Reserve Bank of India (Non-Banking Financial Companies – Managing Risks in Outsourcing) Directions, 2025

The record

What it says

• Binds NBFCs across the scale-based layers, together with HFCs, CICs, standalone primary dealers and the account aggregator and peer-to-peer lending categories.
• Scales by layer: Base Layer NBFCs follow the general outsourcing provisions only, while Middle Layer and above pick up the IT-specific ones.
• Gave existing IT outsourcing agreements until 10 April 2026 to comply — the same date as the commercial banks instrument.
• Issued the same day as RBI/DOR/2025-26/171 and reads as its NBFC limb.

Read the instrument

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• RBI/DOR/2025-26/363 — RBI’s own copy

Instruments that change what this one requires

Not a reading list. Each of these alters the obligation on this page — the amendment that moved a date, the sibling that binds the entity class this one excludes, or the separate track it is routinely merged with.

• RBI outsourcing Directions, 2025 RBI/DOR/2025-26/171 — Commercial banks — a separate outsourcing track the 2026 Directions preserve rather than absorb.
• Non-Banking Financial Companies RBI/DoS/2026-27/461 — All NBFCs, through three alternative chapters split at ₹500 crore, and Core Investment Companies.

This record is one entry in the Indian cyber regulation register, which publishes the same fields for every instrument as an open dataset. Indicative, and not legal advice: whether an instrument reaches your organisation turns on your licences and registrations, and is a determination for your legal team.