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 ...
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) today asked companies to categorically state whether shares of the custodians, against which depository receipts (DRs) are issued, belong to the promoter or non-promoter entity, a move that will have repercussion for the 25 per cent public holding norms issued recently.
Companies will now have to provide more disclosures about their shareholding pattern to the stock exchanges, with the Securities and Exchange Board of India introducing some new rules in addition to the existing ones. The decision was taken at the regulator’s board meet on Wednesday.
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has finalized and specified the Model Equity Listing Agreement for execution between the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) issuer and the Stock Exchange.
SEBI has stipulated that no entry load shall be there for any mutual fund scheme and the upfront commission to distributors will be paid by the investor directly based on the assessment of various factors including the service rendered by the distributor.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) disregarded the Finance Minister’s suggestion to “jointly seek a binding legal mandate from an appropriate High Court” on which body had jurisdiction over Unit Linked Insurance Plans (ULIPs). That is why the Government had to issue an Ordinance on the ULIPs issue. This was stated by the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
In order to ensure better compliance with the Know Your Client (KYC) norms it has been decided that with effect from August 16, 2010 such PAN non-compliant demat accounts shall also be “suspended for credit” other than the credits arising out of automatic corporate actions. It is clarified that other credits including credits from IPO/FPO/Rights issue, off-market transactions or any secondary market transactions shall not be allowed into such accounts.
As per the aforesaid regulations, the inter se relationship between the portfolio manager and client, mutual rights, liabilities and obligations relating to management of funds or portfolio of securities are specified in the agreement signed between the portfolio manager and the client.
Market regulator SEBI today extended the deadline for mutual funds to implement the ASBA facility for new fund offers to October 1. Under ASBA–Application Supported by Blocked Amount– deposits of applicants remain in their accounts till the shares are alloted.
The Takeover Advisory Committee has proposed to replace the Securities Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) (Substantial acquisition of shares and takeovers) Regulations, 1997 (“Takeover Code”) in line with international standards and changing economic environment. The Committee constituted vide SEBI order dated 4 September, 2009, under the Chairmanship of Shri C. Achuthan (former Presiding Officer of Securities Appellate Tribunal) has comprehensively re-written the Takeover Code and submitted a report to SEBI.
As part of efforts to attract more retail investors to the stock market, Sebi is considering a proposal wherein the institutional investors would be first asked to submit their bids, possibly in the first two days, and then the remaining two days would be open only for retail investors, provided the IPO is open for four days.
