In order to facilitate efficient use of collateral by market participants, it has been decided to extend cross margining facility to off-setting positions in highly co-related equity indices.
As part of the overall strategy of diversifying the investor base for SDLs, Reserve Bank of India has been taking various measures to encourage participation of retail investors in SDL market including introduction of non-competitive bidding in primary auctions.
SEBI decided to permit creation of segregated portfolio of unrated debt or money market instruments by mutual fund schemes of an issuer that does not have any outstanding rated debt or money market instruments
Any changes to the terms of investment, including extension in the maturity of a money market or debt security, shall be reported to valuation agencies and SEBI registered Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) immediately, along-with reasons for such changes.
Entities in the securities market shall be allowed to undertake Aadhaar Authentication under section 11A of PMLA. SEBI Registered intermediaries for reasons such as online on-boarding of clients, customer convenience, increased efficiency and reduced time for client on-boarding would prefer to use Aadhaar based e-KYC facility to complete the KYC of the client.
All Listed companies or their RTAs shall provide data of their members holding shares in physical mode, viz the name of shareholders, folio numbers, certificate numbers, distinctive numbers and PAN etc. (hereinafter, static database) as on March 31, 2019, to the Depositories, latest by December 31, 2019.
SEBI issues Operational guidelines for foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs), Designated Depository Participants DDPs) and Eligible Foreign Investors (EFIs) to facilitate implementation of SEBI (Foreign Portfolio Investors) Regulations, 2019.
CBIC directs that no search authorization, summons, arrest memo, inspection notices and letters issued in the course of any enquiry shall be issued by any officer under the Board to a taxpayer or any other person, on or after the 8th day of November, 2019 without a computer-generated Document Identification Number (DIN) being duly quoted prominently in the body of such communication
CRAs shall meet the audit committee of the rated entity, at least once in a year, to discuss issues including related party transactions, internal financial control and other material disclosures made by the management, which have a bearing on rating of the listed NCDs.
In order to strengthen and raise the standard of the Asset Liability Management (ALM) framework applicable to NBFCs, it has been decided to revise the extant guidelines on liquidity risk management for NBFCs.
