Tag: RBI
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Use Cases of a Digital Rupee to the Average Household and Business in India
[Posted by Bhargavi Zaveri]
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Analyzing the Fintech Implications of RBI’s Mandate for Interoperability
[Akshay Luhadia and Rohit Gupta are 3rd year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) students at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata] On April 7, 2021, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (‘RBI’) announced significant changes in the policies regulating the operation of prepaid payment instruments (‘PPIs’) in India. According to the guidelines under…
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FIU’s Penalty on PayPal: Should Payment Gateways be Subject to Anti-Money Laundering Law?
[Posted by Bhargavi Zaveri] Recently, the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) penalized PayPal to the tune of Rs. 9 million for not registering itself as a ‘payment system operator’ under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA), India’s anti-money laundering (AML) law. PayPal appealed against the FIU’s order before the Delhi High Court. In January…