<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Indian Banking Ecosystem: Complete Knowledge Base: changelog</title><link>https://ibs.neerajprem.in/changelog/</link><description>What changed on the site and when.</description><language>en-in</language><item><title>About the author</title><link>https://ibs.neerajprem.in/changelog/#cl-2026-10-15-about</link><guid isPermaLink="false">2026-10-15-about</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Added an About the author page and a byline on every page. Fixed the desktop header, where the Reference menu overlapped the Search button at common screen widths.</description></item><item><title>Site framework and design system</title><link>https://ibs.neerajprem.in/changelog/#cl-2026-09-29-scaffold</link><guid isPermaLink="false">2026-09-29-scaffold</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Built the site framework: navigation, search, light and dark themes, the fact and citation system, glossary tooltips and diagram components. First pages: Payment rails (introduction), Core banking system architecture and Messaging and streaming.</description></item><item><title>Complete first edition</title><link>https://ibs.neerajprem.in/changelog/#cl-2026-09-29-release</link><guid isPermaLink="false">2026-09-29-release</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Added High-volume systems, Build versus buy (with a decision scorer), Limitations and known problems, Regulators and mandates, the RBI ecosystem with a relationship map and eleven institution pages, and glossary search. Every fact on the site is now verified against an opened source.</description></item><item><title>Architecture section</title><link>https://ibs.neerajprem.in/changelog/#cl-2026-09-29-stage4b</link><guid isPermaLink="false">2026-09-29-stage4b</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Published all nine architecture topics: core banking, payments, API-first and open banking, event-driven design, data, legacy modernisation, security, multi-data-centre and disaster recovery, and hybrid cloud. Each has diagrams, trade-offs, failure modes and design-review questions. Added what RBI's 2023 IT governance Direction actually requires for disaster recovery: banks define their own recovery targets, aim for near-zero data loss on critical systems and run half-yearly drills.</description></item><item><title>Fact ledger and corrections</title><link>https://ibs.neerajprem.in/changelog/#cl-2026-09-29-fact-ledger</link><guid isPermaLink="false">2026-09-29-fact-ledger</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Built the sourced fact ledger. Corrected the cheque clearing section: RBI postponed Phase 2 of continuous clearing on 24 December 2025 and changed the session hours. Updated the UPI headline figure to August 2026.</description></item><item><title>Technologies section</title><link>https://ibs.neerajprem.in/changelog/#cl-2026-09-29-stage4c</link><guid isPermaLink="false">2026-09-29-stage4c</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Published all twelve technology topics, from core banking platforms and databases to machine learning and payment-specific technology, each with a landscape table, guidance on choosing, trade-offs, pitfalls and design-review questions. Added RBI's 2025 rules for authenticating digital payments, and noted that RBI's guidance on AI and model risk is still in draft.</description></item><item><title>Home, Core systems and Payment rails</title><link>https://ibs.neerajprem.in/changelog/#cl-2026-09-29-stage4a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">2026-09-29-stage4a</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Published the full Payment rails and Core systems pages and rebuilt the home page. New: a gross-versus-net settlement example, a step-by-step UPI explainer, UPI limits, the rules for fixing failed payments, card tokenisation, Account Aggregators and a guide to which rail suits which job.</description></item></channel></rss>