (BCs) and...

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Almost five years ago, a single sentence tucked into finance minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget speech of February 2021 should have reshaped India’s capital market regulation: “I propose to consolidate the provisions of the SEBI Act, 1992, Depositories Act, 1996, Securities Contracts...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 December 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has imposed a joint and several penalty of ₹50 lakh on Manish Mishra, Anshu Mishra, Sunil Bhandari and Rekha Bhandari (notices) for engaging in manipulative trading practices in the shares of GG Engineering Ltd (GGENG). The penalty...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 December 2025
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty of ₹3 lakh on two cooperative banks from Tamil Nadu for non-compliance with the directions issued by the banking regulator. The highest penalty of ₹2.50 lakh has been imposed on Arakonam Cooperative Urban Bank Ltd. The other lender, Tamilnadu...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 December 2025
India's capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has announced a significant restructuring of how mutual fund expenses are calculated and charged to investors. On 17 December 2025, SEBI introduced sweeping changes aimed at reducing costs for investors while...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 December 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Wednesday approved a sweeping overhaul of mutual fund regulations that will lower expense ratios for investors, rationalise brokerage costs and simplify compliance, while deferring a final decision on the recommendations of a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 December 2025
National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) has paid ₹15.57 crore to settle adjudication proceedings initiated by market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) arising from SEBI’s inspection of the depository for FY23–24, including delays and procedural errors in the freezing and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 December 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has initiated recovery proceedings to recover ₹18.14 crore from finfluencer Mohammad Nasiruddin Ansari, popularly known as ‘Baap of Charts’, along with Rahul Rao Padamati and Golden Syndicate Ventures Pvt Ltd, for running...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 December 2025
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty of ₹1 lakh on the Tamil Nadu-based Kovilpatti Cooperative Urban Bank for non-compliance with directions issued by the banking regulator.   Kovilpatti Cooperative Urban Bank has been penalised for non-compliance with directions issued by RBI on...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 16 December 2025
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has clarified that WhatsApp is required to comply with Competition Commission of India (CCI)'s directions to give users greater control over whether their data is shared with other Meta companies (WhatsApp Vs Competition Commission of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 December 2025
In one of the more extraordinary enforcement actions in recent years, market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has cancelled the registration of Purooskhan, a so-called research analyst (RA), who, by his own admission, had little understanding of the securities market and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 December 2025
India’s largest airline, IndiGo, has been hit by widespread flight disruptions over the past weeks, inconveniencing thousands of passengers. Officially, the narrative points to regulatory lapses and supervisory failure. But scratch the surface and a far more disturbing picture emerges—one of...

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For the third time since India opened its skies to private airlines, a carrier has discovered that the fastest way to bend the State is not through policy lobbying—but by holding passengers hostage. Planes are grounded; chaos is unleashed; and the government, fearful of systemic collapse, blinks...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 December 2025
The securities appellate tribunal (SAT) has substantially reduced the penalties to ₹3 lakh from ₹25 lakh imposed on Dr Pawan Singh, former managing director and chief executive officer (MD&CEO) of PTC India Financial Services Ltd (PFS), ruling that most corporate governance allegations levelled...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 December 2025
Directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) has removed four senior flight operations inspectors (FOIs) who were responsible for overseeing IndiGo’s operations, as the country’s largest airline continues to grapple with a severe operational breakdown that has disrupted travel plans for lakhs...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 December 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has once again postponed the implementation of Phase III of its circular on revising and revamping nomination facilities in the Indian securities market. The earlier deadline of 15 December 2025 has now been placed on hold, and SEBI...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 December 2025
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty of ₹13,000 on Odisha-based Cooperative Urban Bank Ltd, for non-compliance with the directions issued by the banking regulator.   Cooperative Urban Bank has been penalised for non-compliance with specific directions issued by RBI under the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 December 2025
As many as four non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) have surrendered their registration certificates to Reserve Bank of India (RBI), while the regulator cancelled the registration of four other NBFCs. The reasons for these exits include voluntary discontinuation of business, meeting the...

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