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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 introduced a lighter NISM certification for Persons Associated with Investment Advice who perform only sales and other no...
SEBI : SEBI has proposed a unified advertisement framework replacing multiple entity-specific codes with a Common Advertisement Code. The...
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...
In a piquant situation, insurance regulator Irda on saturday rejected the market regulator Sebi’s ban on life insurance companies from raising funds through unit-linked insurance policies and asked them to do business as usual. Taking Sebi head on in the turf war over who would administer Ulip (unit-linked insurance products) scheme, Irda, in a surprise order, told the 14 affected life insurance companies that it has set aside the Sebi ban.
Against the backdrop of Sebi banning 14 life insurers from selling ULIPs, the insurers are likely to meet here on Monday to discuss their future course of action against the order. SEBI had, late yesterday night, banned 14 life insurance companies from selling ULIPs–insurance products that invest in equity–on the ground that they were akin to mutual funds and were launched without obtaining registration from it.
Insurance regulator IRDA on Saturday said that ULIP policies, under which a portion of funds is invested in the stock markets, are safe and secure. “Policy holders of the Unit Linked Insurance Products (ULIPs) offered by different insurance companies are assured that these policies are safe and secure”, said IRDA chairman J Hari Narayan in a release that followed market regulator Sebi banning such schemes of select companies last night.
In a significant order late on Friday, market regulator Sebi banned issuance of Unit-Linked Insurance Plans, popularly known as ULIPs, by life insurance companies. Sebi has asked 14 private insurance companies, including market leaders like SBI Life, ICICI Prudential Life and Reliance Life Insurance, not to issue any more ULIP products. The Sebi order does not cover state-owned insurance major LIC. There is no immediate clarity on the fate of existing products.
For the first time in the history of the stock market, investors who lost out on allotment of shares due to a scam will receive compensation from money recovered from scamsters. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will on Monday hand over the cheques to investors who lost out because scamsters cornered the shares meant for retail investors in initial public offerings (IPO) during 2003-05.
Securities and Exchange Board of India [SEBI] has, on 5 April 2010, directed Stock Exchanges [SE] to amend the Equity Listing Agreement [LA]. The amendments to LA puts in place of earlier decisions of SEBI Board meetings held on 22 September 2009 and 9 November 2009 and are applicable to companies listed on SE in India. The highlights of the amendments to LA are as under:
Reduces time for disclosing results; solvency position to be disclosed every 6 months. The Securities and the Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has reduced the period within which companies can announce their annual financial numbers. The regulator has also made it mandatory for all listed entities to disclose their asset-liability and solvency positions every six months.
With a view to improve transparency and corporate governance, market regulator SEBI made it mandatory for all listed companies to disclose their financial results within 45 days of the end of every quarter. Companies would also be required to disclose their audited financial statements within 60 days of every financial year end, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said while amending the equity listing agreement.
As part of its review of the existing disclosure requirements and to bring more transparency and efficiency in the governance of listed entities, SEBI has made certain amendments to the Equity Listing Agreement, vide its circular dated 05 April 2010. The key amendments relate to the following:
It is a well known canon of construction that when Court is called upon to interpret provisions of a social welfare legislation the paramount duty of the Court is to adopt such an interpretation as to further the purposes of law and if possible eschew the one which frustrates it.
