Picture a 26-year-old delivery partner in Pune who pays for everything by UPI but has never opened a pension account because it sounded like forms, branch visits and an agent. From today, he can open one on his phone in three steps. Tatkal NPS, a quick way to open a National Pension System account, went…
Monday’s AMFI data, in one line: investors put a record ₹32,490 crore into mutual funds through SIPs in September 2026, even as the Sensex fell and the overall industry shrank. Equity funds took in a net ₹38,306.55 crore, a five-month high, while debt funds lost ₹1.83 lakh crore. Here is what the September SIP inflows…
Why should a 10-year government bond yield matter to someone with a home loan, an FD or a debt fund? Because it is the base price of long-term money in India. On Monday, 12 October, the 10-year bond yield rose to 7.39%, its highest since March 2023, The Economic Times reported, after touching 7.40% during…
A cricket star smiles from a billboard and says, “Invest with us.” From April 2027, an ad like that from a broker, mutual fund or investment adviser will need prior approval, and the star will not be allowed to praise a specific fund or product. SEBI has notified a Common Advertisement Code for the market…
5.54%. That is India’s CPI inflation for September 2026, as per the provisional figure MoSPI released at 4 PM on Monday, 12 October. It is up from 4.83% in August (now revised as final) and is higher than the roughly 5.4% we had worked out from the RBI’s forecast this morning. Food inflation jumped to…
Monday, 12 October 2026, 5 PM: The rupee closed at 95.75 against the US dollar (provisional), up 96 paise from Friday’s 96.71, PTI reported. That is the rupee’s steepest single-day gain in more than six months, and it came on the first trading day after the RBI’s weekend measures to cut dollar demand. Here is…
Which SEBI rules are coming next for traders and investors? SEBI’s chairman, Tuhin Kanta Pandey, gave a short list on Saturday 10 October. Rules on how the settlement price of derivatives is set on expiry day should come “in about a week”. Guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in markets will follow “shortly”….
Riya teaches English online to students in Japan and is paid in dollars every month. Since 1 October, her feed has been full of posts saying she must now file an “export declaration” for every invoice or risk her bank holding the money. Is that true? Mostly not, going by what RBI’s top officials said…
“The bank has been directed not to allow withdrawal of any amount from savings bank or current accounts or any other account of a depositor.” RBI used that sentence in two press releases on 8 October 2026: one for The Tiruvalla Urban Co-operative Bank Ltd. in Pathanamthitta district of Kerala, the other for Sri Mahatma…
Twenty-three companies lost their NBFC registration in two RBI lists published on 9 October 2026. RBI cancelled the Certificate of Registration (CoR) of 13 companies on its own. Another 10 surrendered theirs, and RBI then cancelled those too. Most are small companies registered in Kolkata, Chennai and Delhi; many have held their CoR since 1998–2004….