MuleHunter.ai: RBI’s AI Fraud Detection System Now Live Across 31 Banks

MuleHunter.ai: RBI's AI Fraud Detection System

The Reserve Bank of India, working alongside state level authorities such as the Haryana government’s State Level Coordination Committee, is pushing a coordinated response to evolving financial fraud, combining artificial intelligence based detection, upgraded public complaint infrastructure, and expanded financial Read More …

The changing hue of Climate Risk – The Need for a Holistic Risk Literacy Framework

South Asia continues to grapple with the growing vagaries of extreme climate risks, leaving millions increasingly exposed to recurrent, devastating disasters. Communities across the region continue to confront these uncertainties, often with limited capacity and resources for recovery. The recent Read More …

SEBI Aligns Cyber Incident Reporting with FIRE: What Entities Must Review

SEBI Aligns Cyber Incident Reporting with FIRE

On August 24, 2026, SEBI issued a circular aligning its Cyber Incident Reporting Portal with the Financial Stability Board’s Format for Incident Reporting Exchange, commonly referred to as FIRE. This follows closely on the launch of SEBI’s revamped Incident Reporting Read More …

How BFSI Institutions Can Conduct a Risk Training Needs Assessment

How BFSI Institutions Can Conduct a Risk Training Needs Assessment

Most BFSI institutions run risk training every year, yet many struggle to answer a simple question, is this training actually closing the capability gaps that matter most to the institution right now. Training calendars are often built around what was Read More …

RBI Compliance for NBFCs: Regulations and Updates 2026

RBI Compliance for NBFCs: Regulations and Updates 2026

2026 has been an unusually dense year for NBFC regulation. RBI has reworked how NBFCs are registered and classified, revised concentration and credit facility norms, issued a consolidated recovery conduct framework, extended board level cybersecurity accountability to NBFCs, and set Read More …

Seven Risk Capabilities BFSI Institutions Must Strengthen

Seven Risk Capabilities BFSI Institutions Must Strengthen

India’s banking, financial services, and insurance sector is operating under a pace of regulatory and technological change that few institutions were built to absorb comfortably. RBI has reworked concentration risk, credit facilities, fraud risk, and loan recovery frameworks within a Read More …

SEBI’s IT Resilience Index for MIIs: What It Means for Cyber Governance

SEBI's IT Resilience Index for MIIs

On August 24, 2026, SEBI issued a circular introducing the IT Resilience Index, or ITRI, for Market Infrastructure Institutions, covering stock exchanges, clearing corporations, and depositories. The same week saw two related developments that together signal a decisive shift in Read More …

Explainability Risk: What Happens When a Bank Cannot Explain an AI Decision

Explainability Risk

A customer is denied a loan. A transaction is flagged and frozen for suspected fraud. A credit card application is silently declined. In each of these cases, the decision was made, at least in part, by an AI system, and Read More …

AI Vendors and Third Party Risk: Questions Banks Should Ask Before Deployment

AI Vendors and Third Party Risk: Questions Banks Should Ask Before Deployment

Very few banks build their AI systems entirely in house. Credit scoring engines, fraud detection platforms, chatbots, document processing tools, and collections analytics increasingly arrive through a vendor relationship, whether a specialised fintech, a large technology provider, or a niche Read More …

Target Services Outage Case Study

TARGET Services Outage Case Study

On 27 February 2025, TARGET Services suffered a major operational incident affecting the infrastructure through which central-bank money, securities and collateral move across Europe. TARGET Services comprise: T2, which processes high-value euro payments; TARGET2-Securities, which provides securities settlement; TARGET Instant Read More …