Financial Services

353 briefs

MAS ·

MAS sets 15 June 2026 start for revised Single Family Office licensing-exemption framework

Single Family Offices in Singapore must notify MAS, hold a MAS-licensed bank account and file an annual AUM return to use the class licensing exemption

RBI ·

RBI penalises Repco Home Finance over Fair Practice Code interest-rate disclosure

HFC and NBFC compliance teams must disclose their risk-gradation approach and interest-rate rationale in application forms and sanction letters

RBI ·

RBI penalises IIFL Samasta over KYC suspicious-transaction software and fraud-reporting gaps

NBFC FinCrime and financial-reporting teams must check their suspicious-transaction detection software and fraud-disclosure accuracy against the gaps RBI penalised

SEBI ·

SEBI extends Merchant Banker compliance deadlines for SBU transfer and net-worth requirements

Registered Merchant Bankers must meet revised SEBI compliance deadlines, with SBU transfer and Clause 11.2.10 compliance now due 31 December 2026 and net-worth phases aligned to financial year-ends

OFAC ·

OFAC designates Cuba's CUPET and a Russia-linked metals-payments network on the SDN List

Sanctions-screening teams must block transactions involving Cuba's CUPET and the newly designated Russia-linked parties, catch both the RAYKES/RAIKES spellings, and escalate Sberbank and VEND ORE control links