Geotagging

Sebi to focus on tech, plans Geotagging to boost enforcement activities

Capital markets regulator Sebi is betting big on technology, as it plans to implement a Geotagging solution in the current financial year to strengthen the process of its enforcement activities. While focussing on technology, Sebi said it plans to undertake various projects to boost its information technology (IT) capacity and build a "fault-tolerant" architecture. The move is aimed at further enhancing its technological and cybersecurity capability, and to better serve its stakeholders. "In the coming year, Sebi plans to implement a Geotagging Solution to strengthen the process of its enforcement activities," the regulator said in its annual report for 2022-23. Geotagging is the process of adding geographical information usually in the form of latitude and longitude coordinates to various media such as photos, videos, etc. The project intends to implement geotagging technology-based mobile application solutions, which help the market regulator to take necessary photos or videos a

CBIC to implement geotagging for verification of new GST registrations

The move comes after it was found that fake office places were created for verification; geotagging functionality is currently available to taxpayers registered in Delhi and Haryana

RBI directs banks and non-banks to geotag payment touch points

Geo-tagging refers to capturing the geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) of payment touch points deployed by merchants to receive payments from their customers

Irdai urges use of video KYC with geo-tagging, live photo of customer

In January this year, RBI had allowed banks and NBFCs to complete full KYC remotely. A number of banks have rolled out this service since the RBI's nod

Seen and heard: Geo-tagging, elections boost out of home advertising

Technology helps recast one of the oldest modes of promotion, while a string of big events promises to deliver a big year for outdoor advertising