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From Grey Areas to Clear Lines: SEBI’s Rewriting of Insider Trading Rules for Listed Entities

SEBI : Explore SEBI's 2024-2025 amendments to insider trading regulations. Understand expanded UPSI definitions, broadened "connected per...

June 2, 2025 2040 Views 0 comment Print

SEBI Guidance on Insider Trading Contra Trade, Gifts 

SEBI : SEBI informal guidance clarifies insider trading rules on contra trade, gift transactions, and designated persons for promoters an...

May 19, 2025 2559 Views 0 comment Print

Critical Analysis of SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015

SEBI : Explore SEBI Insider Trading Regulations, 2015, addressing transparency, enforcement challenges, key provisions, global comparison...

April 30, 2025 2160 Views 0 comment Print

SEBI amends UPSI Definition: Can Companies Still Defend against UPSI Claims?

SEBI : SEBI's 2025 amendment expands UPSI events, but companies can still defend that specific events are not UPSI based on facts, circum...

April 29, 2025 1377 Views 0 comment Print

Understanding Insider Trading in Indian Stock Market

SEBI : This paper will deal with the basics of Insider Trading in Indian perspective. what does it mean how it evolves over the period al...

April 13, 2025 1506 Views 0 comment Print


Latest News


SEBI’s Proposed Review of UPSI Definition under insider trading Regulations

SEBI : SEBI seeks public comments on revising the UPSI definition under Insider Trading Regulations for better clarity and compliance. De...

November 10, 2024 1944 Views 0 comment Print

SEBI Proposes Changes to Insider Trading Rules on Connected Persons & Relatives

SEBI : SEBI proposes changes to definition of connected person and relative under Insider Trading Regulations to enhance enforcement agai...

October 19, 2024 1023 Views 0 comment Print

SEBI Proposes Amendments to Insider Trading Regulations

SEBI : SEBI seeks public comments on proposed amendments to the Insider Trading Regulations, aiming to expand the definition of connected...

July 29, 2024 1200 Views 0 comment Print

SEBI Consultation: Enhancing Flexibility in Insider Trading Regulations

SEBI : Explore SEBI's proposal for flexible 'Trading Plans' under Insider Trading Regulations. Review recommendations, comment on changes...

November 24, 2023 1269 Views 0 comment Print

Consultation Paper on proposed review of Insider Trading Regulations, 2015

SEBI : Consultation Paper on proposed review of the definition of Unpublished Price Sensitive Information (UPSI) under SEBI (Prohibition ...

May 19, 2023 2091 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Analysis of SEBI Vs. Abhijit Rajan (Supreme Court of India)

SEBI : Supreme Court's landmark ruling in SEBI v. Abhijit Ranjan clarifies insider trading laws, emphasizing the importance of profit mot...

March 10, 2024 5316 Views 0 comment Print

Possessing price-sensitive information without an attempt to take advantage is not insider trading

SEBI : Supreme Court held that mere possession of price-sensitive information doesnt prove that the person was indulged in insider tradin...

September 19, 2022 1725 Views 0 comment Print

SAT Lifts Restrictions Imposed on Infosys Employee in insider trading case

SEBI : Pranshu Bhutra Vs SEBI (Securities Appellate Tribunal Mumbai) 1. The present appeal has been filed questioning the confirmatory or...

May 13, 2022 1362 Views 0 comment Print

Presumption of insider trading in absence of adequate material unsustainable

SEBI : Balram Garg Vs Securities And Exchange Board of India (Supreme Court of India) Facts- P. Chand Jeweller Pvt. Ltd. was incorporate...

April 25, 2022 2160 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


PFRDA Aligns NPS Investments with SEBI Rules as Insider Trading Regulation Falls Under SEBI Domain

Corporate Law : The circular clarifies that SEBI regulations on insider trading, self-dealing, and front running will apply to all NPS investment ...

May 5, 2026 456 Views 0 comment Print

SEBI Clarifies Insider Trading Rules on ESOP Pledge Release

SEBI : SEBI clarified that pledging/revoking a pledge is a 'trade' under PIT Regulations. Revocation and subsequent sale of ESOS shares t...

November 4, 2025 1398 Views 0 comment Print

SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) (Amendment) Regulations, 2025

SEBI : SEBI introduces amendments to Insider Trading Regulations 2025, refining definitions and disclosure requirements for improved mark...

March 11, 2025 6021 Views 0 comment Print

Gifting of Shares falls under Insider Trading Regulations: SEBI

SEBI : Summary of SEBI's informal guidance to Century Plyboards on insider trading rules, clarifying contra trade for gifts and share tra...

February 7, 2025 2988 Views 0 comment Print

SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2024

SEBI : SEBI amends Insider Trading regulations in December 2024, broadening the scope of "connected person" and "relative" to enhance mar...

December 4, 2024 8037 Views 0 comment Print


Significance of Mens Rea in Insider Trading

February 21, 2023 2820 Views 0 comment Print

SEBI has powers under section 11 and 30 of SEBI Act, 1992 to intervene in matters of insider trading and also implement restrictions to limit these activities.

Insider Trading & Frontrunning by Connected Persons of Mutual Fund Companies

February 4, 2023 3039 Views 0 comment Print

Insider trading, is the malpractice of selling or buying securities such as equity and bonds by the based on the unpublished information shared by insiders of a company, which includes the employees, directors, executives and promoters or any connected person of the company.

Mutual Fund Units now under ambit of SEBI PIT Regulations

November 26, 2022 3723 Views 0 comment Print

Stay informed about the recent amendment that brings mutual fund units under the purview of SEBI PIT Regulations. Understand the impact and implications of this change on insider trading regulations.

SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading), Regulations, 1992

November 11, 2022 7311 Views 0 comment Print

Uncover the regulations surrounding insider trading and the prohibition of using confidential information for personal gain in the securities market.

Profit Motive Essential to prove insider trading, mere possession of unpublished price sensitive information not enough: SC

September 25, 2022 1881 Views 0 comment Print

Supreme Court in the Securities and Exchange Board of India v. Abhijit Rajan also accepted the importance of motive of the insider to make undeserved gain by encashing on the UPSI that he possessed.

Possessing price-sensitive information without an attempt to take advantage is not insider trading

September 19, 2022 1725 Views 0 comment Print

Supreme Court held that mere possession of price-sensitive information doesnt prove that the person was indulged in insider trading. There must be an attempt to take advantage of or encash the benefit of the information so possessed.

Gist of Insider Trading Regulation

August 14, 2022 18927 Views 1 comment Print

Understand the gist of insider trading regulation in India and its important terminologies. Learn about the implementation stages and key dates.

Disclosure of Transaction of Shares not required to be made to SEBI

August 10, 2022 534 Views 0 comment Print

Disclosures relating to acquisition/disposal of securities by promoter, member of promoter group, designated persons and Directors of company are required to be made only to Stock Exchanges

Critiquing Insider Trading’s Presumption of Guilt Model: The fallacy of not examining mens rea

August 9, 2022 3282 Views 0 comment Print

Insider Trading has been argued to be unjust and based in opportunism. It has also been argued that although insider trading may be unjust, it cannot be considered to be fraud.

Applicability of Insider Trading Regulations to Mutual Fund units

July 9, 2022 2052 Views 0 comment Print

In the past, it was observed that a Registrar and Transfer Agent of a Mutual Fund had redeemed all its units from a scheme, being privy to certain sensitive information pertaining to scheme of Mutual Fund

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