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 ...
Prudential Assurance Company Ltd. (Prudential) is a foreign company incorporated in United Kingdom and is engaged in the business of Insurance. Prudential registered with the Securities and Exchange Board of India as a sub-account of a Foreign Institutional Investor (FII).
The controversy surrounding the regulation of unit-linked insurance policies (Ulips) has failed to deter investors from holding on to their products or even getting new ones. At least the service tax collections from the product during April-May this fiscal bears testimony to the Ulip’s undeniable popularity. Service tax collections during the April-May is almost double the amount realised during the same period last year.
Among the legal questions clouding the merger of Bank of Rajasthan with ICICI Bank is whether the Tayals’ shares, lying in a demat account frozen on SEBI directions, can be extinguished.A SEBI order, this March, restrained 100 entities, including BoR promoters — the Tayals — “from accessing the securities market and further buying, selling or dealing in securities in any manner whatsoever, with immediate effect, until further directions.”
Market regulator SEBI has asked the mutual fund (MF) houses to submit reports, pertaining to compliance with a recent rule that dividends be paid only from realised gains and not premium income, by June 17.
If the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has its way, persons investing in mutual funds must have their own demat accounts. Sebi has sought suggestions on this issue from the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) which are to be provided by June 15.
Hit hard by the mass exodus of investors, amounting to an average of over 1 lakh a month, the mutual fund houses are knocking on the doors of Sebi, which in turn, is mulling over possible remedial actions including an expanded distribution model for these investment products.
Market regulator SEBI today imposed a penalty of Rs 1 crore on Manmohan Shetty, the former chairman of media company Adlabs Films, for allegedly violating insider trading norms. Shetty was accused of selling shares of the company within 24 hours of making public the information on demerger of the FM Radio Business from Adlabs, an action against insider trading norms.
The government’s decision to enforce a minimum 25% public holding in all listed companies should be put on hold for another three months, said Hari S Bhartia, president of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He said there are a lot of grey areas that need to be cleared first.
The changes in the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules will not only create a huge supply of fresh papers in the current fiscal but will also impact the pricing of the large public issues such as Coal India and BSNL. The amendments will also bring the Indian promoters of insurance joint ventures legally at par with their foreign counterpart,
The Union finance ministry plans to define any equity placement prior to an Initial Public Offer as promoter shareholding for the purpose of calculating minimum public float. The new definition will be part of an amendment to the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules, 1957, that would prescribe a minimum public float of 25 per cent in all companies irrespective of their size or ownership status.
