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Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day 2025-15 October

  • Date: 15 October
  • Purpose: Raising awareness, providing remembrance, and assistance for families that experience miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal loss, and infant loss.
  • Focus 2025: Remembering the 1 in 4 families affected by pregnancy and infant loss, advocating for understanding and emotional supoprt.

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International Day of Rural Women 15 October 2025

  • Date: 15 October
  • Purpose: To commemorate and celebrate the remarkable contribution by rural women towards agriculture, food security.
  • Focus 2025: Women's empowerment in rural regions through access to resources, education, and access to finances.

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RBI Introduces Unified Markets Interface (UMI)

 

  • Initiative: Unified Markets Interface (UMI) to tokenise financial assets through wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
  • Announcement: RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra at Global Fintech Fest 2025

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BANKING FINANCE and BUSINESS Current Affairs Notes

 

HSBC invests one billion dollars in Indian Start-ups 

  • Innovation: HSBC India: Innovation Banking platform.
  • Intention: ₹8,880 crore (US$ 1 billion) to offer short-term working capital and term loans to start-ups.

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NPS and APY Assets Cross 16 Lakh Crore

 

  • Measure: NPS and APY Combined Assets Under Management (AUM) higher than 16 lakh crore.
  • Subscriber Base: More than 9 crore subscribers in the country.

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