India: Finance and Banking

Subscribe

Finance law and banking law thought leadership, articles, podcasts, videos and webinars from expert sources across the legal world. Explore insights covering topics such as capital adequacy, BASEL, acquisition finance, debt capital markets, fund finance, islamic finance, securitization and structured finance.

SEBI Has Issued Terms And Conditions For DTs Carrying Out Activities Outside The Purview Of SEBI

SEBI vide Circular No. HO/17/11/12(3)2025-DDHS POD1/I/146/2025 dated 25.11.2025 ("DT Circular")1, has specified the terms and conditions for Debenture Trustees ("DTs") for carrying out activities outside...

Sagus Legal

Stewardship Code For Fund Managers And Funds Operating In GIFT City

On October 23, 2025, the IFSCA issued a Circular under the IFSCA (Fund Management) Regulations, 2025 (‘FM Regulations') setting out a stewardship code framework (‘Stewardship Code') for Fund Management Entities...

AP

AZB & Partners

AKP Banking & Finance Digest January 27, 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.

Worldwide Finance

AP

AK & Partners

Key Changes In The AIF Landscape In 2025

Co-investments have long been a feature to private equity funds globally, allowing high-profile investors to participate directly in portfolio opportunities.

A

Acuity Law

RBI Notifies Foreign Exchange Management (Guarantees) Regulations, 2026.

Sagus Legal

RBI Notifies RBI (Non-Banking Financial Companies - Concentration Risk Management) Amendment Directions, 2026

Sagus Legal

Compliance Reporting Formats For Specialized Investment Funds (SIFs) Issued By SEBI.

Sagus Legal

RBI (Non-Operative Financial Companies) (Amendment) Directions, 2025

AP

AZB & Partners

RBI (Trade Relief Measures) Directions, 2025

AP

AZB & Partners

Investment In Corporate Debt Securities By Persons Resident Outside India Through Special Rupee Vostro Account

AP

AZB & Partners

RBI Amends Foreign Exchange Management (Export Of Goods And Services) Regulations, 2015

AP

AZB & Partners

Modalities For Migration To Schemes Of AI-Only Funds And Relaxations To LVFs Under AIF Regulations

AP

AZB & Partners

SEBI Circular On Certification Requirement For Compliance Officers Of Managers Of AIFs

AP

AZB & Partners

RBI Amends Foreign Exchange Management (Foreign Currency Accounts By A Person Resident In India) Regulations, 2015

AP

AZB & Partners

Year In Review: 10 Indian Competition Law Judgments That Mattered

India Anti-trust

SA

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

Consent Managers Are India's Next Big Opportunity: Here's The FAQ You Need

AP

AK & Partners

MeitY Signals A Sharper Turn In India's Data Protection Rollout

HS

Hammurabi & Solomon

The New Labour Codes In Practice: A Compliance Roadmap For Employers

India Employment

DD

Dhir & Dhir Associates

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

India Commercial

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

See more

Related Country Guides

Project Finance

Alternative Investment Funds

Secured Lending

Capital Adequacy/BASEL

SEBI Notifies Consequential Requirements For Amended Merchant Bankers Regulations

The Securities and Exchange Board of India ("SEBI") by way of circular dated 02.01.2026 ("MB Circular"), has specified the consequential requirements...

India Commercial

Sagus Legal

Net Worth Liquid Capital And Chinese Walls Under SEBI's New Merchant Banker Framework

India's merchant banking industry is entering a more demanding regulatory phase in which capital strength, liquid buffers and governance standards will matter as much as deal making credentials.

LP

Legitpro Law

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

AP

AK & Partners

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

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

See more

Debt Capital Markets

MoF Introduced A Bill On The Securities Markets Code, 2025 In Lok Sabha To Consolidate Securities Laws.

The Securities Markets Code, 2025 was introduced in the Lok Sabha by the Ministry of Finance ("MoF") on 18.12.2025 as Bill No. 200 of 2025 ("Draft Code").

Sagus Legal

Supreme Court Held That EPF Dues Have Priority Over Secured Creditors Under SARFAESI Act

However, if there is a first charge statutorily created, dehors the non obstante clause conferring priority over other debts, the statutory charge would prevail

India Litigation

Sagus Legal

SEBI Introduces Modification In The Conditions Specified For Reduction In Denomination Of Debt Securities.

SEBI by way of Circular No. HO/17/11/24(1)2025-DDHS POD1/I/491/2025 dated 18.12.2025 ("NCS Circular") , has modified the conditions for reduction in denomination of debt securities to include zero coupon debt securities.

Sagus Legal

Should You Set Up An Entity In GIFT City

KS

King, Stubb & Kasiva

General Newsletter – January 2026

DL

DSK Legal

India's LEI Mandate For Borrowers

LP

Legitpro Law

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

See more

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

See more

Financial Services

2026: Risk Is The New Currency (Video)

In 2026, the most definitive line item on the balance sheet will not be cash. It will not be capital. It will be risk.

India Compliance

mI

Counselect Services Pvt. Ltd.

Union Budget 2026: Indirect Tax Analysis

In this budget update we have highlighted the key changes made to the indirect tax regime inthe Union Budget presented by the Hon'ble Finance Minister on February 1, 2026.

AP

Argus Partners

MCA Amends Companies (Meetings Of Board And Its Powers) Rules, 2014 To Extend Certain Exemptions To IFSCA-Registered Finance Companies

On November 3, 2025, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (‘MCA') issued the Companies (Meetings of Board and its Powers) Amendment Rules, 2025 (‘MBP Amendment')...

India Commercial

AP

AZB & Partners

Data Privacy Compliance In Digital Lending & Financial Services

KS

King, Stubb & Kasiva

Karnataka's Digital E-Stamp Regime Goes Live: What The Kaveri-2 Rollout Means For Property, Banking And Compliance

India Government

KS

King, Stubb & Kasiva

SEBI Has Issued Terms And Conditions For DTs Carrying Out Activities Outside The Purview Of SEBI

Sagus Legal

Stewardship Code For Fund Managers And Funds Operating In GIFT City

AP

AZB & Partners

AKP Banking & Finance Digest January 27, 2026

Worldwide Finance

AP

AK & Partners

Key Changes In The AIF Landscape In 2025

A

Acuity Law

See more

Latest Videos

See more

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

AP

AK & Partners

RBI Update: Floating Interest# Rate Reset For Personal Loans (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

J

JSA

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

Saga Legal

Mondaq uses cookies on this website. By using our website you agree to our use of cookies as set out in our Privacy Policy.

Learn More