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(Feb 2025) Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority(IEPFA), established in

2016 under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, New Delhi

(Feb 2025) IEPFA signed an MoU with ________, a subsidiary of ____, to develop a digital program aimed at promoting financial literacy among school children.

Strategic Educational Professionals Pvt. Ltd. (a subsidiary of ACCA) - Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

(Apr 2025) Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority have signed Memorandum of Agreement to launch Phase 2 of the “Niveshak Didi” initiative

Indian Post Payments Bank(IPPB) - 4000 Financial Literacy Centers led by 40,000 women postal workers

(Apr 2025) IEPFA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with which bank to dissmeniate investor education content through the bank’s physical and digital plaftorms

Kotak Mahindra Bank

(Apr 2025) National Urban Co-operative Finance and Development Corporation(NUCFDC) has been recognized as an umbrella organization for Urban Co-operative banks by which Ministry

Ministry of Co-operation

(Apr 2025)NUCFDC received certificate of registration from RBI in____ to operate as a

Feb 2024, NBFC

(Apr 2025) For acheveing Self-regulatory organization status, NUCFDC is required to achieve _____ within in 1 year of registration

300 Crore paid-up capital

(Apr 2025) Fund-based services provided by NUCFDC includes:

Capital Support
Loans and Advances
Refinance facilities
Liquidity support against excess SLR through repo
Accepting depostis from UCBs

(Apr 2025) Non-fund based services by NUCFDC inlcudes:

IT infrastructure setup
Treasury and fund managment servies
Consultancy and R&D
Capacity Building through training and seminars

(Apr 2025) What is the Special postage stamp released on the occasion of 90th annivesary of the RBI is (Inscription ion post)

Stability.Trust.Growth

(Apr 2025) FIU-IND(Financial Intelligence Unit-India) with RBI signed a MoU for effective implentation of ____

Prevention of Money Laundering Act

(Apr 2025) FIU-IND is set up in

2004 as an independent body reports directly to Economic Intelligence Council headed by the Finance Minister

(Apr 2025) Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code has undergone 6 amendments and 122 regulatory reforms since its inception in 2016, A study by IIM Ahmedabad in 2023 gave key insights into the effect of IBC - Firms achieved an operating margin of ___ three years after resolution

4%

(Apr 2025) Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code has undergone 6 amendments and 122 regulatory reforms since its inception in 2016, A study by IIM Ahmedabad in 2023 gave key insights into the effect of IBC - ___ Increase in the average employee expeneses in the 3 years following resolution

50%

(Apr 2025) Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code has undergone 6 amendments and 122 regulatory reforms since its inception in 2016, A study by IIM Ahmedabad in 2023 gave key insights into the effect of IBC - Average growth in total assets is approximately ___

50% accompanied by a 130% increase in capital expenditure

(Apr 2025) Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code has undergone 6 amendments and 122 regulatory reforms since its inception in 2016, A study by IIM Ahmedabad in 2023 gave key insights into the effect of IBC - Market Valuation also increased from ____ to ______

2 crore to 6 crore

(Apr 2025) SEBI has set-up a high level committee to compreshensively evaluate its framework related to conflict of interest, disclosures and related obligations appliacable to its board memebrs and officials - Chaired by

Pratyush Sinha
(VC - Injeti Srinivas)

(Apr 2025) SEBI has doubled the threshold for mandatory disclosure of beneficial ownership by FPIs from _____ to _____

25,000 crore to 50,000 crores
Exemptions are :
FPIs with broad-based, pooled structure and diverisified investor base
That are govt. or govt. related investors

(Apr 2025) A record of ____ demat accounts were opened in FY 24-25 marking the highest ever annual addition in India’s capital markets

41.1 million

(Apr 2025) Eligibility criteria for PaRRVA (Past risk and return verification agency) -
For CRAs

15 years of experience
100 crores
proven history of rating atleast 250 of listed/proposed to-be-listed debi securites
ODR(Online Dispution Resolution) Mechanism

(Apr 2025) Eligibility criteria for PaRRVA (Past risk and return verification agency) -
For Stock Exchanges

15 years of existence
200 crore
ODR

(Apr 2025) SIF(Specialized Investment Funds) are allowed to offer 3 main types of strategies: For Equity Long-short funds -

Min. investment of 80%, with a short limit of 20%

(Apr 2025) SIF(Specialized Investment Funds) are allowed to offer 3 main types of strategies: For Equity Ex-Top 100 Long-short funds -

Equity exposure of 65%

(Apr 2025) SIF(Specialized Investment Funds) are allowed to offer 3 main types of strategies: For Equity Long-short funds - The sector rotation long-short fund -

upto 4 sectors

(Apr 2025) SIF(Specialized Investment Funds) are allowed to offer 3 main types of strategies: For Sectoral Debt Long-short funds -

If 2 or more sectors with a limit of 75% exposure per sector

(Apr 2025) SIF(Specialized Investment Funds) are allowed to offer 3 main types of strategies: For Hybrid Long-short funds -

25% each of debt and equity

(Apr 2025)SEBI directed all regulated entities to exclusively use the ‘____’ phone number series for service and transactional voice calls to enhance investor protection and curb financial fraud

1600
(Collaborating with TRAI)

(Apr 2025) BSE is established in

1875
(Celebrating it’s 150^th Anniversary in 2025 (July 9) —→ BSE 150 (Top 150 Listed Companies) by Finance minister))

(Apr 2025) SEBI has allowed company insiders and their close relatives to use an automated trading system for planned share transactions, aiming to simplify compliance while preventing insider trading in Two phases - First phase begins on

July 1, 2025 and applies to top 500-listed companies on Market Capitalization

(Apr 2025) SEBI has allowed company insiders and their close relatives to use an automated trading system for planned share transactions, aiming to simplify compliance while preventing insider trading in Two phases - Second phase begins on

October 1, 2025, will cover all the remaining lsited companies

(Apr 2025) Mutual Fund Overnight Schemes announced by the SEBI is effective from ____

June 1

(Apr 2025) SEBI has directed brokers to collect all margins, except for Value at Risk(VaR) and Extreme Loss Margin(ELM) by the ______

T+1 settlement day

(Apr 2025) UCBs will transtition from RBI’s Supervisory Action Framework to the PCA(Prompt Corrective Action), what are the key monitoring areas for UCBs under PCA includes

Capital
Asset Quality
Profitability (As opposed to Leverage for SCBs)

(Apr 2025) Under PCA, if the net NPA of UCB exceeds 6% of net advances:

The bank must raise additional capital
Restricted from declaring or paying dividends

(Apr 2025)Finance Minsitry has set a target of _____ for MSME Credit outstanding in Public Sector Banks for the FY 25-26, a projected increase from ____ in FY25

17.31 trillion from 14.49 trillion

(Apr 2025) As of Feb 2025, PSB’s MSME credit outstanding stood at 13.04 trillion, with SBI leading with a target of ____

4.82 trillion for FY26

(Apr 2025) GNPA ratio in the MSME in FY 24 is

4%

(Apr 2025) Government has announced to implement “One State, One RRB” policy for the conslidation of RRBs under the RRB, act 1976, this new policy will take effect from ___

May 1, 2025

(Apr 2025) RRBs in this 11 states are to be merged into one entity

Andhra Pradesh, UP, MP, WB, Bihar, Gujarat, J&K, Karnataka, Odisha, Rajasthan, Maharashtra
All entities would have authorised capital of 2,000 crore

(Apr 2025) Post-amalgamation there will be ___ RRBs in 26states and 2UTs

28
[RRBs —> Centre(50), Sponsor Banks(35), State(15)]

(Apr 2025) Which application in partnership with NPCI BHIM Services Ltd. and ___Bank, launched the Turbo UPI plugin on the BHIM Vega Platform

Razorpay, Axis Bank

(Apr 2025) BharatPe has received final approval from the RBI to operate as an online aggregator thrugh its subsidary, _____

Resilient Payments Pvt. Ltd.

(Apr 2025) BharatPe rolls out ____ to provide enhanced digital payment services, focusing on merchants in tier-2, tier-3 cities

BharatPe X

(Apr 2025) NaBFID is set to raise ____ through bond sales, marking its first ever issuance of five year bonds aiming to diversify its funding sources

8000 crore

(Apr 2025) The NaBFID 5-year bonds are rated

AAA by ICRA and CRISIL

(Apr 2025) NaBFID has signed MoU with ____ to enhance infrastructure, focusing on clean energy and transportation projects

New Development Bank

(Apr 2025) India and the UK have agreed to collaborate on the internationalisation of the Indian Rupee, formalised cooperation between ____

The Financial Conduct Authority and the International Financial Services Authority through an exchange of letters
[British International Investment (BII) has set target to invest $1 billion in climate projects in India by 2026]

(May 2025) Pass through Certificates were listed on NSE, which are structured by

National Housing Bank - promoted RMBS development Company Ltd.(RDCL) and are backed by a pool of housing loans originated by LIC housing finance ltd.

(May 2025) PTCs isssue amounted to

1,000 Crore with a coupon of 7.26% per annum and maturity of 20 years

(May 2025) RDCL is established by NHB. What is the paid-up capital of NDCL

500 Crore

(May 2025) IEPFA and ______ collaborating to launch “Niveshak Shivir”, an inititative to simplify reclaiming unclaimed dividends and shares of investors.

SEBI

(May 2025) Financial Fraud Risk Indicator by

Depratment of Telecommunications

(May 2025) SEBI has mandated the use of Electronic Book Provider(EBP) platfrom for all private placements of debt securities of ___ and above

20 Crore (Earlier for debt issue of 50 crore or more)

(May 2025) SEBI has mandated the use of Electronic Book Provider(EBP) platfrom for all private placements of debt securities include -

Debt securities
Non-convertible redeemable preference shares
Municipal Bonda

(May 2025) Issuers may opt to use the EBP platform for :

Securitized debt instruments
Security recepits
Commercial Paper
Certificate of Deposit
REITs
InvITs

(May 2025) Based on the credit rating, a portion may be reserved to anchor investment: - AAA/AA/….[EBP]

Max. of 30%

(May 2025) Based on the credit rating, a portion may be reserved to anchor investment: - A+/A- [EBP]

Max. of 40%

(May 2025) Based on the credit rating, a portion may be reserved to anchor investment: - Others [EBP]

Max. of 50%

(May 2025) Issuers are required to submit the placement memorandum and term sheet, containing key terms and condtiions, at least _____ working days before the issue opens, or _____ working days incase of first-time users of the EBP.

2, 3

(May 2025) SEBI had extended complaince timeline for granular disclosure reuqirements by ODI subscribers from ______ to ______

May 17, 2025 to Nov 17, 2025

(May 2025) The ODI disclosure rules will apply to

ODI Subscribers holding more than 50% of their equity ODI positions in a single Indian Corporate group

ODI subscribers with equity positions exceeding 25,000 crore in Indian Markets

(May 2025) ODI - SEBI prohibits FPIs from

Issuing ODIs with derivatives as the underlying
Using derivatives to hedge ODI positions in India

(May 2025) Securitised Debt Instruments(SDI)s, SEBI has introduced new regulations - Minimum ticket size is

1 Crore

(May 2025) Securitised Debt Instruments(SDI)s, SEBI has introduced new regulations - Public offers for SDIs, the sale has to open for

2 - 10 days

(May 2025) Securitised Debt Instruments(SDI)s, SEBI has introduced new regulations - SDIs must have operating experience of

3 years

(May 2025) Securitised Debt Instruments(SDI)s, SEBI has introduced new regulations - The companies must keep some of the money in the product that is the money is paid back within 2 years

5% (If not 10%)

(May 2025) Securitised Debt Instruments(SDI)s, SEBI has introduced new regulations - Minimum holding period for orginators(promoters) -

3 months (upto 2years)
6 months (Beyond 2 years)

(May 2025) AIF - Alternative Investment Fund - Min. investment for investors is

1 Crore

(May 2025) AIF - Min. investment for directors, employees, fund thresholds -

25 Lakhs

(May 2025) AIF - MIn. lock-in period of

3 years

(May 2025) AIF - The number of investors in every scheme is restricted to

1000 (Angel funds - 49)

(May 2025) SEBI has introduced a new delta based Open Interest calculation method and revised postion limits in the F&O market - Market Wide Position Limit

Will be set as lower of 15% of free float or 65 x the average daily delivery value across cleraing corporations, with min. floor of 10% of free float

[Oct 1, 2025] - Risk Reduction Trades During Ban Period and MWPL

(May 2025) SEBI has introduced a new delta based Open Interest calculation method and revised postion limits in the F&O market - Intraday checks will be done by Clearing Corporations

At a frequency of at least 4 random checks

[Nov 3, 2025]

SEBI has introduced a new delta based Open Interest calculation method and revised postion limits in the F&O market - Index Options - Net end-of-day FutEq OI limit is

1,500 crore

SEBI has introduced a new delta based Open Interest calculation method and revised postion limits in the F&O market - Index Options - Gross limit (long or short)

10,000 crore

SEBI has introduced a new delta based Open Interest calculation method and revised postion limits in the F&O market - Index Futures - Category-1 FPIs, mutual funs, and proprietary brokers -

Higer of 500 crore or 15% of futures OI

SEBI has introduced a new delta based Open Interest calculation method and revised postion limits in the F&O market - Index Futures - Other FPIs

Higher of 500 crore or 5% of futures OI

(May 2025) The Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association(IVCA) has urged all legacy Venture Capital Funds(VCF) to migrate to the Alternate Investment Fund (AIF) regime as per SEBI’s circular before the deadline of _____

July 19, 2025

(May 2025) IVCA is established in

1993

(May 2025) Custodian of IVCA’s trust held shares

Vistara ITCL (India) Limited

(May 2025) 12 PSBs reported a record profit of __ in FY 25, marking a __ growth over the FY24

1.75 Lakh Crores, 26%
[SBI - contributed over 40% of the total profit]

(May 2025) RBI has launched 3 important surveys

Inflation Expectations Survey of Households
Urban Consumer Confidence Survey
Rural Consumer Confidence Survey

(May 2025) RBI has officially notified to form a 6 member PRB(Payment Regulatory Board) - New structure includes

Chair person - RBI governor
Members
RBI deputy governor(Department of Payment and Supervision)
One RBI Official nominated by the Central Board
3 nominees of the Central Govt.

(May 2025) RBI has officially notified to form a 6 member PRB(Payment Regulatory Board) - Permanent membet is

Principal Legal Advisor of RBI

(May 2025) RBI has officially notified to form a 6 member PRB(Payment Regulatory Board) - The Board must meet ___

Twice a year

(May 2025) RBI has officially notified to form a 6 member PRB(Payment Regulatory Board) - Eligibility criteria for PRB members exclude

Individuals above 70 years of age
MPs or State legislators
Persons with material conflicts of interest in the payment sector