Securities and Exchange Board of India

    Securities / Derivatives

    India Suspends Plan to Allow Direct Overseas Listings

    By Editors | 25/03/2022

    Domestic companies can only list overseas after first listing in India. Rule changes that would have allowed direct overseas listings have reportedly been suspended.

    Securities / Derivatives

    SEBI Eases Norms on Mutual Fund Transactions by Investors

    By Editors | 23/03/2022

    Norms prohibiting the use of one-time mandates to accept payments for mutual fund transactions have been eased.

    AML / KYC

    GLEIF Welcomes LEI System’s First India Validation Agent

    By Editors | 22/03/2022

    Rubix Data Sciences has become the first India-based Validation Agent within the Global LEI System, and the sixth globally.

    Enforcement

    SEBI Seizes Records from Market Manipulators in 4 States

    By Editors | 14/03/2022

    Individuals and entities were operating Telegram channels to encourage investors to deal in listed stocks, thereby creating “artificial volume and price rise”.

    Securities / Derivatives

    SEBI Raises Limit for Debt Investments via UPI Mechanism

    By Editors | 11/03/2022

    The limit for investments in debt securities via the UPI mechanism is being increased from INR 200,000 to INR 500,000, effective 1 May 2022.

    Enforcement

    Indian Police Arrest Former NSE Head Chitra Ramkrishna

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 07/03/2022

    The CBI said evidence shows that Ramkrishna engaged in a conspiracy with another executive, after she coerced NSE’s HR department to hire him.

    Securities / Derivatives

    SEBI Extends Timeline for Brokers to Segregate Client Collateral

    By Editors | 07/03/2022

    The implementation timeline for the new framework on client collateral segregation and monitoring has been extended to 2 May 2022.

    Securities / Derivatives

    SEBI to Allow FPIs to Access Commodities Derivatives Market

    By Editors | 03/03/2022

    SEBI proposes to scrap rules that require foreign investors to have actual commodity exposure to participate in the exchange-traded commodity derivatives market.

    Securities / Derivatives

    SEBI to Enhance Disclosures on IPOs by Loss-making Tech Firms

    By Ranamita Chakraborty | 23/02/2022

    SEBI proposes that new age technology companies be required to disclose all presentations made to pre-IPO investors during the three years prior to the IPO.

    Securities / Derivatives

    Splitting Chairman, MD, CEO Roles No Longer Mandatory: SEBI

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 17/02/2022

    Only 54 percent of the listed companies in scope had complied with the rule as of end-2021, so it will instead become voluntary.

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