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Eighteen months after introducing India’s volatility index, or VIX, market regulator Sebi has begun its groundwork to introduce derivatives contracts, with the index as the underlying. VIX is a measure of traders’ near-term expectations of implied volatility, or IV, based on the 50 stock options prices on the Nifty index. The regulator is believed to be talking to market participants about the possibility of introducing futures and options that traders can use to bet.. Full Article

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) vide circular ref. no. MRD/DoP/Cir-05/2007 dated April 27, 2007 made PAN mandatory for all securities market transactions. Thereafter, vide circular no. MRD/DoP/ Cir-05/2009 dated May 20, 2009 it was clarified that for securities market transactions and off-market/ private transactions involving transfer of shares in physical form of listed companies, it shall be mandatory for the transferee(s) to furnish copy of PAN card.. Full Article

The framework for SLB was specified vide circular no. MRD/DoP/SE/Dep/ Cir- 14/2007 dated December 20, 2007 and was operationalised with effect from April21, 2008. The SLB framework was revised vide circular no. MRD/DoP/SE/Cir-31/2008 dated October 31, 2008. Pursuant to feedback received from market participants and proposals for revision of SLB received from NSE and BSE, the framework is now modified as under: Full Article

This is in continuation of circulars (a) No. SMD/SED/CIR/93/23321 dated November 18, 1993 specifying the norms for regulation of transactions between clients and brokers, (b) No. SEBI/MIRSD/DPS-1/Cir-31/2004 dated August 26, 2004 specifying the model format for the Member Clients Agreements, and (c) No. MRD/DoP/SE/Cir-20/2005 dated September 8, 2005 specifying the conditions for issuing electronic contract notes. Full Article

Circular No. SEBI/IMD/DOF-1/BOND/Cir-5/2009- 100% Asset Cover: To align the Listing Agreement with the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956, the amended Listing Agreement requires issuers to maintain 100% asset cover sufficient to discharge the principal amount at all times for the debt securities issued. Further, to provide more information to investors, the periodic disclosures to the stock exchange shall now require disclosure of the extent and nature of security cre.. Full Article

“We are setting up a group in the RBI and they will interact with market participants,” Gopinath said at a banking seminar here. A credit default swap is a swap contract in which the buyer of the CDS makes a series of payments to the seller and, in exchange, receives a payoff if a credit instrument goes into default. Full Article

The Reserve Bank of India has, today, placed on its website the draft guidelines on OTC Foreign Exchange Derivatives and Hedging Commodity Price Risk and Freight Risk overseas (Annex) for public comments. Full Article

Markets can now be open 9 to 5, says regulator. You could soon be able to trade for an additional two-and-a-half hours on stock exchanges with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Friday allowing trading between 9 a m and 5 p m to align timings to international standards. Full Article