In the past seven trading days, the market price of Fino Payments Bank was down 33 per cent despite the bank denied any involvement in betting or gaming activities.
After the Fino Payments Bank episode, fintech firms seek safe harbour protection and tighten internal controls, consolidating key responsibilities amid rising compliance risks
Bank says reports of an ED probe into online gaming transactions are speculative and clarifies that the ongoing DGGI investigation relates to programme managers and merchants
Fino Payments Bank shares slumped 19.5 per cent in trade on the BSE, touching an all-time low at ₹136 per share and hovering near its 20 per cent lower circuit
Telangana High Court reserves verdict on plea by Fino Payments Bank MD Rishi Gupta challenging his arrest in an alleged ₹10,000 crore GST evasion case linked to merchant transactions
Rishi Gupta's return to office subject to NRC, board reassessment and RBI view
Industry examines oversight and risks tied to programme managers
Payments bank says conversion into small finance bank will be completed before RBI's 18-month deadline and does not foresee any financial liability amid the ongoing GST probe
In Monday's session, Fino Payments Bank share price declined 14.14 per cent to a 52-week low of ₹165.01 per share on the National Stock Exchange (NSE)
Crackdown on payout API misuse in banned real money gaming may widen probe to payment aggregators and smaller banks amid heightened regulatory scrutiny
The DGGI's arrest of Fino Payments Bank MD Rishi Gupta in a probe linked to banned online gaming has intensified scrutiny of GST liability, programme managers and compliance networks
Fino is the first and the only payments bank so far to apply for conversion into an SFB
Finance Ministry sources say probe has flagged GST evasion, shell entities and payment aggregators in alleged banned online gaming operations, leading to arrest of a senior bank official
The outreach comes at a time when FM Sitharaman on social media platform X took note of the issue and said she will check on it
Fino Payments Bank says its MD Rishi Gupta and the bank had no role in alleged GST violations linked to programme managers; Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says she will review the issue
Around 1:10 PM, Fino Payments Bank share price was trading near day's high, up 7.98 per cent at ₹225.35. In comparison, BSE Sensex was trading 0.31 per cent higher at 82,114.27 levels.
Profit-taking and a broader selloff drive the record fall, even as the bank gets 18 months to transition into a small finance bank with a cautious lending plan
Fresh off its RBI nod, Fino Payments Bank plans a cautious but differentiated path as it transitions into a small finance bank-with digital scale, low-cost liabilities and secured lending at its core
A payments bank is eligible to apply to transition into an SFB after completing five years of operations, subject to meeting compliance and regulatory requirements
Fino Payments Bank settled proceedings with the Securities and Exchange Board of India related to alleged violations of disclosure norms under the Sebi Regulations