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Non-inflationary Budget for Monetary Easing: Finance Secy
"The fiscal policy and the monetary policy need to work in tandem,...
DPDP rules,2025: Enforcing stringent requirements for data collection, processing and management
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Global financial regulators attempt to align rules on climate risks
The Financial Stability Board (FSB), which coordinates financial rules for the G20 group of nations, said its “roadmap” seeks to coordinate approaches to disclosures by companies and plug gaps in the data needed to spot financial stability “vulnerabilities” and develop tools to address them.
The roadmap attempts to align rules still in the planning stage between now and 2023 to avoid more divergences between various measures for the same activity.
HC issues notices to Centre, Maha over PIL claiming Truecaller breached data privacy norms
“The Truecaller app collects data of all users. It shares such data with some of its partners without the consent of users, and dumps the liability on the user,” the petitioner told the court.
“This is a manipulative set up because the user has no choice. The app also registers users for a Unified Payments Interface service without their consent, or without due process,” alleged Shashank Posture who had filed the PIL.
Covid-19: IRDAI penalises Salasar Services Insurance Brokers Rs 8 lakh for misleading its customers on BI claims
The information brochure by Salasar Services Insurance Brokers clearly advised its clients, to lodge the business interruption claim and also stated that insurer prima facie may deny the claim which can be contested later.
This statement may give a hope to the clients that the denial of claim can be successfully contested at a later date. This is a wrong and misleading advice and the broker, being a professional should not issue such a misleading advice to their clients, said the IRDAI..
Stock exchanges, other officials liable to face penalties for tech glitches: Sebi
Stock exchanges, clearing corporation and depositories will have to pay in the range of Rs 1 lakh each working day to Rs 2 crore for flouting Standard Operating Procedure while Managing Director (MD) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the MIIs concerned will have to cough up 10 per cent of their respective annual pay.
To avoid technical glitches, Sebi has suggested that MIIs should have Business Continuity Planning, disaster recovery policies and system audit processes in place.
Amazon, Tata say Indian govt e-commerce rules will hit businesses: Report
New rules limiting flash sales, barring misleading advertisements and mandating a complaints system, among other proposals, could force the likes of Amazon and Flipkart to review their business structures, and may increase costs for domestic rivals including Reliance Industries’ JioMart, BigBasket and Snapdeal.
Cyber laws, rules, and guidance must be workable, risk-based, clear, transparent, and consistently applied across companies and jurisdictions:US Insurers
Insurance is an important economic recovery resource for victims of ransomware attacks. Prohibitions on the reimbursement of legal ransom payments presents potential unintended consequence such as eliminating a meaningful risk management resource.
Insurance policy and underwriting activities should not be misconstrued as cybersecurity risk assessments, which provide the insured with confidence that their security measures are sufficient to avoid or eliminate ransomware attacks.
Insurance is an important economic recovery resource for victims of ransomware attacks. Prohibitions on the reimbursement of legal ransom payments presents potential unintended consequence such as eliminating a meaningful risk management resource.
Like a customer’s decision on how to manage cyber risk, insurers must also be able to determine their risk appetite through careful underwriting and appropriate coverage offerings.
NPPA approves price rise of 50 per cent for carbamazepine, ranitidine, ibuprofen
To address the situation arising due to repeated price control, a one-time price increase of 50 per cent from the current ceiling price is being considered in public interest as an exceptional measure as advised by the Standing Committee on Affordable Medicines and Health Products (SCAMHP), NPPA said
New report outlines roadmap to deepen UK-India capital markets link
“Well functioning public markets underpin growth, innovation, job creation and the transition to a low carbon economy,” said Shrey Kohli, Director, Head of Debt Capital Markets, London Stock Exchange.
Emerging Asia: a $3.8 trillion-per-year pension savings gap
“The shortfall in saving for adequate and sustainable retirements cannot be bridged solely by government resources. Strong partnership between the state, the private sector and individuals will be key.Protecting people throughout their saving lifecycle has the potential to reduce poverty, ill-health and even social unrest, and should form a core building block of emerging markets’ longterm economic growth,” ,” said Jerome Jean Haegeli,Group Chief Economist, Swiss Re
LIC’s mega IPO gains momentum, Govt notifies amendments in LIC Act
According to one of the 27 proposed amendments, the central government will hold at least 75 per cent in LIC for the first five years post the IPO, and subsequently hold at least 51 per cent at all times after five years of the listing.
But from today, the policy holders will get 90 per cent of surplus generated by the corporation while the rest as dividends will go to the government and other shareholders who will be investing in the LIC through its Initial Public Offering(IPO).