The Reserve Bank of India has issued various guidelines aimed at revitalising the stressed assets in the economy. The measures taken by the Reserve Bank include Strategic Debt Restructuring Mechanism, Framework to Revitalise the Distressed Assets in the Economy, Revisions to the Guidelines on Restructuring of Advances by Banks, Flexible structuring of Long Term Project Loans and amendments to guidelines on Sale of Financial Assets to Securitisation Companies (SC) / Reconstruction Companies (SC).
For the upcoming reporting in March 2015 and May 2016, all reporting has to be done in INR. For the reporting in 2017, Form 61B and Schema will be suitably modified to include a field for capturing type of currency
With a view to curb the speculative participation and consequent volatility in prices of agricultural commodities, SEBI has reviewed the existing norms related to commodity derivatives markets and has decided to make following regulatory changes in the case of trading of agricultural commodities :-
PR No. 10/2016 SEBI Board Meeting The SEBI Board met in Mumbai today and took the following decisions: 1. Review of prudential limits on investments by Mutual Funds The Board deliberated the proposals relating to review of prudential limits at issuer and sector level and the need to introduce such limits for group level exposure. […]
In recent times, the use of Social Media has become widespread in various organizations including Government Ministries and Departments for public relations and communication. Keeping with the stated endeavour of the Department to induct state-of-the-art and green technology with a user friendly interface, the Department is extending its external communication to Social Media such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
Some unlisted companies are luring retail investors by issuing securities including non-convertible and convertible debentures/ non-convertible and convertible preference shares/ equity shares in the garb of private placement, without complying with the provisions of Companies Act, 1956 read with the Companies Act, 2013, SEBI (Issue and Listing of Debt Securities), Regulations, 2008, SEBI (Issue and Listing of Non-Convertible Redeemable Preference Shares), Regulations, 2013 and SEBI (Issue of capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2009.
SEBI REIT Regulations were notified on 26th September, 2014, thereby providing a regulatory framework for registration and regulation of REITs in India. The Regulations, inter alia, provide that ‘The Board may specify by issue of guidelines or circulars, any other requirements, as it deems fit, pertaining to issue and allotment of units by an REIT.
PR No. 297/2015 Sixth Meeting of the International Advisory Board of SEBI The Sixth meeting of the International Advisory Board (IAB) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) was held on December 21 & 22, 2015. The following major issues were inter alia discussed during the meeting: i. Implementation of OECD Principles of […]
SEBI has initiated the second tranche of distribution of amount to 4.63 lakh investors from the disgorged amount in the matter of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) irregularities. An amount of Rs.18.06 crore, which includes Rs.7.35 crore recovered by SEBI in exercise of the newly conferred recovery powers under the Securities Laws (Amendment) Act, 2014, would […]
The Government of India has reviewed the extant FDI policy on various sectors and made following amendments in the Consolidated FDI Policy Circular of 2015 (FDI Policy), effective from May 12, 2015, and as amended from time to time.
