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Securities / Derivatives
SEBI Tightens Disclosure Standards for Alternative Investment Funds
By Editors | 07/02/2020
SEBI has set out minimum disclosure standards and introduced mandatory performance benchmarking for alternative investment funds.
Securities / Derivatives
India Streamlines FPI Registration Process
By Editors | 05/02/2020
The new ‘Common Application Form’ can be used for three purposes – FPI registration with SEBI, PAN issuance by the CBDT, and KYC for account opening with intermediaries.
Securities / Derivatives
SEBI Asks Exchanges to Review Commodity Derivatives Performance
By Editors | 05/02/2020
Performance reviews of commodity derivatives contracts should be conducted each year to ensure alignment with the physical markets.
Securities / Derivatives
BSE, NSE Launch New Trading Platforms for Debt Securities
By Editors | 04/02/2020
BSE India launched its new RFQ Platform on Monday and NSE on Tuesday. The platforms offer greater transparency and access to debt securities for eligible investors.
Securities / Derivatives
SEBI Sets Position Limits for Gift City Rupee Derivatives
By Editors | 04/02/2020
Brokers, institutional investors and eligible foreign investors can hold gross open positions in rupee futures and options contracts up to $1bn or 15% of total open interest, whichever is higher.
Securities / Derivatives
SEBI Approves MSE Launch of Weekly Interest Rate Futures
By Editors | 31/01/2020
The Metropolitan Stock Exchange has become the first Indian exchange to receive SEBI’s approval to launch weekly interest rate futures contracts.
AML / KYC
SEBI Panel Proposes Tighter Norms for Related Party Transactions
By Editors | 29/01/2020
Any member of the promoter group would be deemed a related party regardless of shareholding. Any shareholder with more than 20% of a listed company’s shares would also be deemed a related party.
Securities / Derivatives
SEBI Prescribes New Margin Framework or Commodity Derivatives
By Editors | 28/01/2020
Clearing corporations are asked to categories commodity derivatives as low, medium and high risk, and to set new IM and MPOR floors.
AML / KYC
SEBI to Augment Social Media Monitoring to Fight Manipulation
By Editors | 24/01/2020
SEBI is working on a ‘data lake’ project that will use AI, machine learning and NLP tech to analyse unstructured data and augment market surveillance.
Securities / Derivatives
RBI Permits Gift City Trading of Rupee Derivatives
By Editors | 21/01/2020
The move will help address demands from overseas participants for the availability of better tools to hedge India exposures.
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