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 ...
Prosecutions have been filed in 110 cases for violations of various provisions of the Companies Act, 1956,” the minister said in a written reply to a question on the issue of vanishing companies. A Coordination and Monitoring Committee (CMC), co-chaired by MCA Secretary and Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman, is looking into the issue of vanishing companies, their promoters and monitoring the progress of action taken against them.
If the Satyam and Orchid Chemicals and Pharma episodes are any indication, promoters pledging shares can be an extremely sordid affair and can leave ordinary investors in the lurch. But promoters, unperturbed, continue to pledge a large chunk of their stake with banks and financial institutions. The pledged shares in some cases touch 20% to […]
The new chief executive officer of fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services sold 40,000 shares of the company in the days before the previous board’s aborted decision to buy two related firms, stock exchange data shows. A.S. Murty was named chief executive with immediate effect by the new government-appointed board on Thursday, Satyam said in a statement […]
Minister of corporate affairs Prem Chand Gupta on Wednesday stressed on the need for greater steps by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) in restoring the confidence of investors and shareholders, which has been affected in the wake of the Satyam accounting fraud. “What is required is further measures to restore public confidence,” […]
Even as the Centre has launched a damage control exercise over the Satyam Computer Services scandal, in a startling disclosure, India’s stock exchanges have revealed that as many as 1,317 listed companies have not filed their corporate governance report for the quarter ended September 30, 2008.
Amid speculation of engineering giant L&T’s, which has raised its stake in Satyam Computer to 12 per cent, bid to take over the IT major, market regulator SEBI on Wednesday said anyone can approach it to seek relaxation in the open offer pricing norms. “Anybody can approach SEBI (with regard to relaxation in the open […]
India’s Supreme Court has given the country’s financial markets regulator permission to question Ramalinga Raju, the founder of Satyam Computer Services (SATY.BO), which is at the centre of the country’s biggest corporate scandal, court officials said on Tuesday. The court said officials from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) could interrogate Raju and […]
1.0 It has been decided to amend certain clauses in the Equity Listing Agreement to enhance disclosures regarding shareholding of promoters and promoter group. Accordingly, this circular is issued in exercise of powers conferred by subsection (1) of Section 11 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992, to protect the interest of investors in securities and to promote the development of, and to regulate the securities market. The details of amendment are as under:
Taking a leaf from Satyam scam, National Institute of Securities Market (NISM), an initiative of Sebi, has started a nationwide training programme for the internal audit of the stock brokers. The programme aims at helping the audit professionals to carry out an effective internal audit of the broker’s books in order to satisfy the requirements […]
Faced with criticism that its disciplinary machinery is only focused on errant members and not on the firm that they represent, the auditing profession regulator Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has trained the gun on audit firms now. The ICAI has written to the Securities and Exchange Board of India suggesting that the […]
