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Brazil s central bank chief Gabriel Galipolo notes a surge in crypto asset usage, driven largely by stablecoins. This trend, primarily for international payments, presents regulation challenges. He highlights Brazil s Drex project and suggests the potential for Pix to integrate with international instant payment systems.

Public Citizen has requested a federal investigation into whether President Trump violated gift solicitation laws by promoting the $Trump meme coin, urging the Department of Justice and the U.S. Office of Government Ethics to halt its sale.

Nithin Kamath emphasized that retail traders selling trading strategies or algorithms must now collaborate with a broker and register with exchanges. Marketplaces where traders share algos for a fee will also need exchange registration and a research analyst license. Further operational details from exchanges are expected by April 1, clarifying compliance requirements for traders and algo-sharing platforms.

Deposits obviously will be repriced with a lag because after we have decided to cut, the new deposits will start to be repriced, but the older ones will continue. So, initial as always, the impact of this in terms of margin pressure will be there initially, but it will all level out after some time.

SEBI has banned Asmita Jitesh Patel and her trading school for offering unregistered investment advice, impounding Rs 54 crore of illicit gains. Patel, known as the "Options Queen," used social media to promote stock trading courses. Investigations revealed course fees were routed through third-party entities. SEBI has barred all involved from accessing the securities market.

Inflation is expected to significantly decrease to around 4.45% to 4.5% in the next 12 months. This allows the Reserve Bank of India to shift its focus back to economic growth. The new governor is optimistic about this forecast. The recent policy is prudent, and if global uncertainties settle, we may see rate cuts increase.

M&M Q3 Results: Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) reported a 19% year-on-year increase in standalone net profit at Rs 2,964 crore for the December quarter. Revenue from operations grew 20% YoY to Rs 30,538 crore, with a 32% rise in standalone EBITDA. Quarterly auto volumes rose 16%, and tractor sales increased by 20%, highlighting strong market share and margin performance.

In the last 24 hours, Bitcoin’s market cap fell to $1.918 trillion, with its dominance now at 61.09%. During the same period, BTC s trading volume increased by 3.64%, reaching $47.83 billion.

Although the rate cut is seen as positive for equities, the RBI s policy failed to offer a clear direction for the stock market, which has been facing pressure due to FII outflows, the ongoing Trump tariff war, and Q3 earnings that were insufficient to support valuations.

This often reduces open interest and pushes the stock price up.