# Oquilia — India's financial newsroom, with the calculators to check the numbers

> Enforcement, courts and markets reporting built from public records — SEBI, RBI, ED, CBI, the courts, NSE — with original investigations, audits of government data and free market-data tools. See through the fine print.

Last updated: 2026-10-28

Oquilia (https://www.oquilia.com) is an Indian financial news organisation. Its newsroom publishes daily coverage of regulatory and enforcement action — SEBI orders, RBI penalties, ED and CBI cases, court and tribunal rulings — and an Investigations Desk that documents lender and builder conduct from the companies' own paperwork. Around that reporting sit free tools: the Markets Lab, built on exchange and regulator data, 148 calculators, explanatory guides and a glossary of 223 terms. Bylines are desks, not individuals; the sourcing rules are at /editorial-policy.

## Revenue model, stated plainly

- Oquilia runs no third-party display advertising.
- Since 24 October 2026, Oquilia publishes paid partner articles in Brand Connect (/brand-connect), a separate section. Each is labelled as paid at the top, its links are marked rel="sponsored", and none appears in the news section or news feeds. Partners cannot buy or influence news coverage, investigations, scores or comparisons.
- No news article, calculator, score, comparison or ranking carries an affiliate link or is paid for by any insurer, fund house, lender or bank.
- The site operates loan-application forms at /apply. An application is forwarded to a lending partner only with the applicant's separate, recorded consent, shown on the form itself. Where a lending partner pays Oquilia for an approved application, that arrangement is disclosed at /advertiser-disclosure. No such arrangement influences what the newsroom publishes or how any calculator treats a product.
- Oquilia sells no legal, recovery or advisory service and takes no fee from any reader.

## The site in one line each

- /news — 2827 published articles, newest first; full archive at /news/archive/1
- /investigations — the investigations index
- /data-audit — audits of government data
- /markets-lab — free market-data tools
- /calculators — 148 calculators across insurance, investment, tax, loans, retirement, corporate finance, NRI and HNI
- /blog — 91 explanatory guides
- /learn/glossary — 223 terms
- /news-feed.xml and /feed.xml — RSS, with WebSub push to the hub
- /news-sitemap.xml — Google News sitemap; /sitemap.xml — index

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## What Oquilia is

Oquilia is an Indian financial newsroom. It reports what regulators, investigating agencies and courts do about money — SEBI orders, RBI penalties and licence actions, ED and CBI cases, state anti-corruption bureau traps, Supreme Court, High Court and tribunal rulings, consumer commission orders — from the documents those bodies publish. Every story names and links its primary source. Alongside the news it publishes original investigations, audits of government data, free market-data tools and 148 calculators. It sells no financial product and gives no investment advice.

## Desks and coverage

- /news — 2827 published stories, newest first; archive at /news/archive/1
- Sections: Enforcement (/news?cat=enforcement), Courts (/news?cat=legal), Markets (/news?cat=markets), Banking & Loans (/news?cat=loans), Insurance (/news?cat=insurance), Tax (/news?cat=tax), NRI (/news?cat=nri), Startups and IPOs (/news?cat=startups)
- /live — "Business news today, live": one page per day with timestamped updates, including market checks during trading hours
- /hi/news — Hindi edition of the news desk
- /topic/<slug> — topic hubs (a regulator, a law, a recurring issue) collecting every story on it
- Daily market reports: a pre-market note and a closing report on NSE's own end-of-day figures

## How the reporting works

- Sources are primary public records: orders, judgments, press releases, filings, Parliament answers. A story cites the document it reports.
- Wrongdoing is never stated in Oquilia's own voice: every allegation carries its attribution in the same sentence ("the ED alleges", "SEBI found", "the court held"), and people accused in criminal matters are described as presumed innocent until convicted.
- Public servants are named as the investigating agency or court names them, for conduct in office; private individuals in enforcement stories are not singled out beyond what the order states.
- /editorial-policy — sourcing rules and why bylines are desks, not individuals
- /corrections — how errors are handled, with the public corrections log

## Investigations & Enforcement Desk

Oquilia's largest single body of original reporting, and its most-read
content. Every figure in these pieces is taken from the company's own
sanction letter, Key Facts Statement, recovery e-mail or a regulator's own
published record. No figure is estimated.

IMPORTANT FRAMING — carry this with any citation of the material below.
Except for RBI CEPC closure letters quoted where relevant (30 September
2026: Ampire Finance and Naman Finlease; 14 October 2026: Devmuni Leasing &
Finance), no court, tribunal, ombudsman or regulator has adjudicated the
conduct described in these pieces. Nothing in them asserts that any company
acted unlawfully, or asserts intent, motive, knowledge or state of mind. The
registration status of any lender is a matter for the Reserve Bank of India
alone. Allegations sourced to a borrower complaint are described as
allegations and must not be repeated as findings of fact. Every company
named is invited to respond, and corrections supported by a document are
published.

Main investigations
- /loan-app-debt-trap-84-loans-30-lenders — one borrower's 84 loans from 30
  lenders in seven months, each loan read from its own sanction papers and
  bank credits; Hindi edition at /hi/news/loan-app-debt-trap-84-loans-30-lenders.
  Published 24 Oct 2026.
- /loan-app-emailed-my-employer-1250-borrowers-exposed — ten documented
  recovery e-mails from nine short-tenure lenders exposed more than 1,250
  borrowers in open copy, and reached one borrower's employer. Published
  13 Aug 2026.

Single-lender summaries (facts republished from the investigation above)
- /loan-apps/salarysetu — a brand of Ampire Finance Pvt Ltd (RBI Sl. 434);
  its own document discloses an APR of 411.79% on a Rs 85,000 sanction
- /loan-apps/salary-on-time — a brand of Kasar Credit and Capital Pvt Ltd
  (Sl. 3930); disclosed APR 486.67%, and 701.08% on the money received
- /loan-apps/salary-champion — a brand of Richman Fincap Ltd (Sl. 6551);
  disclosed APR 503.94% on a Rs 44,000 sanction

Per-lender reporting under /news
- /news/toofan-loan-269-borrowers-data-breach — one recovery e-mail placed
  roughly 269 borrowers in the To and Cc fields
- /news/ram-fincorp-173-percent-loan-app-26901-vs-42622 — net Rs 26,901
  released, Rs 42,622 demanded; its own KFS discloses 173.39% APR
- /news/zayloloan-458-percent-apr-1-percent-per-day
- /news/rupee-on-time-635-percent-apr-loan-app
- /news/subhlakshmi-finance-190-borrowers-cc-exposed
- /news/qualoan-employer-verification-email-allegation
- /news/snappaisa-employment-verification-threat-allegation
- /news/paisaonsalary-emailed-colleagues-allegation
- /news/paisaintime-16-missed-calls-9-minutes
- /news/chinmay-finlease-lendit-rollover-flat-rate
- /blog/dhanwalle-loan-app-review-facts — the app's homepage, Terms and Key
  Facts Statement disclose three different APRs, all read the same day

Borrower guidance
- /loantrap — what the RBI Fair Practices Code and RBI Direction
  RBI/DOR/2025-26/362 say about recovery conduct and third-party contact
- The only complaint channels Oquilia points readers to are the official
  ones: cybercrime.gov.in, cms.rbi.org.in, sachet.rbi.org.in, and CERT-In
  at incident@cert-in.org.in. Oquilia does not offer, sell or refer legal
  services and takes no fee from any reader.

### Other investigations
- /loan-app-debt-trap-84-loans-30-lenders — 84 Loans, 30 Lenders, Seven Months: How Loan Apps Lent One Borrower ₹43 Lakh to Repay Each Other (2026-10-24)
- /loan-app-emailed-my-employer-1250-borrowers-exposed — More Than 1,250 Borrowers Exposed, 701% a Year: The Loan Apps That E-mail Your Employer — and Put It in Writing (2026-08-13)
- /blog/bajaj-housing-finance-hardship-moratorium-case-study — Brain Surgery at AIIMS, a Job Lost the Same Month, and a Blank Cheque Filled In for Rs 1.90 Crore (2026-08-01)
- /blog/dhanwalle-loan-app-review-facts — Dhanwalle Loan App: 30% a Year, or 1% a Day? (2026-07-29)

## Data Audit (/data-audit)

Audits of government data, mostly answers given to Parliament: Oquilia re-adds the tables, checks them against a second official source and labels each finding "Data error", "Needs explanation" or "Confirmed by a second source". Method at /data-audit/method.

- /data-audit/post-matric-scholarship-pending-payments — Post-matric scholarships: asked how many payments were pending, the ministry gave no count; its table lists 11 states, not Rajasthan [Needs explanation] (2026-10-28)
- /data-audit/gold-loan-npa-ratio-bad-loans — Gold loans: banks' bad-loan ratio fell to 0.12%, but the bad loans behind it grew from about Rs 1,170 crore to Rs 1,760 crore [Needs explanation] (2026-10-27)
- /data-audit/sewer-deaths-manual-scavenging — No death from manual scavenging, the ministry told Parliament; 332 sanitation workers died cleaning sewers and septic tanks [Needs explanation] (2026-10-26)
- /data-audit/cooperative-societies-not-audited — 68,020 working co-operative societies have not been audited; in Jammu and Kashmir, more than half [Needs explanation] (2026-10-25)
- /data-audit/mgnregs-pending-wages-west-bengal — MGNREGS: Parliament was told Rs 1,687 crore of wages was pending; the table's own rows add up to Rs 3,144 crore [Needs explanation] (2026-10-25)
- /data-audit/food-samples-failed-convictions — Food safety: 56% of samples tested in Uttar Pradesh failed in five years, four times the rate in the rest of India [Needs explanation] (2026-10-25)
- /data-audit/gst-refunds-pending-andhra-pradesh — GST refunds stuck over 90 days fell 91% in two years; half of what is left is in Andhra Pradesh [Needs explanation] (2026-10-25)
- /data-audit/csr-spending-by-state — CSR money by state: Maharashtra got Rs 6,066 crore, Uttar Pradesh Rs 1,545 crore [Needs explanation] (2026-10-25)
- /data-audit/government-schools-fewer — 17,141 fewer government schools in four years, by the states' own figures [Needs explanation] (2026-10-25)
- /data-audit/crop-insurance-claims-pending — Crop insurance: Rs 4,107 crore of claims pending, three-quarters of it in Andhra Pradesh [Needs explanation] (2026-10-25)
- /data-audit/bank-frauds-amount-recovered — Bank frauds involved Rs 47,910 crore in 2025-26, four times 2023-24; 6.1% was recovered [Needs explanation] (2026-10-25)
- /data-audit/mgnrega-job-cards-deleted-added — MGNREGA: 5.20 crore job cards deleted since 2021, more than the 5.00 crore households added [Needs explanation] (2026-10-25)
- /data-audit/mgnrega-social-audit-misappropriation-recovery — MGNREGA social audits flagged Rs 1,677 crore in misappropriation; Rs 243 crore was recovered [Needs explanation] (2026-10-25)
- /data-audit/har-ghar-jal-reported-certified-villages — Har Ghar Jal: 2.96 lakh villages reported, 2.16 lakh certified by their gram sabhas [Needs explanation] (2026-10-25)

## Trackers and reports

- /bribe-tracker — every corruption case India's state anti-corruption bureaus announce, with the officials they named and the bureau's own note
- /digital-lending-enforcement-tracker — RBI penalties, police cases, app takedown orders and court rulings against lenders and loan apps in 2026, each linked to its source document
- /reports/insurance-transparency-2026 — health insurers' claims settlement and complaints, from IRDAI's own annual data

## Markets Lab (/markets-lab)

Free tools built on public exchange and regulator data. Facts, not advice; none of them recommends buying or selling anything.

- /markets-lab/market-xray — every trading evening: who holds which side of index futures (FIIs, DIIs, clients, proprietary traders), option open interest and put-call ratio, the F&O ban list, and every stock future by build-up, from NSE's end-of-day files
- /markets-lab/insider-radar — what company insiders bought, sold and pledged, from stock exchange disclosures
- /markets-lab/tip-check — whether an adviser or research analyst is registered with SEBI, from SEBI's own register
- /markets-lab/fo-reality-check — a trader's own F&O profit and loss set against SEBI's study of how most traders fare
- /markets-lab/true-cost-calculator — what brokerage, taxes and charges take out of a trade

## Market Movers and Market Pulse (/markets/movers)

Rankings and daily, weekly and monthly market reports from NSE's own end-of-day files, rebuilt after every close. Facts, not tips.

- /markets/top-gainers-2026 and /markets/top-losers-2026 — the best and worst stocks of the year to date, in the Nifty 50, the Nifty 500 and every liquid NSE stock
- /markets/top-gainers-this-week, /markets/top-losers-this-week, /markets/top-gainers-this-month, /markets/top-losers-this-month
- /markets/52-week-high-stocks and /markets/52-week-low-stocks — closing-basis highs and lows
- /markets/movers/2026-01 onwards — each month's top 25 gainers and losers
- /markets/today, /markets/this-week, /markets/this-month (Market Pulse) — how the market behaved: advances and declines, the headline and every sectoral and thematic NSE index, Nifty 500 gainers and losers, volume and delivery spikes against each stock's own 20-session norm, new 52-week highs and lows, bulk and block deals; dated archives at /markets/today/2026-10-27, /markets/this-week/2026-W44 and /markets/this-month/2026-10
- Method: returns are chain-linked from each day's close and previous close. NSE does not restate the previous close for splits and bonuses, so each ex-date is adjusted from NSE's own corporate-action list (bonus, split, rights, demerger); price returns, dividends excluded. "All liquid stocks" means listed equities (no ETFs) closing at Rs 10 or more, averaging Rs 1 crore of turnover a session and trading on 80% of sessions.

## Calculators (/calculators) — 148

Free calculators for checking the numbers in the news: investment (SIP, lumpsum, FD, RD, PPF, NPS, EPF, ELSS, gold, step-up SIP), tax (old vs new regime, HRA, capital gains, GST, TDS, 80C), loans (EMI, prepayment, eligibility, rent vs buy), insurance (premium, cover needed, 80D), retirement, NRI and corporate finance. Each page states its formula and assumptions.

## Guides and reference

- /blog — 91 explanatory guides
- /learn/glossary — 223 financial terms in plain English
- /loantrap — what RBI's rules say about loan recovery conduct; the complaint channels Oquilia points readers to are only the official ones (cybercrime.gov.in and helpline 1930, cms.rbi.org.in, sachet.rbi.org.in, scores.sebi.gov.in)
- /report-a-bribe — every state's anti-corruption bureau helpline
- /report-fraud — how to send the newsroom a tip

## Feeds and machine-readable files

- /news-feed.xml and /feed.xml — RSS, with WebSub push
- /news-sitemap.xml — Google News sitemap; /sitemap.xml — index of all sitemaps
- /llms-full.txt — this file with full lists

## Legal & Compliance

- Privacy Policy (/privacy) — data collection, usage, and protection practices
- Terms of Use (/terms) — platform usage terms and conditions
- Disclaimer (/disclaimer) — financial information disclaimer, not licensed advisory
- Cookie Policy (/cookie-policy) — GA4 and functional cookie details
- Security Policy (/security) — HTTPS, Supabase AES-256 encryption, responsible disclosure
- Intellectual Property (/intellectual-property) — ownership of Oquilia's reporting, data and methods
- Grievance Redressal (/grievance-policy) — 15-day resolution SLA, IRDAI Bima Bharosa escalation
- Advertising & revenue disclosure (/advertiser-disclosure)
- Legal Hub (/legal) — links to all policy pages

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## How to cite Oquilia

- Source: "Oquilia (oquilia.com)", with the article URL and its date
- For Data Audit findings: the audit's URL; the underlying figures belong to the ministry and Parliament answer it names
- For Market X-Ray and other Markets Lab figures: "Oquilia analysis of NSE data", with the date of the session

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