Tata AIA Sampoorna Raksha Promise helps families secure financial goals amid rising cost of living
Tata AIA Life Insurance, a leading life insurer in India, offers Tata AIA Sampoorna Raksha Promise, a comprehensive term insurance plan designed to help families achieve financial security amid rising living costs. This innovative product combines comprehensive life coverage, flexible premium options, optional riders, and additional benefits that make financial protection accessible at an affordable cost. Key Highlights • Tata AIA Sampoorna Raksha Promise provides life coverage for up to 100 years, allowing families to meet both their short-term and long-term financial obligations.

What really counts in life insurance: The claim experience
In life insurance, value is proven not in brochures or marketing campaigns, but at the moment a family files a claim. It’s here—where operational efficiency, regulation and human empathy intersect—that the industry’s promise is truly tested.

A term plan that refunds your money if you survive
A term insurance plan with return of premium (TROP) is an attractive option for individuals seeking both life coverage and a potential return on their premiums. It is ideal for those who seek certainty over market-linked returns. However, these plans come with higher premiums, around 1.8x to 2x the cost of regular term plans, due to the inclusion of a maturity benefit.

Axis Max Life’s E-Commerce channel achieves 52% two-year CAGR on APE in H1 FY26; becomes one of the leading players in online protection and savings market
 

‘Claims exchange will end insurer-hospital friction,’ Q&A with Tapan Singhel MD Bajaj General Insurance
The National Health Claims Exchange (NHCX) brings the entire health insurance ecosystem onto one structured digital platform. Tapan Singhel, MD & CEO, Bajaj General Insurance and chairman of General Insurance Council, tells Saikat Neogi while all insurers are already on NHCX, hospital participation has been slow. Once hospitals join, real-time digital exchange will make claims faster, simpler, and more transparent.

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ICICI Lombard, Vastu Housing Finance join hands for insurance distribution
Mumbai: ICICI Lombard General Insurance and Vastu Housing Finance announced a partnership on Friday to offer insurance products to Vastu’s housing loan customers across 17 States and 340 districts in India.

Safeguard your vehicle this monsoon: essential motor insurance add-ons from Royal Sundaram
 

Senior IRS officer Sandip Pradhan takes charge as Sebi whole-time member
Senior Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Sandip Pradhan on Thursday took charge as a whole-time member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi). He has been appointed to the post for a three-year term. Pradhan, a 1990-batch IRS officer, was until recently director general of income tax (investigation) in Pune, where he handled major tax investigations and compliance enforcement.

Sebi plans to overhaul FPI registration process for global investors in efforts to simplify compliance
India's capital markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), on Friday, 5 December 2025, proposed a comprehensive overhaul of the Foreign Portfolio Investor (FPI) framework, with aims to streamline the registration process, reported the news agency PTI.
 

Sebi impounds Rs 546 crore from Avadhut Sathe; bars the finfluencer from securities market amid crackdown

Mumbai: Cracking down on an illegal finfluencer, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has impounded Rs 546.16 crore, representing the total unlawful gains allegedly earned by Avadhut Sathe Trading Academy Pvt Ltd (ASTAPL) and Avadhut Sathe through unregistered investment advisory and research analyst activities.

‘We intend to deepen our presence in Tier 2, 3 cities: Incubate Fund Asia’ Q&A with Incubate Fund Asia founder Nao
Incubate Fund Asia is preparing to launch its Fund IV in early 2026, with plans to back 10–15 startups by FY26. The fund will continue to pursue high-conviction pre-seed and seed investments across India and Southeast Asia. In an interview, founder Nao Murakami speaks to S. Shanthi about the company’s plan and its growth expansion potential in Tier-2 and Tier-3 markets.

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