| SEBI | Regulatory body threatening Mauritus-based funds with penalties for withholding shareholding details related to Adani Group.(abbrv) (4) |
| ELARA | Name of the two Mauritius-based funds - India Opportunities Fund and Vespera Fund - withholding shareholding details related to Adani Group. (5) |
| IRA | Savings plan with penalties for early withdrawal: Abbr. |
| PUNITIVE | Concerned with penalties |
| OFSTED | Acronym for English regulatory body for education (6) |
| BARCOUNCIL | Regulatory body for barristers in England and Wales founded in 1894 (3,7) |
| IPSO | UK's largest regulatory body for newspapers and magazines, established in 2014 (1,1,1,1) |
| LIQUID | Such an easy source of funds, with one pound left at first |
| ODIOUS | It's unpleasant lacking funds with financial liabilities |
| CHIPPINGIN | Contributing to the funds with one's gambling counters? (8,2) |
| SLOOP | To get the boat back, combines funds with (5) |
| REIMBURSE | Put one back in funds with one Burmese rupee maybe (9) |
| SAFETYNET | Wayward teen, say, receiving first of funds with time as form of protection (6,3) |
| BENEFITSOCIETY | Community fund with no fee Betty is working for, getting about a hundred (7,7) |
| PLAN | Retirement ___ (fund with money set aside for the future) |
| SAVES | Liberates funds with lay-bys |
| CHICAGO | U.S. auto-pollution regulatory body, briefly (1,1,1) |
| OFCOM | Abbreviation of the regulatory body chaired by Dame Patricia Hodgson (5) |
| RBI | India's central bank and regulatory body (abbr.) |
| DGCA | Regulatory body investigating the runway excursion incident of the Air India flight in Mumbai.(abbvr.) (4) |
