Insider Trading

In the wake of a spurt in allegations of questionable activities by India Inc, capital market regulator Sebi, today gave a stern warning to corporates to be on the right side and not indulge in market manipulation and insider trading. Full Article

A Pacific Heights housewife will be heading to prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to insider trading and obstruction of justice charges. In her plea agreement, Annabel McClellan says she gleaned confidential information about publicly traded companies by overhearing her husband, Arnold McClellan, then a partner at Deloitte Tax LLC, discussing details of deals he was working on. She then passed the information on to her sister, Miranda Sanders, and brother-in-law, Jame.. Full Article

Amid several instances of market manipulation , capital market regulator Sebi may tighten disclosure rules to check operators and company promoters cutting bulk trades outside the regulator’s radar, feel fund managers and brokers. It is common knowle Full Article

With the stock market moving closer to new record peaks, watchdog SEBI and the stock exchanges have enhanced their guard against manipulators. The regulating authority as well as the bourses, which act like first-stage regulators in the stock market, Full Article

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s November 2006 announcement of Rajat Kumar Gupta’s election to its board brimmed with the India native’s achievements: worldwide managing director of McKinsey & Co.; special adviser to the Secretary- General of the United Nations on management reform, co-chairman of the American India Foundation charity, whose honorary chair is former President Bill Clinton. Full Article

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs took up a comprehensive revision of the Companies Act, 1956 (the Act) in 2004 keeping in view that not only had the number of companies in India expanded from about 30,000 in 1956 to nearly 7 lakhs, Indian companies were also mobilizing resources at a scale unimaginable even a decade ago, continuously entering into and bringing new activities into the fold of the Indian economy as well as Internationally. Full Article

The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has set aside charges of insider trading against Dilip Pendse, former managing director of Tata Finance, and his wife Anuradha Pendse and Nalini Properties. “The charges of insider trading against Dilip Pendse, his wife Anuradha Pendse and Nalini Properties, a company controlled by Anuradha’s family, have been set aside by SAT,” Dilip Pendse’s advocate V M Singh said. Full Article

Market regulator SEBI has clarified on the interpretation of certain amendments in the insider trading norms, in response to a few queries from companies. The regulator said the six-month restriction for directors and employees to transact in shares of a company is only intended for trading on stock exchanges and not applicable to the exercise [...] Full Article