India: FinTech

Payroll in the UAE carries a weight that many business owners underestimate until something goes wrong. A late salary transfer or a rejected file isn't just an internal issue. It's a compliance event that MoHRE (Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation) tracks and acts on. Every employer running payroll here has to route wages through the Wage Protection System. Getting that process right consistently, month after month, matters just as much as getting it right once.

Most businesses have become comfortable with UAE corporate tax filing by now.  The deadlines are on the calendar, the forms are familiar, and finance teams are well into the rhythm. What fewer businesses have stopped to check is whether the accounting software they're running can actually keep up with what's coming next.  This includes everything from transfer pricing schedules to the phased rollout of e-invoicing.  This guide explains what that readiness actually looks like for finance directors, SME owners, and compliance officers working through UAE corporate tax compliance right now.

The Reserve Bank of India's latest amendment on digital fraud fundamentally reshapes liability in India's financial ecosystem by mandating that banks immediately credit fraud victims before determining fault, effectively ending the long-standing practice of institutional finger-pointing. This decisive regulatory intervention forces banks to absorb third-party breach losses upfront and recover separately from responsible intermediaries, prioritizing consumer protection over institutional convenience.

On 14 March 2026, Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha introduced the Private Member's Bill on Asset Tokenisation (Regulation)...

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The RBI presented a set of proposals in early February 2026 which when taken together created major changes to the regulatory framework governing non-bank finance companies (NBFCs). The headline change is a proposed exemption from registration and scale based regulation for a defined class of low risk, "Type 1" NBFCs, but this relief is paired with sharper conduct standards on mis selling and a harmonised recovery agent framework across all lenders.

Despite the growing body of the academic discourse engaging with blockchain arbitration, the same remains largely theoretical, leaving several critical gaps between conceptual promise and practical implementation unaddressed.

Welcome to this edition of the Data Privacy, AI and Technology Newsletter. This issue provides a consolidated overview of significant regulatory, policy, and market developments across...

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.