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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is the regulatory body for securities and commodity markets in India under the ownership of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. SEBI was established on April 12, 1992 in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992. The Preamble of the Securities and Exchange Board of India describes the basic functions of the Securities and Exchange Board of India as More

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  • Of furus, finfluencers and a frenetic rush for cover after Rs 6-cr whip on Sundar May 28, 2023 06:34 AM IST

    Of furus, finfluencers and a frenetic rush for cover after Rs 6-cr whip on Sundar

    Since the Sebi order on PR Sundar, many furus started deleting posts of their courses, workshops and ‘premium groups’ on social-media channels

  • Company mistakes Sebi order as ‘informatory mail’; delays material-event disclosure by 2 weeks May 26, 2023 10:35 PM IST

    Company mistakes Sebi order as ‘informatory mail’; delays material-event disclosure by 2 weeks

    Sebi has ordered a forensic audit, concerned about the disclosure of the company's financial information

  • Jefferies’ long-only portfolios add Zomato, SBI Life, remove HDFC Life May 27, 2023 07:22 AM IST

    Jefferies’ long-only portfolios add Zomato, SBI Life, remove HDFC Life

    In Chris Wood’s weekly newsletter, he detailed how some of the Asia (ex-Japan) portfolios have been changed

  • Moneycontrol Selects: Top stories this evening May 26, 2023 06:32 PM IST

    Moneycontrol Selects: Top stories this evening

    Our specially curated package of the most interesting articles to help you stay at the top of your game.

  • SEBI bringing in Mutual Fund Light regulation to foster passive fund growth: Ananta Barua May 26, 2023 06:06 PM IST

    SEBI bringing in Mutual Fund Light regulation to foster passive fund growth: Ananta Barua

    These regulations will provide greater flexibility for index funds and ETFs, enabling them to offer transparency, diversification, and lower costs to investors, he explained

  • PR Sundar settles with Sebi, to keep off trading for a year, cough up over Rs 6 crore May 27, 2023 08:43 AM IST

    PR Sundar settles with Sebi, to keep off trading for a year, cough up over Rs 6 crore

    The market regulator had received two references inter alia alleging that PR Sundar was providing advisory services without obtaining the requisite registration from Sebi

  • It's a long process, will take time: Ananta Barua on SEBI’s mutual fund TER proposals May 26, 2023 03:01 PM IST

    It's a long process, will take time: Ananta Barua on SEBI’s mutual fund TER proposals

    SEBI has observed that the brokerage and transaction charges of some schemes was more than the TER limits prescribed, which resulted in investors paying more than double the TER limit for the scheme.

  • Zee-Sony merger: NCLAT quashes NCLT order asking BSE, NSE to review approvals to the deal May 26, 2023 03:16 PM IST

    Zee-Sony merger: NCLAT quashes NCLT order asking BSE, NSE to review approvals to the deal

    NCLT had on May 11 directed the exchanges to reassess and validate the non-compete clause of the merger, which was approved by the Securities and Exchange Board of India

  • Sebi cracks the whip on AIF-structures helping regulated lenders hide stressed assets May 25, 2023 08:08 PM IST

    Sebi cracks the whip on AIF-structures helping regulated lenders hide stressed assets

    According to the regulator, AIFs preferential distribution or PD structures could also lead to the ever-greening of loans

  • How a company’s ‘lackadaisical’, ‘illegal’ manner lost 80 percent of funds raised through preferential issue May 25, 2023 07:07 AM IST

    How a company’s ‘lackadaisical’, ‘illegal’ manner lost 80 percent of funds raised through preferential issue

    A Sebi investigation detailed how the money was used against the stated objective.

  • Six charts that influenced SEBI’s mutual fund total expense ratio proposals May 27, 2023 06:04 PM IST

    Six charts that influenced SEBI’s mutual fund total expense ratio proposals

    After studying India’s Rs 40 lakh crore mutual funds sector, SEBI has unearthed data on performance, churn, and brokerage paid to justify some radical proposals to reimagine the total charges collected from investors. Moneycontrol takes a closer look at what the numbers revealed.

  • Sebi’s proposal allowing smaller REITs opens one door but shuts another May 24, 2023 10:32 AM IST

    Sebi’s proposal allowing smaller REITs opens one door but shuts another

    Smaller real estate investment trusts is a good idea for investors and the market, but less onerous compliance please needed. An elephant in the room needs to be addressed too

  • SEBI proposes amendment to Insider Trading Regulations: But is it necessary? May 24, 2023 08:30 AM IST

    SEBI proposes amendment to Insider Trading Regulations: But is it necessary?

    SEBI’s proposal to review the definition of Unpublished Price Sensitive Information to include all material events, irrespective of whether they are deemed to be price sensitive or not, could blur the line between UPSI and material non-public information. Moreover, any unpublished information likely to be price sensitive already falls under UPSI definition. So why an amendment when an FAQ can clarify the position?

  • Sebi slaps Rs 41 lakh fine on 3 entities for violating market norms May 23, 2023 08:05 PM IST

    Sebi slaps Rs 41 lakh fine on 3 entities for violating market norms

    The regulator imposed a fine of Rs 20 lakh on Brij Kishore Sabharwal, Rs 15 lakh on Himanshu Agarwal and Rs 6 lakh on Alps Motor Finance Ltd (AMFL).

  • Rule prohibiting investment by opaque funds done away by SEBI on 'weak grounds', claims Cong May 23, 2023 05:35 PM IST

    Rule prohibiting investment by opaque funds done away by SEBI on 'weak grounds', claims Cong

    The Opposition party's assertion came after a media report claimed that the Supreme Court-appointed committee scrutinised SEBI's dropping of a key regulatory requirement for foreign portfolio investments (FPIs) months before it developed suspicions on Adani group shareholding.

  • Mutual funds brace for impact of Sebi consultation paper on total expenses May 23, 2023 01:24 PM IST

    Mutual funds brace for impact of Sebi consultation paper on total expenses

    “Not all is that bad,” say mutual fund industry officials, who Moneycontrol spoke with, on most of the proposals. The inclusion of brokerage costs, though, is a troubling recommendation for a few officials.

  • Moneycontrol Daily: Your Essential 7 May 23, 2023 06:11 AM IST

    Moneycontrol Daily: Your Essential 7

    A daily round-up of the most interesting articles to help jump-start the day.

  • REITs and InvITS must ensure dematerialisation of securities by June 30: Sebi May 22, 2023 05:37 PM IST

    REITs and InvITS must ensure dematerialisation of securities by June 30: Sebi

    In case securities are held in physical form, the managers of the trusts have been given time till June 30, 2023 to implement the change

  • Sebi moots proposal to strengthen investor grievance mechanism May 22, 2023 05:12 PM IST

    Sebi moots proposal to strengthen investor grievance mechanism

    The proposal is aimed at making the entire redressal process of grievances in the securities market comprehensive by providing an end-to-end solution and the process more efficient and faster by reducing timelines and introducing auto-routing and auto-escalation.

  • SEBI's attempts to improve corporate governance are also an unending battle against tech smokescreens, business complexity and rogue elements May 22, 2023 12:40 PM IST

    SEBI's attempts to improve corporate governance are also an unending battle against tech smokescreens, business complexity and rogue elements

    Among the SEBI consultation papers released on May 18 include attempts to take aim at suspicious trading activities, unpublished price sensitive information, and regulation of foreign venture capital investors. Each of these tasks are quite complicated but efforts to improve corporate business practices mustn’t flag

  • Get paid only if you perform: SEBI’s plan throws MF industry into a tizzy May 22, 2023 12:15 PM IST

    Get paid only if you perform: SEBI’s plan throws MF industry into a tizzy

    The proposal followed investor concerns over growing underperformance of MF schemes. Some investors have turned to passive schemes given their low cost, absence of fund manager risk and possibility of achieving near benchmark returns.

  • SEBI’s case for presuming guilt till proven innocent is a weak one May 22, 2023 11:38 AM IST

    SEBI’s case for presuming guilt till proven innocent is a weak one

    Pinning down perpetrators in suspicious transactions may be a tough task, but that’s not excuse enough to promulgate a draconian law 

  • Sebi proposes to firm up price bands for derivatives to contain volatility May 22, 2023 07:27 AM IST

    Sebi proposes to firm up price bands for derivatives to contain volatility

    Price bands for scrip or a derivative contract represent the boundaries within which the competing orders of buyers and sellers are accepted for the day by the trading system of the stock exchange.

  • Sebi proposes to cut down IPO listing timeline to 3 days from 6 days May 20, 2023 05:20 PM IST

    Sebi proposes to cut down IPO listing timeline to 3 days from 6 days

    The proposed reduction in timelines for listing and trading of shares will benefit both issuers as well as investors.

  • SEBI wants mutual funds to catch front running, insider trading frauds May 20, 2023 04:49 PM IST

    SEBI wants mutual funds to catch front running, insider trading frauds

    In a consultation paper that SEBI issued on May 20, it has proposed setting up of internal surveillance systems in mutual fund houses to catch fraudulent activities. It wants fund houses to be more pro-active