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Moneylife Digital Team 21 November 2025
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a total penalty of ₹7 lakh on three cooperative banks and a non-banking financial company (NBFC) for non-compliance with regulatory directions. The highest penalty of ₹4 lakh, has been levied on Glowmore Finance Pvt Ltd, an Odisha-based NBFC.   The...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 November 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has issued a strong caution to the public against dealing with unregistered online bond platform providers (OBPPs), following observations that several entities, including fin-tech firms and stock brokers, are offering OBPP-like...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 November 2025
Embassy Office Parks Management Services Pvt Ltd, the manager to Embassy Office Parks REIT (Embassy REIT), has paid Rs18.39 lakh to market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to resolve adjudication proceedings concerning delayed disclosures arising from an order passed by...

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Adv (Dr) Prashant Mali 17 November 2025
India’s digital landscape finally has a uniform, victim-centric framework to deal with one of the most invasive online crimes of our era, the sharing of intimate images without consent. The Union ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) has issued a sweeping standard operating...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 November 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has prohibited Madhya Pradesh-based Capital Vraddhi Financial Services, owned by proprietor Raju Jhariya and registered as a SEBI investment adviser (IA), from on-boarding new clients for six months following extensive findings of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 November 2025
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty of Rs 39.60 lakh on Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Ltd for contravention of provisions of Section 10A of payment and settlement systems act, 2007 (PSS Act) and Section 26A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (BR Act).   RBI’s statutory inspection...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 November 2025
In a landmark step towards strengthening ethical governance and transparency in India’s capital markets regulator, a high-level committee (HLC) on 'conflict of interest, disclosures and related matters' has recommended a comprehensive revamp of the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 November 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has uncovered suspected fund diversions amounting to as much as Rs100 crore in a series of small and medium enterprise (SME) initial public offerings (IPOs) managed by merchant banker First Overseas Capital Ltd (FOCL), according to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 November 2025
The Union government has notified the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules, 2025, a crucial framework that gives operational shape to the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. The move marks a significant step in India’s long-awaited data privacy overhaul and advances compliance...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 November 2025
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty of Rs1.50 lakh on the Tamil Nadu-based Mettupalayam Cooperative Urban Bank for non-compliance with RBI directions. The violations pertain to rules governing loans and advances to directors, their relatives and firms or concerns connected to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 November 2025
Infomerics Valuation and Rating Pvt Ltd, a SEBI-registered credit rating agency (CRA), has paid Rs65.25 lakh to settle regulatory proceedings initiated by market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). The settlement follows SEBI's findings of several lapses and non-compliances...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 November 2025
India’s aviation regulator, the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA), has issued a sweeping safety directive requiring pilots, air traffic controllers (ATCs) and airlines to report any suspected cases of spoofing in the global positioning system (GPS) or interference in the global...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 12 November 2025
The Karnataka High Court recently held that the State government has no authority to regulate the service conditions of employees of the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), ruling that the Central government alone is the “appropriate government” under the Industrial Disputes Act,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 November 2025
Corporate and institutional banking, investment banking and sustainable finance services provider BNP Paribas has paid Rs39.97 lakh to settle adjudication proceedings initiated by market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). The settlement stems from allegations that the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 November 2025
Two non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) have voluntarily surrendered their registration certificates to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), while the regulator has cancelled the registration of two other NBFCs. After deciding to exit the business, these two NBFCs surrendered their registration...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 November 2025
A high-level committee (HLC) chaired by former chief vigilance commissioner (CVC) Pratyush Sinha has submitted its report on 'conflict of interest, disclosures and related matters' concerning members and officials of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). The report was formally...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 November 2025
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed penalties totalling Rs4 lakh on three cooperative banks for failing to comply with the directions issued by the banking regulator. The highest penalty of Rs2 lakh has been imposed on Maharashtra-based Mumbai District Central Co-operative (DCC) Bank...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 November 2025
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has extended the supersession of the board of directors of Mumbai-based Abhyudaya Cooperative Bank Ltd for an additional year, citing the need to safeguard public interest amid ongoing governance concerns.   RBI had first invoked its powers under Section 36AAA,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 November 2025
In a move to protect investors from the growing menace of online investment scams, market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has reached out to major social media platforms and internet search engine providers, urging them to strengthen mechanisms that prevent their...

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Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 06 November 2025
The Delhi High Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on Dabur's plea for an interim injunction against Patanjali Ayurveda's new advertisement, which had allegedly termed all other chyawanprash brands "dhoka" (fraud or deception) (Dabur India Limited v Patanjali Ayurved Limited &...

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