6+ hour, 46+ min ago   (269+ words) Whalesbook Union Minister of Power and Housing and Urban Affairs, Manohar Lal, is leading the Indian delegation at the G20 Energy Ministerial Meeting in Houston, taking place from September 14 to 16, 2026 This summit brings together global leaders to navigate a difficult period…...

4+ hour, 2+ min ago   (253+ words) Whalesbook Indian lenders are in talks with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to address a significant backlog of unsettled cross-border trade transactions The total value of these outstanding entries is estimated at approximately ₹1 lakh crore, with many of…...

20+ hour, 59+ min ago   (248+ words) Whalesbook The Gujarat Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR) has issued a significant clarification regarding tax compliance for high-value defense procurement The regulator determined that Airbus is required to obtain GST registration in Gujarat for the supply of 40 C-295MW transport aircraft to…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (328+ words) Whalesbook At the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai on September 10, 2026, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Sanjay Malhotra issued a clear directive to the fintech industry: customer data should be treated as something held in trust, rather than a commodity…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (298+ words) Whalesbook India’s major stock exchanges—the National Stock Exchange (NSE), BSE, Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX), and the Metropolitan Stock Exchange of India (MSEI)—are recalibrating their strategic priorities At the Global Fintech Fest 2026 in Mumbai, the…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (269+ words) Whalesbook At the Global Fintech Fest 2026, NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Dr Ashok Kumar Lahiri emphasized that India must leverage digital financial tools to address a major bottleneck in the economy: the limited availability of credit for smaller businesses Currently, India’s…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (333+ words) Whalesbook The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has introduced the Foreign Assets of Small Taxpayers-Disclosure Scheme (FAST-DS), a voluntary compliance window designed for resident taxpayers to regularize previously unreported offshore financial assets The scheme, which became operational in August…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (310+ words) whalesbook.com NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL), a subsidiary of the National Payments Corporation of India, has launched a strategic partnership with Singapore-based payment institution FOMO Pay This collaboration enables the use of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) at merchant…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (247+ words) whalesbook.com State Bank of India (SBI) has updated its policy for Salary Package Account holders regarding ATM and Automated Deposit cum Withdrawal Machine (ADWM) usage at other banks Effective October 1, 2026, the number of free monthly transactions at non-SBI machines…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (244+ words) whalesbook.com On September 9, 2026, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) intervened in the foreign exchange market to manage the massive amount of extra cash circulating in the banking system The central bank employed a "sell-buy swap" mechanism to address this…...