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1. SEBI, vide its various communications has mandated all stock exchanges that not be more than twenty per cent of the members of the arbitration committee shall be trading members. 2. It has now been decided to do away with the representation of trading members on arbitration committee/panel of all stock exchanges. It is, henceforth, stipulated that the arbitration committee/panel shall not comprise of any trading members.
CIRCULAR No, CIR/ IMD/FII&C/3/2012, The Central Government, vide press release dated January 1, 2012 has announced its decision to allow QFIs to directly invest in Indian equity market in order to widen the class of investors, attract more foreign funds, reduce market volatility and to deepen the Indian capital market. 2. In order to facilitate the above and in consultation with the Government and RBI, it has been decided that foreign investors (termed as Qualified Foreign Investors/ QFI) who meet prescribed Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements may invest in equity shares listed on the recognized stock exchanges and in equity shares offered to public in India. In order to enable this they will hold equity shares in a demat account opened with a SEBI registered qualified Depository Participant.
SEBI regulations require that the offer document shall contain adequate disclosures so as to enable investors to take well informed investment decisions. Further, a merchant banker is required to exercise due diligence and satisfy himself about all the aspects of the issue including the veracity and adequacy of disclosures in the offer documents.
Withdrawal of the facility of re-investment – It has been decided that henceforth re-investment period shall not be allowed for all new allocations of debt limit to FIIs/sub-accounts. Thus, limits acquired in the bidding sessions henceforth shall expire/lapse on either sale or redemption at maturity of the debt investments. These limits then shall again be allocated in subsequent bidding processes.
MASTER CIRCULAR No. DNPD/1/2012, dated 2-1-2012 – The Exchange may consider introducing derivative contracts on an index, if weightage of constituent stocks of the index, which are individually eligible for derivatives trading, is atleast 80%. However, no single ineligible stock in the index shall have a weightage of more than 5% in the index. The index on which futures and options contracts are permitted shall be required to comply with the eligibility criteria on a continuous basis. The Exchange shall check whether the index continues to meet the aforesaid eligibility criteria on a monthly basis. If the index fails to meet the eligibility criteria for three consecutive months, then no fresh contract shall be issued on that index. However, the existing unexpired contracts shall be permitted to trade till expiry and new strikes may also be introduced in the existing contracts.
Circular No. DNPD/8/2011, Dated 30-12-2011 -1. It has now been decided to permit the introduction of cash settled futures on 2-year and 5-year notional coupon bearing Government of India (GoI) security on currency derivatives segment of Stock Exchanges. Eligible Stock Exchanges may do so after obtaining prior approval from SEBI.
SEBI had initiated preliminary investigations into certain recent Initial Public Offers (IPOs), on receipt of information of irregularities from various sources. Based on the findings of the preliminary investigations carried out, Shri Prashant Saran, Whole Time Member, SEBI, has passed ad interim, ex-parte orders dated December 28, 2011 in matters related to the IPOs by the following companies: PG Electroplast Limited, Brooks Laboratories Limited, RDB Rasayans Limited, Taksheel Solutions Limited, Tijaria Polypipes Limited, Onelife Capital Advisors Limited , Bharatiya Global Infomedia Limited
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 30 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (15 of 1992), the Board hereby makes the Regulations to amend the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
It is gathered from market participants that in public issues of debt securities, some brokers/distributors are passing on part of their brokerage/commission to the final investor(s) for subscription to such public issue of debt. As a result, while on one hand it is giving an unfair advantage/bargaining power to a certain set of investors and distributors, on the other hand it is adding to the cost of issuance for the company.
After doing the initial KYC of the new clients, the intermediary shall forthwith upload the KYC information on the system of the KRA and send the KYC documents i.e. KYC application form and supporting documents of the clients to the KRA within 10 working days from the date of execution of documents by the client and maintain the proof of dispatch. CIRCULAR No. MIRSD/Cir- 26 /2011 , Dated- December 23, 2011
