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...
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 […]
The Parliamentary standing committee on Finance, headed by BJP member of parliament Ananth Kumar, has convened a meeting on Wednesday to examine the crisis sparked by the fraud in Satyam Computer Services. This could lead to changes in company law to strengthen regulation and governance.
PR No.58/2009 SEBI Board Meeting SEBI makes it mandatory to disclose details of shares pledged by the promoters To enhance the disclosure requirements, SEBI Board, in its meeting held today, decided to make it mandatory on the part of promoters (including promoter group) to disclose the details of pledge of shares held by them in […]
The Satyam scam has made auditors realise the need to have a ‘fraud-finding’ approach, rather than the conventional fault-finding mode while examining the books of companies. Looking at the need and appetite for such accounting practices, the apex body of chartered accountants, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), has introduced new study modules for […]
Eighteen companies, collectively planning to raise Rs 9,000 crore (Rs 90 billion) through initial public offers, will benefit from the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s new norms to extend the IPO validity period from three months to a year.
In continuation with the Circular No.F.1/5/SE/ 83 dated May 31, 1984 of Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Economics Affairs, Stock Exchange Division, you are advised to direct your stock brokers/clearing members to carry out complete internal audit on a half yearly basis by independent qualified Chartered Accountants.
CIRCULAR NO-2/2008-Income Tax Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) vide circular No.-MRD/DoP/SE/Dep/ Cir14/2007 dated 20/12/2007, has decided to permit all classes of investors (individuals, institutional, etc.) to short sell. Further, with a view to provide a mechanism for borrowing of securities to enable settlement of securities sold short, SEBI has also decided to put in place a full-fledged Securities Lending and Borrowing (SLB) Scheme for all market participants in the Indian securities market under the overall framework of “Securities Lending Scheme”, 1997″ of SEBI (Circular No.SMD/Policy/ SL/CIR-09/ 97 dated May 07, 1997).
The Japanese, with their fierce sense of commitment and loyalty to the organisation they are associated with, were ironically blasé about insider trading as typified by the general response to the law brought in 1988 in Japan to tackle the menace — what is wrong in being smart? Equally ironical is the assiduity with which insiders are pursued in the US. A journalist was hauled over the coals there for making a fast buck out of the information she garnered during the course of analysis of a company.
