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The Securities Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has said that 'in-person' verification of clients is a mandatory requirement for opening account by a depository participant (DP). This will hold good for opening trading account by a stock broker and vice versa, if the stock broker and DP is the same entity or if one of them is the holding or subsidiary company of the other, said Sebi in a note today. Full Article

Recently, the Delhi Bench of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (the Tribunal) in the case of Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. has held that the difference between the market price and the issue price of the shares offered to employees under the Employee Stock Option Scheme (ESOP) is not an allowable expenditure since the loss incurred due to issue of shares at a discount is a notional loss and such notional loss cannot be considered as an allowable expenditure under the provisi.. Full Article

All trading members of the Exchange who are registered with Association of Mutual Funds of India (AMFI) as Mutual Fund Advisors and who have signed up with the specific Asset Management Company (AMC) of a Mutual Fund are eligible to participate in the New MFSS. For this purpose, trading members shall have to register with NSEIL as Participants by submitting an Undertaking as per the format specified in Annexure 2. Full Article