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Refining The AML/KYC Framework For Ifscs: An Analysis Of IFSCA's January 2026 Circular

The International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) to continue its steady recalibration of India's offshore financial regulatory framework with the issuance of a circular dated 2nd January 20261...

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

SEBI Settlements: A Vital Tool For India Fund Managers

The regulatory landscape for India's funds industry has undergone significant transformation in the past decade.

AP

AZB & Partners

AKP Banking & Finance Digest January 12, 2026

We are delighted to share this week's AKP Banking & Finance Weekly Digest. Please feel free to write to us with your feedback at info@akandpartners.in.

AP

AK & Partners

RBI's Universal Bank Guidelines 2025: Key Strategic Shifts In Governance, Capital And Innovation

The Reserve Bank of India (Universal Banks - Licensing) Guidelines, 2025 ("Guidelines") represent a significant update to India's banking licensing system regime.

AP

AK & Partners

India's LEI Mandate For Borrowers

LP

Legitpro Law

Testing Of Tomorrow's Finance: IFSCA's Draft FinTech Sandbox Framework- Key Features, Eligibility & Regulatory Implications

AP

AK & Partners

RBI's Outsourcing Directions 2025: Re-defining Control, Accountability, And Contracting For NBFCs

KS

King, Stubb & Kasiva

Balancing Relaxation And Risk: A Critical Analysis Of Gaps In Reserve Bank Of India (Investment In AIF) Directions, 2025

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Luthra and Luthra Law Offices India

GIFT City Updates (December 2025)

HS

Hammurabi & Solomon

Redemption And Limitation In Usufructuary Mortgages: The Supreme Court's Clarification In Dalip Singh v. Sawan Singh

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

RBI Regulatory Reset 2025. Navigating The Consolidation Of Circulars Into Master Directions (Video)

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

A Regulatory Perspective On RBI Guidelines On Wholly Owned Subsidiaries: Is India Setting A New Benchmark In Foreign Bank Regulation?

AP

AK & Partners

RBI's New Non-Fund Based Credit Framework: Key Changes, Opportunities And Compliance Priorities

AP

AK & Partners

RBI Master Direction On Digital Payment Aggregators: Understanding Compliance Requirements And Industry Implications

AP

AK & Partners

SEBI's Crackdown On Finfluencers: Regulations And Enforcement

India Commercial

AL

Aarna Law

Cracking The Code: The New Labour Laws At A Glance

India Employment

AP

Argus Partners

Recent Developments In India's Corporate & Commercial Laws - Highlights | 2025

India Commercial

Fox & Mandal

Investor Alert: SEBI Opens Doors To Scalable Co-Investments In AIFs (Podcast)

AP

AK & Partners

F&M - Dispute Resolution & ADR - Highlights 2025

India Litigation

Fox & Mandal

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Capital Adequacy/BASEL

Strengthening The Core: Key Changes In RBI's Commercial Bank Governance Directions 2025

The Reserve Bank of India's ("RBI") Commercial Banks – Governance Directions, 2025 ("Directions") mark a decisive shift in how Indian banks are expected...

India Commercial

AP

AK & Partners

RBI's Universal Bank Guidelines 2025: Key Strategic Shifts In Governance, Capital And Innovation

The Reserve Bank of India (Universal Banks - Licensing) Guidelines, 2025 ("Guidelines") represent a significant update to India's banking licensing system regime.

AP

AK & Partners

RBI Issues Revised Guidelines For Wholly Owned Subsidiaries (WOS) Of Foreign Banks – 2025

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), through Circular No. RBI/DOR/2025-26/144 dated November 28, 2025, has issued a significantly updated framework governing the establishment and operation of Wholly Owned Subsidiaries (WOS) by foreign banks in India.

KS

King, Stubb & Kasiva

SEBI (Custodian) (Amendment) Regulations, 2025: Raising Standards For Custodians Of Securities

India Commercial

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

NBFC/CIC Classification Issue

MC

MAHESHWARI & CO. Advocates & Legal Consultants

AKP Banking & Finance Digest August 25, 2025

AP

AK & Partners

RBI Issues Draft Circular On Counterparty Credit Risk And Potential Future Exposure

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

Key Developments In India's Evolving Financial Framework

AP

AZB & Partners

Regulatory Disruption: Are Banks And NBFCs Prepared For RBI's Next Oversight Wave?

AL

Aarna Law

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Debt Capital Markets

India's LEI Mandate For Borrowers

The requirement for borrowers with aggregate fund-based and non-fund-based exposure of INR 5 crores and above to obtain a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) represents a significant regulatory intervention in India's credit and financial reporting framework.

LP

Legitpro Law

A Regulatory Perspective On RBI Guidelines On Wholly Owned Subsidiaries: Is India Setting A New Benchmark In Foreign Bank Regulation?

For over a decade, India's approach to foreign bank presence remained restrictive. Despite the 2005 roadmap allowing foreign banks to choose between branch...

AP

AK & Partners

RBI's New Non-Fund Based Credit Framework: Key Changes, Opportunities And Compliance Priorities

The Reserve Bank of India ("RBI"), exercising the powers granted by the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, RBI Act, 1934 and the National Housing Bank Act...

AP

AK & Partners

RBI Master Direction On Digital Payment Aggregators: Understanding Compliance Requirements And Industry Implications

AP

AK & Partners

How India's Securities Markets Code, 2025, Will Reshape Compliance, Capital Raising And Cross Border Money

LP

Legitpro Law

Reserve Bank Of India's Draft Directions Governing Acquisition Finance By Commercial Banks: A Paradigm Shift In India's Capital Market Regulatory Framework

India Commercial

MC

MAHESHWARI & CO. Advocates & Legal Consultants

Decoding The Banking Laws (Amendment) Act, 2025

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

AKP Banking & Finance Digest December 08, 2025

AP

AK & Partners

How Draft ECB Regulations 2025 Affect Borrowers, Lenders And AD Banks

LP

Legitpro Law

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Charges, Mortgages, Indemnities

Redemption And Limitation In Usufructuary Mortgages: The Supreme Court's Clarification In Dalip Singh v. Sawan Singh

In a judgment dated 12 November 2025, the Supreme Court of India clarified the law governing redemption of usufructuary mortgages and the applicability of limitation in Dalip...

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

RERA's Iron Grip Strengthened: Courts Redefine Allottee Rights In Mortgages, Leases & Insolvency

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (RERA), was enacted as a broad safeguard for India's purchasers, a group of consumers that has historically been exposed to the opaque and unaccountable...

India Real Estate

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

Default Is Default—Even On A Half-Disbursed Loan: NCLAT Clears Axis Bank's CIRP Trigger

On 6 October 2025, NCLAT's Principal Bench, New Delhi, delivered a terse but telling reminder that the CIRP under the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016 is triggered by default, not the degree of disbursement or the robustness of security.

India Insolvency

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

No Shortcut On Stamp Duty – Supreme Court Says Security Bonds By Debtors Are Mortgage Deeds

India Real Estate

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

Sagus Speaks - August 2025 | Part 1

India Commercial

Sagus Legal

AKP Corporate & Compliance Digest August 11, 2025

India Employment

AP

AK & Partners

Registration Bill 2025 - Impact On Finance And Real Estate Sectors

India Real Estate

AP

Argus Partners

Reserve Bank Of India Vide Notification Dated July 02, 2025, Has Issued Reserve Bank Of India (Pre-payment Charges On Loans) Directions, 2025

LF

Lex Favios

Bombay High Court: Validity Of Mortgage In Breach Of The Underlying Lease Deed

AP

Argus Partners

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Financial Services

Refining The AML/KYC Framework For Ifscs: An Analysis Of IFSCA's January 2026 Circular

The International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) to continue its steady recalibration of India's offshore financial regulatory framework with the issuance of a circular dated 2nd January 20261...

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

SEBI Settlements: A Vital Tool For India Fund Managers

The regulatory landscape for India's funds industry has undergone significant transformation in the past decade.

AP

AZB & Partners

Fintech Frontline: Legal And Market Intelligence From India

On the capital markets front, the Securities and Exchange Board of India ("SEBI") intensified its regulatory agenda through a series of governance, compliance, and investor protection measures.

India Technology

I

CMS INDUSLAW

SEBI (Stock Brokers) Regulations, 2026: A Structural Reset Of India's Broking Regulatory Framework

India Commercial

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

Implementing DPDPA In Banking: From Legal Text To Live Systems

Saga Legal

Stablecoins In India: A Regulatory Conundrum

India Technology

DL

DSK Legal

AKP Banking & Finance Digest January 12, 2026

AP

AK & Partners

Strengthening The Core: Key Changes In RBI's Commercial Bank Governance Directions 2025

India Commercial

AP

AK & Partners

RBI's Universal Bank Guidelines 2025: Key Strategic Shifts In Governance, Capital And Innovation

AP

AK & Partners

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Latest Videos

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Investor Alert: SEBI Opens Doors To Scalable Co-Investments In AIFs (Podcast)

AP

AK & Partners

The Invisible Shield: How RBI's Nodal Account Protects Your Money In Every Online Transaction (Video)

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

A Distinct Approach To Capital Investment: Alternative Investment Funds (AIF) (Video)

CP

Corporate Professionals

JSA Mint Video & Podcast Series | Episode 3: Financing India's Growth Story

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JSA

Navigating The Funding Frontier: Insights For Startup Founders (Video)

Saga Legal

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