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

The Reserve Bank of India's Managing Risks in Outsourcing Directions, 2025 ("Directions") represent a fundamental re-orientation of how outsourcing is regulated in the Indian financial sector.

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King, Stubb & Kasiva

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

Alternative Investment Funds ("AIFs") have emerged as a crucial component of India's economic growth as they channel funds into private equity, real estate, venture capital, and also distressed assets.

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Luthra and Luthra Law Offices India

GIFT City Updates (December 2025)

On December 8, 2025, the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) issued a circular amending Module No. 16 (Providing Credit)...

HS

Hammurabi & Solomon

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

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

RBI's 2025 Amendment Directions On Financial Services By Scheduled Commercial Banks

Saga Legal

AKP Banking & Finance Digest January 05, 2026

AP

AK & Partners

Mastering The Vault: RBI's Cash Reserve Ratio And Statutory Liquidity Ratio Compliance Guide For CFOs

AP

AK & Partners

A Deep Dive Into IFSCA (Fund Management) Regulations, 2025: Key Regulatory Insights For Fund And Asset Managers

AP

AK & Partners

Amendment To The Merchant Banker Rules By SEBI

MC

MAHESHWARI & CO. Advocates & Legal Consultants

RBI Master Directions 2025, Compliance And Operational Challenges For Payment Aggregators.

LP

Legitpro Law

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

AP

AK & Partners

What 100% FDI Really Means Under India's Draft Foreign Investment Rules, 2025

India Government

LP

Legitpro Law

Argus Talks: Decrypting Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 (Video)

AP

Argus Partners

Dematerialised Shares And Stamp Duty: When Federal Disputes Burden Corporate India

India Commercial

CP

Corporate Professionals

Impetus To GCCs In India: Rajasthan Releases Its GCC Policy

India Employment

KC

Khaitan & Co LLP

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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.

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King, Stubb & Kasiva

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

On 18 September 2025, the Securities and Exchange Board of India ("SEBI") notified the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Custodian) (Amendment) Regulations,

India Commercial

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

NBFC/CIC Classification Issue

Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) and Core Investment Companies (CICs) have an integral position in the financial system of India, especially in bridging the credit gap...

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

General Newsletter, May 2025

India Commercial

DL

DSK Legal

Section 194T – A New Compliance Frontier For Partnership Firms And LLPs

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Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan

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Debt Capital Markets

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

On September 15, 2025, the Reserve Bank of India ("RBI") issued a single, consolidated Master Direction ("MD") to regulate Payment Aggregators ("PAs") operating in India...

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

Draft ECB Regulations 2025: A New FEMA Playbook For Foreign Borrowing

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

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Lex Favios

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

AP

Argus Partners

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Financial Services

Fintech Frontline: Legal And Market Intelligence From India (November 2025)

India's fintech and financial services ecosystem continues to evolve rapidly, with regulators undertaking significant measures to enhance market integrity...

India Technology

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CMS INDUSLAW

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

The Reserve Bank of India's Managing Risks in Outsourcing Directions, 2025 ("Directions") represent a fundamental re-orientation of how outsourcing is regulated in the Indian financial sector.

KS

King, Stubb & Kasiva

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

Alternative Investment Funds ("AIFs") have emerged as a crucial component of India's economic growth as they channel funds into private equity, real estate, venture capital, and also distressed assets.

La

Luthra and Luthra Law Offices India

FinTales Edition 42 – Immutable Ledgers, Mutable Gold

India Technology

I

Ikigai Law

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

Strategic Governance Under RBI's (Commercial Banks – Undertaking Of Financial Services) Directions, 2025: Essential Insights For Investors And Promoters

India Commercial

AP

AK & Partners

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

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Latest Videos

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RBI Directions, 2025 | Breaking Down The New Compliance Framework For Banks & NBFCs (Video)

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

26 Ind AS 2025 Amendments: Supplier Finance, Liability Shifts & Global Tax Rules (Podcast)

AP

AK & Partners

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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