Securities and Exchange Board of India
CA, CS, CMA : Major rulings and notifications clarified tax treatment, compliance timelines, and financial regulations. The updates emphasize ef...
SEBI : Regulation 31A lays down strict eligibility and compliance requirements for promoter reclassification. The key takeaway is that lo...
CA, CS, CMA : The update discusses GST rulings on ITC and refunds, income tax relief interpretations, and insolvency reforms. It also covers dis...
Income Tax : Explains how commission-driven incentives in banks lead to mis-selling of financial products. Highlights the need for structural r...
SEBI : Explains mandatory quarterly disclosures under SEBI LODR, including financial results, governance reports, and shareholding patter...
SEBI : The consultation highlights that existing net worth calculations based on retained client funds are no longer effective. A revised...
SEBI : The draft circular addresses issues in managing unpaid client securities and proposes changes to the existing pledge framework. It...
Finance : The agreements introduce structured protocols for intelligence sharing and monitoring compliance under PMLA. The ruling highlights...
SEBI : The issue involved misuse of telecom resources in financial scams. The MoU establishes real-time data sharing to enable early dete...
SEBI : The issue concerns multiple filings of the same disclosures on different stock exchanges. The framework enables a single filing sy...
SEBI : The issue was whether failure to refund investor funds is time-barred. The Court held it is a continuing offence, rejecting the li...
Company Law : Supreme Court held that diversion of funds raised through preferential allotment for purposes other than those stated in offer doc...
SEBI : Calcutta High Court directs SEBI to accept Priya Ranjan Sah's payment, citing a one-day delay as not warranting prolonged litigati...
SEBI : SEBI penalty on Deccan Chronicle's Company Secretary overturned. Tribunal rules Company Secretary not responsible for verifying au...
SEBI : SEBI prosecutes directors of Gujarat Arth Ltd for market manipulation and fraudulent trading under SEBI Act....
SEBI : The issue was compliance timeline under amended DT regulations. SEBI extended the deadline to October 2026 due to implementation c...
SEBI : The event underscored that increasing retail participation must be matched with stronger investor awareness and safeguards. It emp...
SEBI : SEBI addressed concerns over high funding costs caused by gross settlement requirements. It permitted netting for outright transac...
SEBI : SEBI clarified that only a body corporate can act as a sponsor under MF Regulations 2026. A family trust, not being a body corpora...
SEBI : SEBI reduced the threshold under Regulation 10(c) from ₹2 lakh to ₹1,000, easing compliance requirements. The move simplifies ...
To enable ease of doing business, the taxation framework for Alternative Investment Funds (AIF) provide pass-through status to profits of the AIF (Category I and Category II) to the investors under which any income, barring business income, earned by AIFs would be exempt in the hands of such AIFs, and taxable directly in the hands of its investor(s).
The regulation was notified on 15.01.2015 and came into effect on the 120th day after being notified i.e 15.05.2015 In general terms Insider trading is defined as, ‘the illegal practice of trading on the stock exchange to one’s own advantage through having access to unpublished price sensitive information.’ Section 195 of Companies Act, 2013 (omitted […]
Provision of Escrow under SEBI (SAST) Regulations, 2011 1. Regulation 17(1) Not later than 2 working days prior to the DPA of open offer for acquiring shares, the acquirer shall create an escrow account in respect of security for performance of his obligations under these regulations and deposit in the escrow account amount as such. […]
1. These regulations may be called the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2020. 2. They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
THE INSTITUTE OF Company Secretaries of India IN PURSUANT OF PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE Statutory body under an act of parliament (Under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Corporate Affairs) ICSI:PFP: 2020 July 29, 2020 Ms. Barnali Mukherjee Chief General Manager Corporate Finance Department Securities and Exchange Board of India SEBI Bhavan, Plot No.C4-A, ‘G’ Block Bandra Kurla […]
Conditional Offers 1. Regulation 19(1) Acquirer may make offer which is conditional as to the minimum level of acceptance; 2. Proviso to Regulation 19(1) Where an open offer is subject to an agreement such agreement shall stipulate a condition to the effect that in the event the desire level of acceptance of open offer not […]
Steps to be followed after filling Letter of offer with SEBI under SEBI (SAST) Regulations 2011 1 Regulation 18(1) After filling the draft letter offer with SEBI under regulation 16(1), the acquirer shall send a copy of draft letter of offer to target company at its registered office address and to all the stock exchanges […]
1. Regulation 14(1) The PA shall be sent to all the stock exchange where the shares of the Target company are listed, and the stock exchange immediately communicates such information to the public. 2. Regulation 14(2) The PA shall be send to Board and to the target company at its registered office within 1 working day of […]
SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 2011 – [SEBI (SAST) Regulations 2011] 1. Regulation 12(1) Before PA, acquirer shall appoint a Merchant Banker, who is not associate of the acquirer, as manager to open offer. 2. Regulation 12(2) The Acquirer through such manger to open offer shall made the PA of open offer […]
If TM / CM collects minimum 20% upfront margin in lieu of VaR and ELM from the client, then penalty for short-collection / non-collection of margin shall not be applicable. However, it is reiterated that Clearing Corporation shall continue to collect the upfront margin from the TM / CM based on VaR and 2.2 The penalty provision for short-collection / non-collection of upfront margin in cash segment shall be implemented with effect from September 01, 2020.
