Compliance Newsletter, September 2026: Subscriber Edition

Eighteen regulatory updates and five significant pronouncements from September 2026, with the regulator's own text and a practical takeaway on each.

September 2026 was a month in which the regulators tightened the frame around both insolvency and disclosure. The IBBI directed insolvency professionals to watch for misuse of the Code, the interim moratorium for personal guarantors came to an end, a new export realisation framework took effect from 1 October, and the SEBI Board approved new settlement and portfolio management regulations.

This issue records every development notified during the month by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, the Reserve Bank of India, the Securities and Exchange Board of India and the Stock Exchanges. It also covers five pronouncements of the Supreme Court and SEBI.

In this issue

• 18 regulatory updates, each with its instrument, reference number, date and a link to the official source

• 5 significant pronouncements, each set out as Key Issue, Facts, Analysis and Findings, Final Order and Ratio

• 6 items flagged for Board attention

• An executive summary of the month at a glance

• Dates to diarise through March 2027

• Six noteworthy Regulation 30 disclosures, including a Chairman's resignation over a board evaluation and the company's rebuttal of its NRC Chair's resignation letter

Among the questions answered

• Can an Audit Committee approve a related party transaction after the money has gone out?

• Do business ties alone make an investor "controlled" by a promoter?

• How far can a court-ordered forensic audit reach into a lender's books?

• What changes for exporters from 1 October 2026?

Who it is for: promoters, directors, KMPs, company secretaries, CFOs and compliance teams of listed and unlisted companies.

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