August, 2026 Newsletter

📢 Compliance Newsletter – August, 2026 Edition is here!

Delighted to share our latest edition covering the key regulatory developments across MCA, RBI, SEBI and the Stock Exchanges during August, 2026.

Some highlights this month:

🔹 𝐌𝐂𝐀 sees Parliament pass the MSME Development (Amendment) Act, 2026 - decriminalising several offences and mandating CPSEs to route MSME payments through TReDS - while CCFS, 2026 gets a further extension to September 15, 2026

🔹 𝐑𝐁𝐈 holds the repo rate steady at 5.25% for a fourth consecutive review, issues fresh conduct norms for loan recovery and recovery agents effective January 2027, releases its updated NBFC Upper Layer list, and expands large exposure headroom for Infrastructure Debt Fund-NBFCs

🔹 𝐒𝐄𝐁𝐈 eases the Online Bond Platform Provider framework, gives InvITs flexibility on debt-funded road maintenance in NDCF computation, enables digital POAs for FPIs and KRA data-sharing with IFSCA entities, and floats a major overhaul of its Settlement Regulations to make settlement amounts more predictable

🔹 𝐄𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 & 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐲: SEBI's ex-parte order curbing manipulative trades during the new Closing Auction Session on BSE, SAT's ruling that a SEBI settlement doesn't bar a stock exchange from imposing its own fine (Hindustan Foods v. BSE), and a landmark Supreme Court ruling that mere possession of UPSI coupled with trading is enough to attract the presumption of insider trading, regardless of the purpose behind the trade

A month that reinforces India's continuing push on ease of doing business alongside sharper enforcement of governance and market-conduct norms.

Do read the full newsletter attached, and as always, we welcome your feedback at sandeeplakhotia2013@gmail.com.

Thank you.

Sandeep Lakhotia

FCS, FCA

Practicing Company Secretary I 28+ years advising boards, promoters, CFOs and compliance teams on regulatory matters

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