The Board also discussed the plan of action for FY 2017-18. Some of the major initiatives proposed are as follows: Reducing the listing time gap by bringing down the issue timing from the existing requirement of T+6. Allowing, in consultation with Stakeholders and Regulators, institutional participation in commodity derivatives markets in phased manner.
Besides Shri U.K.Sinha, Chairman, SEBI, the meeting was attended by members of the SEBI Board namely, Shri Tapan Ray, Shri. Arun P. Sathe. Shri S. Raman and Shri. G. Mahalingam. Executive Directors and other senior officials of SEBI were also present.
While pursuing the path of revenue mobilisation, which is an integral part of our core work, we must always keep in our view, the assurance given by Hon’ble Finance Minister that all honest, tax-compliant persons will be treated with dignity and courtesy.
On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation at its meeting today, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to
Commercial Papers (CPs) were introduced to enable corporate borrowers to diversify their sources of short-term borrowings as also to provide an additional instrument to investors.
SEBI has taken action against 256 (as on January 10, 2017) such entities for issuance of securities in the form of non-convertible and convertible preference shares/ non-convertible and convertible debentures/ equity shares to public, without complying with the prescribed provisions of law as referred in Para 1, 2, 3 & 4 above.
IPPB is widely expected to be a game changer for financial inclusion in the country as the USP of this initiative is doorstep banking, particularly in the rural areas.
Income tax Appellate Tribunal is in the process of re-designing and re-development of its Information systems and in a few week, we will migrate out systems to NIC Cloud servers with much more and better resources and capacity.
It has to be realized that good corporate governance is about helping the company achieve its objectives, implement its corporate strategy, while keeping the interest of various stakeholders in mind.
The Board approved the proposal to amend various Regulations to enable the market participants to make payments to SEBI through digital mode (such as NEFT/RTGS) as well.
