Financial Awareness is an important part of Banking, Insurance, SSC, RBI, and other competitive exams. Questions are commonly asked from RBI regulations, banking and financial developments, digital payments, UPI, capital markets, insurance, pension, banking appointments, financial institutions, and important financial policies. Staying updated with these topics helps candidates strengthen their General Awareness preparation and improve their performance in competitive exams.
Financial Awareness 2026, FREE PDF
The Financial Awareness September 2026 FREE PDF covers important banking and financial developments from the month, including key policy rates, Global Fintech Fest 2026, RBI regulations, FCNR(B) swap facility, banking data, RBI penalties, UPI and payment developments, SEBI updates, banks in news, insurance, pension, government schemes, and important appointments. The notes are presented in an exam-oriented one-liner format along with practice MCQs to help candidates revise important financial awareness current affairs for upcoming competitive exams.
Financial Awareness Study Notes, FREE Quiz
The FREE Financial Awareness Quiz allows candidates to practice questions based on September 2026 financial and banking current affairs, including RBI regulations, fintech and digital payments, UPI, capital markets, banking developments, insurance, pension, schemes, and important appointments. Regular practice helps candidates assess their preparation, revise important updates, and improve accuracy while solving General Awareness questions in competitive exams.
1. Which edition of the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) was held in September 2026?
2. Where was the Global Fintech Fest 2026 held?
3. Which three technologies formed the theme of GFF 2026?
4. Which of these is NOT an organiser of GFF 2026?
5. In how many countries does UPI currently operate, as mentioned at GFF 2026?
6. Borrowers under which schemes can now use their sanctioned credit limits directly through UPI for merchant payments?
7. Which state announced its vision to become India’s first ‘tokenised state’?
8. NPCI launched which two agentic AI platforms at GFF 2026?
9. What does ‘FIMI’, the small language model behind UPI’s new customer support solution, stand for?
10. Up to what amount can UPI tap-to-pay transactions be made without entering a UPI PIN?
11. UPI tap-to-pay at PoS terminals is enabled by which technology?
12. UIDAI launched which tool at GFF 2026 to help developers integrate Aadhaar face authentication?
13. From when will the Bankers’ Books Evidence Act, 2026 come into force?
14. RBI’s Directions on Minimum Capital Requirements for Market Risk under Basel III take effect from:
15. Under RBI’s revised norms, at what value will InvIT units be held if the InvIT fails to disclose NAV as prescribed?
16. RBI’s revised InvIT/REIT valuation amendments were issued under which section of the RBI Act, 1934?
17. Under RBI’s draft cyber-fraud framework, banks will freeze only the disputed amount for unusual transfers of at least:
18. Under RBI’s draft framework, how many days will a customer get to establish the legitimacy of a flagged transaction?
19. RBI’s draft framework on money-mule accounts follows a Supreme Court order dated:
20. On which date was RBI’s concessional forex swap facility operationalised?
21. The window for fresh FCNR(B) deposits under RBI’s swap facility closed on:
22. Till when will the concessional swap facility for ECBs and OFCBs remain open?
23. Total foreign currency inflows under RBI’s swap facility till September 18, 2026 were about:
24. How much was mobilised under the similar FCNR(B) scheme of 2013?
25. How much did ICICI Bank mobilise under the FCNR(B) scheme?
Quiz Summary
26. Yes Bank mobilised about how much via FCNR(B) deposits under the RBI swap window?
27. Bank deposit growth in the fortnight ended August 31, 2026 rose to 17.8%, the highest since:
28. What was the incremental credit-deposit ratio as of August 31, 2026?
29. Public sector banks disbursed $52.8 billion in loans through IFSC Banking Units at GIFT City, according to:
30. Gold loans by NBFCs grew by how much year-on-year in July 2026?
31. RBI imposed a penalty of Rs.27.30 lakh on Asset Care & Reconstruction Enterprise under which Act?
32. RBI’s penalty on Ola Financial Services was imposed under which Act?
33. RBI imposed a Rs.10 lakh penalty on Hero Fincorp for non-compliance with directions on:
34. KLM Axiva Finvest was penalised Rs.2.70 lakh for lapses related to:
35. How many NBFCs had their certificates of registration cancelled by the RBI in this release?
36. RNFI Services received in-principle RBI authorisation to operate as which type of payment aggregator?
37. Pluxee India received RBI authorisation to operate as a payment aggregator for:
38. Jio Payment Solutions Ltd (JPSL) received RBI authorisation as a:
39. PB Pay, which commenced operations as a payment aggregator, belongs to:
40. NPCI’s 0.4% MDR on P2M UPI transactions above Rs.2,000 takes effect from:
41. Under the new UPI MDR framework, what is the maximum MDR on a purchase of Rs.75,000 or above?
42. What flat MDR applies to UPI payments above Rs.2,000 for railways, telecom, insurance and fuel?
43. What MDR applies to UPI payments for capital market transactions?
44. Under the UPI MDR revenue-sharing model, what share goes to issuer banks?
45. Small merchants receiving up to how much per month via UPI QR remain exempt from MDR?
46. The zero-MDR regime for UPI merchant transactions had been in place since:
47. What is the per-transaction UPI limit for capital market payments?
48. Which NPCI platform is developing ‘Netbanking 2.0’?
49. What is the proposed issue size of Jio Platforms’ IPO approved by SEBI?
50. Which company currently holds the record for India’s largest IPO that Jio Platforms is set to surpass?
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