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India’s Outbound Investment Surge Comes Under RBI Lens as Rupee Pressures Intensify 01
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Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre and Reserve Bank Innovation Hub Join Hands to Deploy AI Against Mule Accounts and Digital Banking Fraud
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Third-Party Risk in the Age of SaaS: The Supplier You Don’t Know Can Hurt You Most
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When AI Starts Hunting Vulnerabilities: Why SEBI’s Latest Cyber Warning Matters Far Beyond IT Teams

Beyond Crisis Management: Why Scenario Planning Must Become a Regular Operating Discipline

The End of Predictability For decades, many companies treated uncertainty as an occasional disruption rather than a permanent business condition. Scenario planning therefore became an annual offsite exercise, a workshop dominated by PowerPoint presentations, hypothetical discussions and broad macroeconomic assumptions that rarely influenced day-to-day execution. In stable economic cycles, that approach appeared sufficient. In today’s…

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India’s Outbound Investment Surge Comes Under RBI Lens as Rupee Pressures Intensify

India’s overseas investment ambitions are increasingly colliding with a far more immediate macroeconomic concern: protecting the country’s external financial stability amid rising global uncertainty. The Reserve Bank of India’s foreign exchange department has reportedly begun intensifying scrutiny of overseas direct investments (ODI) by Indian corporates after outward investment outflows surged sharply to nearly $27 billion…

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The AI Governance Gap: Why “Using AI” Isn’t the Same as “Controlling AI”

Artificial intelligence has moved from experimentation to operational deployment at remarkable speed. Across industries, organisations are integrating AI into customer engagement, fraud detection, compliance workflows, underwriting, recruitment, analytics, cybersecurity, software development and strategic decision-making. In many boardrooms, the conversation has shifted from whether to adopt AI to how quickly deployment can scale. Yet beneath this…

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Cyber Resilience Is Now a CEO Metric, Not a CISO KPI

For years, cybersecurity was treated largely as a specialized technology responsibility delegated to IT teams and security leaders. Boards discussed it periodically. CEOs acknowledged it during crises. CISOs managed the operational complexity behind the scenes. As long as systems remained functional and major breaches stayed out of headlines, cyber risk often remained compartmentalized within technology…

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Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre and Reserve Bank Innovation Hub Join Hands to Deploy AI Against Mule Accounts and Digital Banking Fraud

India is stepping up its fight against rising cyber financial frauds with a new artificial intelligence-led initiative aimed at identifying and eliminating mule accounts across the banking ecosystem. The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), operating under the Ministry of Home Affairs, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH) to…

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Third-Party Risk in the Age of SaaS: The Supplier You Don’t Know Can Hurt You Most

Modern businesses increasingly resemble interconnected digital ecosystems rather than standalone enterprises. Cloud platforms manage customer data. External vendors process payroll. SaaS tools monitor productivity. Third-party APIs connect financial systems. Logistics partners integrate directly into operational workflows. Marketing agencies access customer databases. Cybersecurity vendors themselves depend on multiple subcontracted infrastructure providers. Yet despite this growing interdependence,…

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The DORA Effect: Why Indian Enterprises Need to Rethink Technology Risk

For years, cyber security discussions in boardrooms largely revolved around prevention. Build stronger perimeters. Invest in better firewalls. Detect breaches faster. Recover systems quickly. That framework is now evolving into something broader and far more consequential. The global conversation is increasingly shifting from cyber security towards digital operational resilience, the ability of an organisation not…

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IFFCO Tokio Elevates Milan Sanghvi and Neelakantan N as Executive Directors (Marketing)

IFFCO Tokio General Insurance Company Limited has announced the elevation of Mr. Milan Sanghvi and Mr. N. Neelakantan to the role of Executive Directors (Marketing), reinforcing its leadership bench at a time when the general insurance sector is witnessing rapid evolution in distribution and customer engagement. The appointments reflect the company’s strategic intent to deepen…

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When AI Starts Hunting Vulnerabilities: Why SEBI’s Latest Cyber Warning Matters Far Beyond IT Teams

For years, cybersecurity conversations in financial institutions largely revolved around firewalls, phishing attacks, ransomware incidents and periodic compliance audits. Those discussions still matter, but the latest advisory issued by the Securities and Exchange Board of India suggests something far bigger is unfolding beneath the surface. SEBI’s recent circular on emerging AI-driven vulnerability detection tools, including…

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