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Moneylife Digital Team 31 March 2026
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed penalties totalling ₹36.30 lakh on Airtel Payments Bank Ltd and two cooperative banks for non-compliance with the directions issued by the banking regulator. The highest penalty of ₹31.80 lakh has been levied on Airtel Payments Bank.   The other...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 March 2026
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed penalties totalling ₹2.20 crore on Union Bank of India (UBI), Central Bank of India (CBI), Bank of India (BOI) and Pine Labs Ltd a fin-tech and payment technology company for non-compliance with the directions issued by the banking regulator. The highest...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 March 2026
Ramesh Kunhikannan, managing director (MD) of Kaynes Technology India Ltd (KTIL), has settled an insider trading-related case with the Securities and Exchange Board of India by paying ₹23.42 lakh, bringing an end to adjudication proceedings initiated over alleged violations of regulatory...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 March 2026
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has barred Vishvanath Goswami, Umang Chaturvedi, Shyam Chaturvedi and Vinod Kumar Chaturvedi from accessing the securities market for two years and imposed a penalty of ₹5 lakh each aggregating to ₹20 lakh in a front-running case...

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In banking, confidence can evaporate faster than capital. The point was driven home on 18 March 2026 when the cryptic resignation letter of HDFC Bank’s part-time chairman, Atanu Chakraborty, triggered a sharp market reaction and raised legitimate questions about board processes, disclosure...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 March 2026
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has cancelled the registration of Elite Investment Advisory Services, a proprietary firm run by Rajiv Kumar Singh, after finding a series of serious violations ranging from misleading clients to flouting basic compliance...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 March 2026
In a series of adjudication orders, the market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), has imposed total penalties of ₹16 lakh on multiple stock brokers for their association with the algorithmic trading platform TradeTron, which was found to be hosting strategies making...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 March 2026
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has issued a regulatory censure against Streetgains Research Services, a research analyst entity run by Kumar Venkataramegowda Santhosh, and barred it from onboarding new clients for one month.    The action follows SEBI’s...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 March 2026
The ongoing liquified petroleum gas (LPG) crisis triggered by the West Asia conflict has prompted the Indian government to issue what may be its most significant energy infrastructure reform in years. The Natural Gas and Petroleum Products Distribution (Through Laying, Building, Operation and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 March 2026
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has imposed penalties totalling ₹23 lakh on four individuals in a front-running case linked to Sarvottam Securities Pvt Ltd, while also flagging unlawful gains of about ₹2.65 crore made through misuse of non-public...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 March 2026
The Supreme Court has refused to interfere with an order of securities appellate tribunal (SAT) directing Avadhut Sathe Trading Academy Pvt Ltd (ASTA) to deposit ₹100 crore in connection with proceedings initiated by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) over alleged unregistered...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 March 2026
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty of ₹3.60 lakh on five cooperative banks and Vedvyas Finance Pvt Ltd, a non-banking financial company (NBFC) from Odisha, for non-compliance with the directions issued by the banking regulator. The highest penalty of ₹1 lakh has been imposed on...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 March 2026
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)'s board has finally approved a wide-ranging set of reforms to its own conflict of interest framework, accepting most recommendations of a high-level committee (HLC) chaired by former chief vigilance commissioner Pratyush Sinha, a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 March 2026
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty of ₹31.80 lakh on Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd (HSBC) for failing to comply with its directions on inoperative accounts and unclaimed deposits, as per the revised instructions issued to banks.   RBI statutory inspection found...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 March 2026
Sixteenth Street Asian GEMS Fund has settled proceedings with the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) by paying a settlement amount of ₹72.87 lakh, in a case involving multiple violations of foreign portfolio investor (FPI) regulations, including failure to disclose...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 March 2026
JP Morgan Chase Bank has settled proceedings with the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) by paying a settlement amount of ₹34.42 lakh for alleged violations of foreign portfolio investor (FPI) regulations.   According to the settlement order, JP Morgan Chase Bank...

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KBS Sidhu 20 March 2026
With its proposed 2026 amendments to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA), the Indian government is no longer content with merely tracking foreign contributions. By seeking control over assets created from such funds when licences lapse, it signals a deeper shift in the balance...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 March 2026
The insurance regulatory and development authority of India (IRDAI) has asked insurers to sharply reduce commissions on policies sold through the upcoming BimaSugam platform, with companies committing to offering 'zero commission' products and charging only a nominal platform fee, according to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 March 2026
Urging the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) to provide urgent clarifications and roll back recent relaxations in duty norms, the Airline Pilots' Association of India (ALPA) has raised serious concerns over flight safety, crew fatigue and insurance coverage for Indian pilots...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 March 2026
India's consumer dispute redressal system, built on the promise of quick, affordable justice for ordinary buyers, is in a state of deep institutional crisis, with half of all state consumer commissions functioning without a president, nearly 90 of the country's 775 districts entirely without a...

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