REGULATIONS


On 23rd September, the insurance regulatory and development authority of India (IRDAI) proposed a significant overhaul of insurance distribution—to bring down insurers' expenses, reintroduce product-linked commission caps, make distributor remuneration more transparent and claw back commissions...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 October 2026
Elon Musk’s battle to bring Starlink’s satellite internet services to India took a contentious turn on Thursday, with the billionaire entrepreneur questioning the influence of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani after the government rejected his allegations that powerful...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 October 2026
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cancelled the certificates of registration (CoR) of 13 non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and accepted the surrender of registration by 10 others.    According to RBI, the exits were due to various reasons, including voluntary discontinuation of NBFC...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 October 2026
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has imposed a penalty of Rs2 lakh on Kolkata-based VCK Share & Stock Broking Services Ltd  for failing to ensure that trading terminals allotted to its authorised persons (APs) were operated only by approved users and for allowing...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 October 2026
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty of ₹5 lakh on Bihar-based Monghyr Jamui Central Cooperative Bank Ltd for non-compliance with certain RBI directions on know-your-customer (KYC) norms.   The statutory inspection of Monghyr Jamui Central Cooperative Bank, conducted by the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 October 2026
A special court dealing with securities market offences in Mumbai has rejected market operator Nirmal Kumar Kotecha’s plea to compound a criminal prosecution linked to alleged price manipulation in Pyramid Saimira Theatre Ltd (PSTL), holding that the case involved conduct with consequences for...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 08 October 2026
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) at Kochi has ordered the winding up of 14 entities linked to the Popular Finance Group and directed the liquidators to trace money collected from the public and identify assets acquired using such funds.   A Bench of Judicial Member Vinay Goel and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 October 2026
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has relaxed the mandatory requirement to appoint a merchant banker for certain private placements of debt securities by listed issuers, subject to stringent eligibility conditions. The move is aimed at streamlining the issuance of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 October 2026
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has introduced a colour-coded ‘Credit Risk-o-Meter’  as a mandatory disclosure mechanism for debt securities to help investors assess the credit risk of an instrument before investing. The new framework will require issuers and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 October 2026
Ruling that the regulatory action against the establishment was taken in the interest of public health and was not arbitrary or malicious, the Supreme Court has set aside a Bombay High Court order directing the Maharashtra food and drug administration (FDA) to pay ₹5 lakh compensation to a...

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Shrirang V Samant 06 October 2026
This is part 2 of a two-part series. Part 1 showed, using the insurance regulatory and development authority of India (IRDA)'s own data, how much of policyholders' premium goes to banks, NBFCs and other distributors as commission. This part explains why the regulator has finally stepped in, how...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 October 2026
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has ordered the immediate recall of a batch of Everest Food Products’ pre-packed cumin powder after laboratory tests found pesticide residues above prescribed limits and declared the sample 'UNSAFE'.   The food regulator has also...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 October 2026
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Sanjay Malhotra has cautioned that long stretches of calm in the financial system can breed the very vulnerabilities that later cause trouble. Speaking at the Fifth Kautilya Economic Conclave on 3 October 2026, he explained how India approaches financial...

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Pranjal R Daniel 02 October 2026
Direct selling involves more than just selling products; it is about offering hope in the form of the possibility of establishing an independent business without the need for the kind of capital required by traditional retail, and of making a living through discipline, product knowledge,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 October 2026
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has revamped its document number verification system (DNVS) by making the subject matter of a letter a mandatory field for verifying physical letters, notices and show-cause notices issued by the regulator.   SEBI had launched the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 October 2026
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has issued a regulatory censure against Eqwires Research Analyst , registered with SEBI as a research analyst (RA), for violations relating to its research recommendations, handling of a client's trading account and publication of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 October 2026
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has cancelled the registrations of three alternative investment funds (AIFs) DAR Mentorcap Film Fund , Arcus Opportunities Fund and SEAF India Agribusiness Fund II  for failing to submit mandatory quarterly activity reports (QARs)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 September 2026
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has imposed a ₹30 lakh penalty jointly and severally on BAO Value Fund, Sparrow Asia Diversified Opportunities Fund and Davos International Fund for violations relating to beneficial ownership disclosures, investor-grouping...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 September 2026
Lloyds Enterprises Ltd and its managing director (MD) Rajesh Rajnarayan Gupta and chief financial officer (CFO) Viresh Shankar Sohoni have paid an aggregate ₹4.16 crore settlement amount  to settle proceedings proposed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) over alleged violations...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 September 2026
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has imposed an aggregate penalty of ₹20 lakh on Hyderabad-based Shares Bazaar Pvt Ltd and the company’s directors and key managerial personnel (KMP) Bhupal Nanavath, Prasanna Lakshmi Atluri and former chief executive officer (CEO)...

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