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SEBI’s new regulations
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has shortened the period for processing rights issues from the earlier 58 days to 31 days, and has also set a new time limit of 31 days on the disclosure of defaults by listed companies. SEBI has enhanced the investment threshold in schemes offered by portfolio management ..
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Topics: Government • India • Securities and Exchange Board of India
SEBI’s norm for issuers of municipal bonds
On 12 Nov, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) prescribed wider disclosures and compliances norms by the issuers of listed municipal bonds. As per the SEBI norms, listed entities should submit half-yearly unaudited financial results to the stock exchanges within 45 days of the end of the first half of the year and ..
Topics: Bond • Credit rating agency • Finance • Government • Municipal bond • Qualified institutional placement • Securities and Exchange Board of India • Security • Stock Market
Ishaat Hussain heads SEBI committee to suggest norms for Social Stock Exchanges (SSE)
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has recently constituted a committee on Social Stock Exchanges (SSE) under the chairmanship of Ishaat Hussain, Director of SBI Foundation. The committee shall examine and make recommendations with respect to possible structures and mechanisms, within the securities market domain, to facilitate the raising of funds by social ..
Topics: Financial markets • India • National Institute of Securities Markets • Securities and Exchange Board of India • Security • Stock Market
TN Manoharan heads Committee on Secondary Markets
The 6-member RBI task force, headed by Canara Bank Chairman TN Manoharan, has recommended the setting up a Self-Regulatory Body (SRB) of market participants to finalize details for the secondary market for corporate loans, including the standardization of documents. It has also called for amending regulations of SEBI, IRDA and PFRDA to enable participation of ..
Topics: Bank • Banking • Canara Bank • Economy • Financial services • Non-bank financial institution • Securities and Exchange Board of India
Debt Management and Monetary Policy in India
The discourse on the need to separate debt management and monetary policy is doing rounds for quite a time. The view was even endorsed by the committee on capital account convertibility in 1996 because of the possible conflict of interest between monetary policy and debt management. Why the issue went to backburner? When Bimal Jalan ..
Topics: Debt • Economy • Finance • Finance in India • Government debt • Greek government-debt crisis • Ministry of Finance • Monetary Policy • Money • PDMA • Public Debt Management Agency • RBI • Repurchase agreement • Reserve Bank of India • SEBI • Securities and Exchange Board of India