CashlessConsumer · a sousveillance project
The watchers,
watched.
RegTrac tracks the statutory regulators of India's financial sector — their statutes, powers, leadership appointments, grievance machinery and accountability gaps. Surveillance is watching citizens; sousveillance is citizens watching back.
13entities tracked
7statutory regulators
18appointments logged
44timeline events
Register — statutory regulators
| Name | Statute | Est. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| RBI | Reserve Bank of India | Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (operational 1 Apr 1935) | 1935 |
| SEBI | Securities and Exchange Board of India | SEBI Act, 1992 (statutory; existed as non-statutory body since 1988) | 1988 |
| IRDAI | Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India | IRDA Act, 1999 | 1999 |
| PFRDA | Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority | PFRDA Act, 2013 (statutory w.e.f. 1 Feb 2014; interim body since 2003) | 2003 |
| IBBI | Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India | Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (Board constituted 1 Oct 2016) | 2016 |
| IFSCA | International Financial Services Centres Authority | IFSCA Act, 2019 (operational 1 Oct 2020) | 2020 |
| NABARD | National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development | NABARD Act, 1981 (established 12 Jul 1982) | 1982 |
Full register — including adjacent statutory bodies and non-statutory context →
Recent
- Reform 2026-11-05 — RBI consolidates cyber resilience and digital payment security rules for non-bank Payment System Operators into one Master Direction (RBI/DPSS/2026-27/475); large and medium PSOs comply from issuance, small PSOs from 1 April 2028; six-hour incident reporting to RBI and CERT-In
- Register note 2026-10-29 — Supreme Court (In Re Victims of Digital Arrest Related To Forged Documents, SMW(Crl) 3/2025): RBI KYC Amendment Directions 2026 to be notified by 30 Nov 2026 and operationalised by 31 Dec 2026; directions must mandate compensation not less than the amount lost where an institution's due diligence failed; RBI to submit list of all authorised financial institutions
- Register note 2026-10-23 — 30th FSDC meeting (New Delhi): macro-financial stability review; workplan covers tokenisation of financial and real-world assets, Financial Sector Cyber Security Strategy, KYC digitalisation for NRIs and FPIs, DPI scale-up (Account Aggregator, ULI) for MSMEs, faster unclaimed-asset refunds; attendance list confirms Jayanti Prasad as IBBI Acting Chairperson
- Leadership 2026-09-18 — Kamlesh Chandra Varshney reappointed SEBI Whole-Time Member until 4 Aug 2029 (gazette S.O. 5142(E)); Amarjeet Singh term ends without renewal announcement
- Leadership 2026-09-13 — Jayanti Prasad, Whole-Time Member, takes additional charge as IBBI Chairperson after Ravi Mital's tenure ends (turned 65); charge runs until 20 Nov 2026 or till a successor joins
- SRO framework 2026-09-10 — UFF recognised as second RBI SRO-FT (10 Sep 2026) — tracked in SROTrac
Latest briefs
- RBI 2026-11-09 — Reserve Bank of India — what changed, and what to watch
- RBI 2026-11-09 — One rulebook for the money movers — RBI consolidates cyber rules for non-bank payment operators
- RBI 2026-11-02 — The court reads the draft — RBI's KYC rulebook now answers to the Supreme Court
- IBBI 2026-10-26 — Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India — what changed, and what to watch
- FSDC 2026-10-26 — Financial Stability and Development Council — what changed, and what to watch