Experts discuss regulatory fragmentation, rapid travel rule adoption, and good compliance practices for VASPs.
July 29, 2021The action may hamper the ability of private banks to issue new cards to customers in the near term due to their exclusive tie-ups with Mastercard.
July 15, 2021American Express and Diners Club were found to be non-compliant with the RBI's 2018 directions requiring payment system data to be stored onshore.
April 26, 2021Illegal short sellers can face fines of up to 100% of the amount of the short selling order, imprisonment for a year or more, and additional penalties up to five times unfair profits.
April 7, 2021Varying regulatory approaches across jurisdictions pose significant challenges to FIs trying to implement the public cloud as part of their global strategy.
March 2, 2021While the SFC's new FAQs on the use of cloud storage make compliance more manageable, licensed corporations still need to weigh their options, says Derek McGibney at Cognitive GRC.
December 11, 2020The SFC will accept an undertaking from core function MICs as an alternative means of satisfying the requirement for a countersigned notice or undertaking from an EDSP.
December 10, 2020The approval comes two and a half years after WhatsApp launched in beta mode, but was then forced to comply with India's data localisation requirements.
November 9, 2020The deferred initiatives relate to new requirements on external data storage, client asset protection, and brokers' systems for maintaining order life cycle data.
April 1, 2020Industry bodies are reportedly working with the SFC to clarify the rules and make compliance easier, though it is unclear what specific steps it will take to ease the requirements.
March 11, 2020