Platform operators must apply objective, fair, transparent and non-discriminatory criteria for participant admission. They must conduct due diligence on an applicant's reputation, competence, experience, and organisational, financial and technological capacity. Each participant must be uniquely identified through a Legal Entity Identifier, Permanent Account Number, or equivalent document. Resident Indian persons may participate where applicable law permits eligible instrument transactions outside India.

Electronic Trading Platform operators must maintain transparent trading rules, objective order-execution criteria, tradable-instrument eligibility criteria, and a conflict-of-interest policy. They must provide publicly available information, screen-based trade execution or submission, secure participant connectivity, sound technical operations and business continuity. Real-time surveillance of prices, volumes and positions, defined investigation, escalation and regulatory-reporting procedures, real-time dissemination of trade, quantity and quote information, and grievance redressal are required. Settlement-related disputes are governed by applicable laws and Operating Policy.

Electronic Trading Platform Operators must continuously maintain the prescribed minimum net worth, with branch operators maintaining it with their parent. A higher requirement may be specified according to business nature and scale. Operators must submit an audited net-worth certificate within six months after each financial year closes and must immediately rectify and report any net-worth shortfall within fifteen days.

An Electronic Trading Platform Operator may apply to surrender its registration in the specified form and manner. The Authority may permit surrender, subject to appropriate conditions, if it is satisfied that the surrender is unlikely to materially adversely affect the financial services market in the International Financial Services Centre or the interests of Participants. Surrender takes effect only upon the Authority's acceptance.

Registration of an Electronic Trading Platform Operator may be suspended or cancelled for breach of certificate conditions, applicable regulations, or an Authority order or direction, or where operations prejudice Participants' interests. The operator must be given a reasonable opportunity to be heard through written submissions before a suspension or cancellation order is issued.

Before refusing registration, the Authority must communicate application deficiencies and allow thirty days for rectification, subject to permitted extensions. Extensions beyond ninety days require the Chairperson's permission and recorded reasons, with a maximum period of one hundred and eighty days. If deficiencies remain unrectified, refusal must be reasoned and preceded by a reasonable opportunity to file written submissions. A fresh registration application may be made six months after communication of refusal.

Registration of an Electronic Trading Platform Operator requires in-principle approval where the applicant prima facie fulfils registration conditions. Such approval may include additional conditions and may be revoked if those conditions are not fulfilled to the Authority's satisfaction. Final registration is granted upon fulfilment of all requirements, specifies eligible instruments and participant categories, and remains subject to continuing conditions until cancellation or surrender.

Registration eligibility for an electronic trading platform depends on the applicant's track record, management expertise, financial soundness, staffing capability, risk-management systems, internal controls, net-worth capacity, and viable business plan and projections. Directors, key managerial personnel, and natural persons exercising ultimate ownership, control, or significant influence must satisfy fit and proper criteria throughout the validity of registration.

Registration as an Electronic Trading Platform Operator is required for operation of an Electronic Trading Platform in the IFSC, subject to exemptions for specified IFSC Banking Units and offshore platform operators serving IFSC entities. Eligible applicants include IFSC-incorporated companies, branches in the IFSC of platform operators from eligible jurisdictions, and IFSC financial institutions subject to specified terms and conditions. Applications must be made to the Authority in the prescribed form and manner with the prescribed fee.

Regulation 2 defines the framework for electronic trading platforms in an IFSC, including Eligible Instruments, Electronic Trading Platforms, ETP Operators, Participants, Algorithmic Trading Systems, Market Abuse, and Net Worth. Eligible Instruments include specified financial instruments and Indian Rupee-denominated instruments settled in foreign currency. Market Abuse covers conduct intended to disadvantage participants, distort pricing, or create artificial supply and demand. Net Worth includes specified capital and reserve components subject to prescribed exclusions, while undefined terms adopt meanings under relevant financial, banking, and corporate laws.

International Financial Services Centres Authority (Electronic Trading Platforms) Regulations, 2026 take effect upon publication in the Official Gazette. They are made under powers conferred by the International Financial Services Centres Authority Act, 2019, read with cited provisions of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, concerning electronic trading platforms in International Financial Services Centres.

Every IIO must maintain a Board-approved investment policy, value assets and liabilities, preserve solvency, and hold investment assets at least equal to liabilities while matching their nature, duration, currency and uncertainty. Investment assets must generally satisfy investment-grade asset and sovereign-rating criteria, comply with asset-class and concentration limits, remain free from encumbrances, and be subject to independent due diligence, risk monitoring, internal controls, audits and prescribed reporting. Exceeding exposure limits or a downgrade below investment grade requires additional capital as specified.

GST registration may be suspended where return comparisons or other prescribed analysis reveal significant anomalies indicating contravention capable of leading to cancellation. The registered person must receive electronic intimation and explain within thirty days why cancellation should not follow. Pending dedicated portal functionality, notice is made available through FORM GST REG-17, with reply submitted in FORM GST REG-18. The proper officer may drop proceedings and revoke suspension through FORM GST REG-20, or cancel registration through FORM GST REG-19 after examining the response.

Rule 36(4) restricts input tax credit on supplier-uploadable invoices and debit notes that remain unuploaded. Such unmatched credit may not exceed 20 per cent of eligible ITC on uploaded invoices or debit notes, calculated on a consolidated basis as reflected in GSTR-2A on the supplier's GSTR-1 due date. The taxpayer must self-assess compliance and may claim deferred balance ITC in later months when suppliers upload the relevant details, subject to the continuing cap and ordinary eligibility conditions.

Registered International Financial Service Centre Insurance Offices must follow prescribed accounting and presentation requirements. Unincorporated offices use the accounting standards and accounting year of their parent entity; incorporated offices use ICAI standards subject to direct-method cash-flow reporting, mandatory segment reporting and non-application of the investment accounting standard. Financial statements require comparative information, disclosure of applicable standards, accounting policies and their changes, and USD reporting unless otherwise specified. Incorporated offices must submit annual reports containing governance, risk, audited financial, external audit and actuarial materials, while all offices must separately account for policyholders' and shareholders' funds.

Specified insurance regulations and product-filing guidelines cease to apply in the International Financial Services Centre, including requirements concerning insurance distribution databases, e-insurance policies, health insurance, linked and non-linked products, and product filing. A related operational guideline clause is omitted. Insurance contracts entered into before commencement remain valid unless otherwise provided. Existing insurance offices must comply with additional requirements within one month of commencement or within an extended period specified by the Authority.

The Authority may issue guidance notes or circulars to clarify difficulties in applying or interpreting the regulations. On an application accompanied by the specified non-refundable processing fee, it may relax strict enforcement of any provision for reasons recorded in writing.

The Authority may specify norms, procedures, processes and compliance manners for IIOs to implement, facilitate and regulate insurance products and matters incidental to them. This enables operational requirements governing IIO compliance with prescribed arrangements for insurance products and related incidental matters within the applicable regulatory framework for their effective administration.

An IIO must furnish the Authority with information concerning its products in the manner, at the intervals, and in the format specified by the Authority. The requirement creates a continuing product-information reporting obligation, with reporting modalities, frequency, and submission format determined through the Authority's specifications.

Referral arrangements require an IIO to comply with the regulatory framework specified by the Authority for arrangements between the IIO and a referral entity. The framework governs the regulatory conditions applicable to such referral relationships.