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RBI Sets Up Q-SAFE Committee to Examine Quantum Risks and Financial-System Preparedness
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India’s Outbound Investment Surge Comes Under RBI Lens as Rupee Pressures Intensify
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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

SEBI Eyes Massive Bond Market Expansion With Tokenised Bonds and Retail Push

India’s market regulator is preparing a broad push to deepen the country’s corporate bond market, with reforms spanning retail participation, market liquidity, municipal debt financing and tokenised corporate bonds emerging as key focus areas in the next phase of debt-market development. Speaking at the CareEdge Debt Summit on Tuesday, the SEBI Chairman Mr. Tuhin Kanta…

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RBI’s Dollar Swap Signal: How India’s Central Bank Used Liquidity Strategy to Defend Stability

At a time when the Indian rupee was approaching psychologically sensitive lows and global uncertainty was intensifying, the Reserve Bank of India’s USD 5 billion USD/INR buy-sell swap auction on 26 May 2026 emerged as far more than a routine foreign exchange operation. It was a calibrated macro-financial intervention designed to achieve multiple objectives simultaneously:…

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RBI Sets Up Q-SAFE Committee to Examine Quantum Risks and Financial-System Preparedness

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has constituted an Expert Committee for a Quantum Secure and Adaptive Financial Ecosystem (Q-SAFE) as the central bank begins evaluating the long-term implications of quantum computing on India’s financial infrastructure, cybersecurity frameworks and digital resilience. The move comes amid growing global concern over the potential impact of quantum technologies…

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Why Cybersecurity Is Now a Trust Function: Ratan Jyoti on Banking’s Digital Risk Evolution

As cyber threats become more intelligent, interconnected and psychologically sophisticated, the future of banking security will increasingly depend on resilience rather than perimeter defence alone.  In the concluding part of this exclusive CXO Dialogue interview with Risk Awareness, Ratan Jyoti shares his perspectives on AI-driven cyber risks, ransomware preparedness, organisational security culture and the emerging…

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The End of Periodic Assurance: Why Continuous Controls Monitoring Is Reshaping Enterprise Risk

For decades, organisations approached controls and compliance through periodic cycles. Quarterly reviews, annual audits and scheduled testing exercises formed the backbone of assurance frameworks across industries. Risks were assessed retrospectively, evidence was gathered manually and control gaps were often identified weeks, sometimes months after operational failures had already emerged. In slower-moving business environments, that model…

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The New Geography of Risk: Why Businesses Need a Real-Time Country Risk Dashboard

For decades, geopolitical risk occupied the periphery of corporate strategy. It was discussed occasionally in relation to oil prices, elections or major conflicts, but rarely treated as a core operating variable for day-to-day business decisions. Most companies assumed that globalisation would continue deepening, supply chains would remain broadly stable and trade integration would steadily outweigh…

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The Speed of Money: What the Global Banking Stress Cycle Revealed About Modern Liquidity Risk

For years after the global financial crisis, liquidity regulation became one of the defining pillars of banking resilience. Regulatory reforms strengthened capital buffers, introduced liquidity coverage ratios and pushed banks globally towards more conservative funding structures. Many institutions entered the post-pandemic period believing that liquidity frameworks were materially stronger than they had been a decade…

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The Resilience Mandate: Ratan Jyoti on Cyber Risk, AI Threats and the Future of Banking Security

As India’s banking ecosystem accelerates towards a deeply digital future, cybersecurity is rapidly evolving from a technology function into a boardroom-level resilience imperative.  In the first part of this exclusive CXO Dialogue interview with Risk Awareness, Ratan Jyoti, Chief Information Security Officer, Head of Technology Risk Management, and Data Protection of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank…

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The CRO Beyond Compliance: Why Risk Literacy Is Becoming Corporate Survival Infrastructure

For years, the role of the Chief Risk Officer was largely associated with financial stability, regulatory oversight and governance discipline. In banks, insurers and financial institutions, the CRO was often viewed as the executive responsible for credit exposure, capital adequacy, market volatility and compliance frameworks. Even outside financial services, risk leadership frequently revolved around audit…

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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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