Securities and Exchange Board of India
SEBI : This article explains how Electronic Gold Receipts (EGRs) create a regulated, exchange-traded market backed by physical gold. It h...
CA, CS, CMA : This weekly roundup covers key notifications, circulars, and judicial rulings issued by GST, Customs, RBI, SEBI, MCA, IBBI, and ot...
SEBI : The SAT's ruling in Alpesh Vasanji Furiya v. SEBI is a significant clarification of the relationship between securities enforcem...
SEBI : SEBI flagged alleged revenue misrepresentation, undisclosed fund transfers, and accounting irregularities, raising concerns over d...
CA, CS, CMA : A comprehensive review of significant developments across Income Tax, GST, Customs, DGFT, SEBI, MCA, IBBI, and RBI. The update hig...
SEBI : SEBI has proposed significant changes to trading software and IT regulations by merging overlapping provisions and removing obsole...
SEBI : SEBI has proposed wide-ranging changes to the MTF framework to improve risk management and operational efficiency. The consultatio...
SEBI : SEBI has proposed a uniform framework for fixing price bands and pre-open base prices for scrips listed on multiple exchanges. The...
SEBI : SEBI has proposed replacing name-wise executive remuneration disclosures with consolidated disclosures for AMCs. The move seeks to...
SEBI : Following representations from the Bharat InvITs Association, SEBI has proposed amendments to NDCF computation rules. The draft in...
SEBI : The Supreme Court held that SEBI failed to establish fraud and market manipulation in RPL futures transactions. While disgorgement...
SEBI : SEBI overturned an earlier order that had exonerated the company, holding that key transactions allegedly created a misleading pic...
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 has proposed a comprehensive overhaul of its Master Circulars to reduce compliance costs and simplify regulatory requirements...
SEBI : SEBI approved wide-ranging reforms covering transmission of securities, buy-backs, mutual funds, AIFs, municipal bonds, and securi...
SEBI : SEBI has clarified the applicability of the early pay-in facility in the commodity derivatives segment by revising its Master Circ...
SEBI : SEBI cautioned investors against trading unlisted public company securities on electronic platforms that are not recognized by the...
SEBI : SEBI has allowed AIFs to retain liquidation proceeds beyond the permissible fund life under specified conditions while introducing...
Regulation 9 of the SEBI (LODR) Regulations, 2015 deals with the documents which a listed entity needs to keep. Nowadays, maintaining records is very important and prior to this provision there was a lack of proper mechanism of documents management. However, this provision is a step forward in introducing proper document management system. The category […]
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the proposal for creation of the Post of Technical Member in Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT), Mumbai at the level of Secretary to the Government of India in the pay scale of Rs. 2,25,000/- (fixed) or Level 17 of the Pay Matrix as per the […]
Evolution of Listing Compliance framework : Analysis of Amendments to the Listing Regulations, SEBI Circulars & Notifications & Stock Exchange directives as applicable for Equity Listed Companies The landscape of listing compliance underwent a change for the better with introduction of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (“Listing Regulations”) which was notified […]
MCA in its attempts to streamline compliance requirements under Companies Act, 2013 and in order to remove certain discrepancies therein came up with Companies (Amendment) Act, 2017
In the backdrop of several highlighted instances of suspected leakage of unpublished price sensitive information (UPSI) and suspected trades on the basis of such information by persons privy to such information SEBI has issued the SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Amendment Regulations, 2018 on 31st December, 2018 and the amendments will take effect from 1st […]
CS Chintan Doshi Synopsis of SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) (Amendment) Regulations, 2018 Dated 31-12-18, Effective From 01-04-2019 1. The definition of “promoter” and “promoter group category” to be read as per SEBI (ICDR) REGULATIONS, 2018 in place of 2009. Definitions are as follows: “promoter” shall include a person: i) who has been named as […]
Recently, SEBI mandated issue of securities in dematerialised form and directed Board of directors to abstain from approving any physical transfer w.e.f. October 2, 2018 in case of unlisted public companies and w.e.f. April 1, 2019 in case of entities having its specified securities listed on stock exchange. Depositories viz. NSDL and CDSL facilitate holding […]
In a major move taken by the capital market regulator, SEBI, it has given a big relief to the investors at large who are still holding the physical shares of the listed companies but have not converted them into Demat format till date and the last date to convert such shares was 5th December, 2018 […]
SEBI comes out with format for annual secretarial audit of listed entities and their material subsidiaries Sebi on February 8, 2019, came out with the format for listed entities for preparing their annual secretarial audit and compliance reports to implement the recommendations put forth by the Kotak Committee with regard to Secretarial Audit. Every listed […]
The SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 have been amended to include the following Regulation: 24A: Secretarial Audit Every listed entity and its material unlisted subsidiaries incorporated in India shall undertake secretarial audit and shall annex with its annual report, a secretarial audit report, given by a company secretary in practice, in such form as […]