IRDAI
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India, which regulates the insurance sector in India, aiming to protect the interests of insurance policy holders and to ensure systematic growth of the insurance…
This one is not written up yet
The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.
Written up from the same chapter
- Connected personA person whose association with a company in the six months before the act put them, or could reasonably be expected to put them, in a position to access unpublished price sensitive information.
- FATFThe intergovernmental body founded in 1989 that writes the global AML/CFT standards — the 40 Recommendations plus IX Special Recommendations — and grey-lists or black-lists countries that fail them.
- FIU-INDIndia's central national agency for receiving, processing, analysing and disseminating information on suspect financial transactions, set up in November 2004 and reporting to the Economic Intelligence Council.
- IFSCAThe unified regulator of India's International Financial Services Centre, established in April 2020, holding inside the IFSC the powers that RBI, SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDAI hold outside it.
- InsuranceThe risk-management approach that pays an explicit upfront premium to remove the downside while keeping the upside — which in derivatives means buying an option rather than selling a future.
- NomineeThe person you name to receive custody of your money or securities when you die — a custodian who must pass the asset to the legal heirs, not the owner of it.
Where this is taught
- Series III-A · Chapter 2: Regulatory Framework - General Viewintroduced here
- Series SEBI-ICE · Chapter 6: Insurance Related Productsintroduced here
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