Data-driven logistics transparency enables standardized API access under the National Logistics Policy, streamlining sector operations and oversight.
Launch of Unified Logistics Interface Platform under the National Logistics Policy provides a centralized API portal enabling registration, use-case review, NDA-backed gated access and technical support to industry. ULIP integrates multiple ministry systems through numerous APIs to supply logistics data fields for sanctioned uses such as track-and-trace, eKYC, document digitization, IEC validation and gate/yard automation. Controlled data provisioning and contractual confidentiality govern access while API integrations aim to lower operational costs, automate compliance checks and support development of commercial logistics applications.

Atal Pension Yojana enrolment growth prompts expanded outreach and funding release to widen coverage and accessibility.
Atal Pension Yojana requires joining between ages 18 and 40 with pension from age 60; government funding for co-contribution, bank incentives, promotional campaigns and gap funding has been allocated and largely released. Enrolments increased over three fiscal years. PFRDA pursues outreach and onboarding through capacity building for banking correspondents, partnerships with livelihood institutions, monitoring of banks and state committees, multimedia campaigns, virtual and physical subscriber programs, online channels, multilingual brochures, and customer support services.

Transparent recognition of NPAs drove reforms that strengthened asset quality, provisioning and capital adequacy in public banks.
A coordinated government strategy emphasised transparent recognition of NPAs, resolution and recovery, recapitalisation and systemic reforms; this led to clearer credit discipline, increased provisioning, bank recapitalisation, governance and technological measures, and culminated in strengthened asset quality, higher provision coverage and capital adequacy, restored profitability, and removal of prompt corrective action restrictions for public sector banks.

Sustainable finance mobilization and SDG financing advanced through international working group meeting with workshops on policy levers and CBT.
An international sustainable finance working group meeting will convene over three days to advance the workplan focused on mobilising timely and adequate climate finance, enabling finance for the Sustainable Development Goals, and building capacity of the financing ecosystem. Accompanying workshops address non-pricing policy levers for sustainable investment and financing for SDGs-emphasising nature-related data, reporting and social impact investing-while a dedicated event will share experiences on climate budget tagging to improve monitoring of climate-related expenditures.

Payment system governance and resilience urged to ensure secure, inclusive and internationalised digital payments by operators.
The Reserve Bank directs Payment System Operators to implement governance and compliance measures-prudent risk management, robust IT and cyber resilience, enforceable outsourcing agreements with audit rights, prompt transaction reconciliation and accessible grievance redress (including RBI's ODR)-while operationalising safeguards such as additional authentication, tokenisation and card data restrictions; expand access to centralised settlement systems; enhance transparency in PPI, PA and TReDS markets; upgrade legacy systems; and support internationalisation of UPI and RuPay under Payments Vision 2025.

Global economic order restoration seeks coordinated debt treatment, digital public infrastructure for inclusion and scaled climate finance.
The speech urges restoring the global economic order through strengthened multilateralism and coordinated policy responses, prioritising facilitation of coordinated debt treatment for vulnerable countries, promotion of digital public infrastructure for financial inclusion (including digital identity, payments rails and data consent frameworks), scaling up balanced climate finance and MDB reform to catalyse investment, and reinforcing banking regulation and supervision-covering leverage ratios, large exposures, stress testing, cyber resilience and intensified on and off site oversight-to safeguard financial stability.

Listing through public offer will transfer part of government stake and enable fresh equity raising for IREDA.
Approval is granted for the Initial Public Offer listing of IREDA via part-sale of the Government's stake alongside a fresh equity issuance, with the disinvestment agency to manage the process; this supersedes an earlier decision because a subsequent capital infusion changed IREDA's capital structure.

Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme boosts MSME credit flow and prevents loan deterioration while easing debt servicing pressures.
Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) provides government-backed guarantees to support eligible MSMEs and business enterprises, increasing credit flow and easing debt servicing; the scheme has issued widespread guarantees benefitting a large number of borrowers and is credited with preventing a material portion of MSME exposures from becoming non-performing. Complementary measures include revised MSME classification, Udyam registration, inclusion of traders, collateral-free lending initiatives, digital loan portals, invoice-discounting platforms, external benchmark linkage for floating rate loans, and restructuring frameworks to strengthen credit transmission and recovery.

Digital payments incentive scheme expands bank incentives to promote RuPay, BHIM UPI and UPI lite, boosting low-value cashless transactions.
A government Incentive Scheme provides financial incentive to banks to promote point of sale and e commerce transactions using RuPay debit cards and low value person to merchant transactions on the BHIM UPI platform, and promotes UPI lite and UPI 123 PAY as economical, user friendly digital payment solutions, with central funding allocated for the relevant financial year to strengthen the digital payments ecosystem by incentivising banks to build acceptance infrastructure and consumer facing technologies.

FinTech regulation balancing innovation with consumer protection, mandating fairness, governance, and activity based oversight for digital finance.
Regulation must balance promotion of innovation with containment of risks to financial stability, market integrity and consumers. India employs adaptive, activity focused measures-including digital lending norms, account aggregator rules, peer to peer guidelines and regulatory sandboxes-to enable controlled testing and manage emergent legal, governance, operational and conduct risks. Emphasis is placed on fairness and safeguards for automated credit decisioning, customer centricity, robust product design, suitability checks, mitigation of model bias, and strengthened governance including self regulatory arrangements.

Digital payments adoption promoted through mission to onboard users, expand UPI and village programmes nationwide.
Mission 'Har Payment Digital' aims to deepen digital payments by onboarding consumers and merchants, leveraging UPI and supporting systems (BBPS, NETC, NACH), pursuing international linkages, and conducting targeted outreach including campaigns, regional participation and a 75 Digital Villages programme to enable village level merchant onboarding and adoption.

Issue price of sovereign gold bonds set; online digital applications receive a limited per gram discount for digital payments.
The announcement fixes the sovereign gold bond issue price per gram for the subscription period and states that investors who apply online and pay by digital mode are eligible for a per gram digital payment discount, resulting in a reduced effective issue price; it also specifies the subscription window and settlement date.

Union government monthly accounts show receipts composition and expenditure split, highlighting devolution to states and revenue pressures.
The consolidated monthly accounts up to January 2023 report aggregates of the Union Government's receipts-Tax Revenue (Net to Centre), Non Tax Revenue and Non Debt Capital Receipts (loan recoveries and miscellaneous)-and notes realised proportions against revised estimates, including increased transfers to States as Devolution of Share of Taxes. Expenditure is classified into Revenue and Capital, highlighting Interest Payments and Major Subsidies within Revenue Expenditure, thereby indicating current budgetary absorption and compositional pressures between revenue and capital outlays.

Crypto asset regulation seeks coordinated global policy consensus, integrating macro financial and regulatory risk assessment across jurisdictions.
The document calls for coordinated crypto asset regulation to address macroeconomic and financial stability risks, information gaps, and governance shortfalls, urging a data-driven approach, a common taxonomy, clear regulatory perimeters, and treatment of critical digital ledger infrastructure as a public good, with international technical collaboration proposed to synthesize macroeconomic and regulatory perspectives for a comprehensive policy response.

Global finance coordination advances through a Finance Track communique to strengthen MDBs, digital infrastructure and international taxation.
The Deputies meeting will finalise a Communique to guide coordinated Finance Track policy responses on the global economic outlook and risks, emphasizing strengthened Multilateral Development Banks, financing for urban and infrastructure needs, leveraging Digital Public Infrastructure for financial inclusion, and advancing the international taxation agenda as core workstreams to support inclusive multilateral solutions.

Minimum Capital Requirements for Market Risk: draft guidelines issued, applicable to commercial banks, comments invited.
Draft guidelines set minimum capital requirements for market risk under Basel III convergence, applicable to commercial banks while excluding Local Area Banks, Payments Banks, Regional Rural Banks, Small Finance Banks and all co-operative banks; they specify a future effective date and invite stakeholder comments within a defined consultation period.

Government securities lending consultation launched; stakeholders invited to submit comments and feedback per prescribed submission channels.
The Reserve Bank of India has published the Draft Reserve Bank of India (Government Securities Lending) Directions, 2023 and initiated a stakeholder consultation inviting banks, market participants and other interested parties to submit comments by the specified deadline. Comments may be sent by post to the Chief General Manager, Financial Markets Regulation Department at the Central Office address provided, or by email using the prescribed subject line for receipt.

G20 finance ministers meeting to advance multilateral development banks, digital public infrastructure, financial inclusion and international tax cooperation.
The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting, preceded by a Deputies meeting, brings together finance ministers, central bank governors, deputies and international organisation heads to discuss strengthening multilateral development banks; financing resilient, inclusive and sustainable urban infrastructure; leveraging Digital Public Infrastructure for financial inclusion and productivity; and coordination on global economy, health and international taxation. The discussions aim to provide mandates for the G20 Finance Track workstreams, with parallel side events on DPI, crypto-asset policy perspectives, national payment systems for cross-border payments, and ministerial engagement with tech innovators, accompanied by cultural programmes for delegates.

Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme bolsters MSME credit access and prevents deterioration of loans into non-performing assets.
The Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS), launched in May 2020, provides government-backed guarantees to support eligible MSMEs and businesses to meet operational liabilities post-COVID-19. As of 31 January 2023, guarantees under ECLGS have been issued to a large number of borrowers with MSMEs comprising the majority of loan counts and a significant share of guaranteed amounts. The scheme contributed to preserving MSME accounts from slipping into NPA status and is cited alongside complementary measures improving MSME credit access and financial resilience.

Incentive scheme for digital payments expands bank incentives to promote RuPay and low value UPI usage.
MeitY's Incentive Scheme provides financial incentives to banks to promote RuPay Debit Card acceptance and low value BHIM UPI P2M transactions (up to the stated low value threshold), and promotes UPI lite and UPI 123 PAY as economical digital payment options; a dedicated budget was allocated for the Scheme to strengthen acceptance infrastructure and drive wider digital payment adoption.