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Regulation & Compliance Radar — Weekly Roundup

SEBI, RBI, IRDAI, UIDAI: What changed, who is impacted, and the actions to calendar.
By bataSutra Editorial · October 17, 2025
In this piece:
  • The short — five-line brief
  • SEBI: primary, market infra, intermediaries
  • RBI: payments, credit, prudential
  • IRDAI: distribution & product filing
  • UIDAI: KYC & offline flows
  • Compliance calendar (next 14 days)
  • Team checklists

The short

  • Primary window: Faster observation cycles sustained; price-band disciplines emphasized.
  • Payments risk: Reminders on wallet/KYC hygiene and reconciliation timelines.
  • Distribution: Insurers guided on simplified rider filings with clearer benefit illustrations.
  • KYC: Aadhaar offline flows reiterated for low-friction onboarding where permitted.
  • Prudential: Lenders nudged to granular stress-data capture in retail buckets.

SEBI — what matters this week

Primary markets

  • Observation cadence: keep metric glossaries (LTV/CAC, CM2, take-rate) consistent across DRHP, RHP, and roadshow decks.
  • Anchor notes: float design & lock-in dispersion to be front-loaded in investor education.

Market infrastructure

  • Operational resilience drills: ensure incident runbooks & RTO/RPO evidence are up-to-date.
  • Algo hygiene: strategy IDs and kill-switch attestations refreshed quarterly.

Intermediaries

  • RA/IA deposits: segregated accounts and investor-money flow trails to be auditable at short notice.
  • Research disclosures: model-risk, conflict matrices, and backtests with parameter stability.

RBI — payments, credit, prudential

Payments & PPI

  • Wallet KYC refresh windows: nudge flows; dormant-to-active rules in app UX.
  • Settlement timelines: T+1 reconciliations & exception reporting dashboards.

Credit & collections

  • Digital lending stacks: consent artifacts, data-minimization, model explainability notes.
  • Collections codes: call-time windows, language flags, and GPS metadata suppression by default.

Prudential nudges

  • Retail stress capture: ageing buckets aligned to board-approved policies.
  • Liquidity buffers: internal stress ladders for top-20 counterparties.

IRDAI — distribution & product filing

  • POS & online distribution: co-brand rules, cross-sell guardrails, and grievance TATs emphasized.
  • Product filing: simplified riders with standardized benefit illustrations; disclosure of surrender-value ladders.

UIDAI — KYC & offline flows

  • Offline Aadhaar XML/secure QR onboarding: retain tokenized artifacts; purge raw identifiers from logs.
  • KYX orchestration: add exception paths for non-Aadhaar documents without drop-offs.

Compliance calendar — next 14 days (illustrative)

WhenItemOwnerArtifactStatus
Mon (T+3)PPI reconciliation & exception reportPayments OpsRecon pack + sign-offsPlanned
TueBroker algo kill-switch drillTrading TechDrill log + post-mortemQueued
WedInsurance BI template updateProduct/ActuarialRevised BI PDFsDraft
FriKYC retention & purge checkInfosecPurge logs + attestationPlanned
Next MonDRHP metrics glossary lockIR/LegalOne-pager + data mapIn progress

Team checklists

Controls

  • Map every retail touchpoint to consent artifacts; screenshot evidence.
  • Centralize exception dashboards; define “page within a page” alerts.

Disclosures

  • One metric glossary across filings, press, and roadshows.
  • Backtest windows ≥ 3 years; show parameter stability bands.

Governance

  • Quarterly board note: incidents, drills, open risks, and mitigations.
  • Vendor register: data-sharing scope & exit runbooks.