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Packaged spices company Pushp Brand (India) has received approval from Sebi to float an initial public offering (IPO), the markets regulator said on Thursday. The IPO is an Offer for Sale of up to 74.45 lakh equity shares by existing shareholders. The company, which filed preliminary IPO papers in June, obtained 'final observation' from the regulator on August 27, the update showed. The receipt of Sebi observation is a key step in the IPO process, following which the company can proceed with further preparations for the public issue, subject to applicable regulatory requirements. The OFS will include shares held by promoters Surendra Kumar Surana and Mahendra Kumar Surana, as well as investor shareholders A91 Emerging Fund I LLP and Sixth Sense India Opportunities III. A91 Emerging Fund I, which invested about Rs 125 crore in the company in 2020, holds a 20.14 per cent stake and will sell only part of its holding. Sixth Sense India Opportunities III, which invested around Rs 101
Sebi has disposed of proceedings against Max Financial Services, Max Life, and Axis Group entities over an alleged Rs 3,911 crore shareholder loss, with the markets regulator finding that disclosure lapses and a fraudulent scheme were not established. Max Life Insurance Company is now known as Axis Max Life Insurance. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), in a final order passed on Monday, dropped proceedings against seven individuals, including Max Group founder and Chairman Analjit Singh. The proceedings arose from a Show Cause Notice (SCN) issued on October 24, 2024, following an investigation into transactions between the Max and Axis entities during 2009-10 to 2021-22. Sebi had examined three sets of arrangements entered into in 2010, 2015 and 2020. The case centred on allegations that Max Financial failed to make adequate and timely disclosures about the transactions and that Max Financial, Max Life, and Axis entities devised a scheme that provided undue benefit
Markets regulator Sebi on Monday decided to introduce an IT Resilience Index (ITRI) to assess the functioning and resilience of information technology systems of market infrastructure institutions (MIIs), including stock exchanges, depositories and clearing corporations. The move is aimed at strengthening oversight of the resilience of IT systems and identifying emerging weaknesses at an early stage, so that timely corrective measures can be taken. Under the framework, the ITRI will be computed using a uniform set of nine parameters, each carrying a specific weightage to ensure comparability across MIIs, Sebi said in its circular. Availability and security will carry the highest weightage of 20 per cent each, followed by integrity, governance, reliability and monitoring, business continuity, and modularity and flexibility at 10 per cent each. Scalability and other aspects, including incident handling, will account for the remaining 5 per cent each. Sebi said MIIs will also develop
The country's equity derivatives market has taken on a notably younger profile, with traders under 30 making up 43 per cent of individual participants in FY26, a sharp rise from 31 per cent four years earlier, according to a study. However, the younger cohort also recorded a higher incidence of losses, the study by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) revealed. Around 89 per cent of traders below 30 were loss-makers in FY26 compared to 81 per cent of participants above 60. The changing age profile is part of a wider transformation in the retail derivatives market, which has increasingly drawn investors outside India's largest cities and from relatively lower-income groups. About three-fourths of individual derivatives traders belonged to the annual income category of below Rs 5 lakh. This group accounted for 43 per cent of turnover, but 53 per cent of aggregate losses, the regulator said. Around 88 per cent of traders in this income category incurred losses, compared