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Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is considering allowing companies to allocate the unused quota in public offers exclusively to retail investors. The move is expected to further increase retail participation in government offers where the employee quota is usually undersubscribed while retail is oversold because of good pricing. "A proposal is under examination," a SEBI official told ET. Full Article

Retail investors will get to double their bets on initial public offerings as the market regulator is set to raise the limit to Rs 2 lakh, the first revision in five years, as it attempts to keep pace with the eroding value of the rupee. The proposal Full Article

an effective enforcement of provisions like 397/398 of the Act and the protection of rights of all shareholders without any scope for misuse or abuse is very important for the growth of industry or the corporate world. It is true that we have good regulations regulating the functioning of listed public companies, but, a good focus also to be made on the regulations governing private limited companies and especially the rights of shareholders in a private limited companie.. Full Article

The market watchdog Sebi today extended the ASBA (application supported blocked amount) facility to corporate investors and high networth individuals (HNIs) to enable them to apply for IPOs or rights issue by keeping the application money in their bank accounts till allotment. Currently, this facility is available only to retail investors. Full Article

Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) said it wants to bring down the time required for IPO processing to seven days from 20 days at present over the next one year. While pointing to the fact that the primary market issuance process is not as efficient assecondary market in India, SEBI chairman CB Bhave said, “We need to do something there. Currently it takes 20 days for an IPO to get listed after its closure. The delay in listing is a risk tha.. Full Article

Markets regulator SEBI has decided to allow companies to auction their shares in a follow-on public offer (FPO) to qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) at differential prices above the floor, while retail investors will get shares at the floor price. Full Article

The Securities and Exchange Board of India on Monday proposed changes to the way public share offerings are done, spelt out guidelines SEBI rules for smaller companies to raise capital through share sales, and called for more disclosures from listed companies to prevent delayed shocks in the form of holes in the books of accounts. Full Article

On Tuesday, Sebi Chairman CB Bhave met chief executive officers (CEOs) of all fund houses to take stock of the ground realities after the new guidelines.Industry sources said while the fund houses explained that the industry was still in a nascent stage and imposition of stringent guidelines would stifle its growth, the market regulator told [...] Full Article