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The tribunal granted interim relief in light of the fact that the National Securities Depository had earlier reversed securities to clients on the basis of Sebi's November 2019 order
The tribunal granted interim relief to Axis Bank, in light of the fact that in the past the National Securities Depository had reversed client securities on the basis of Sebi's November 2019 order
Group is restructuring its overall business into two verticals - financial services and non-financial services - in a move aimed at improving governance and functioning
The DRT had stayed the plea of the bank that immoveable and moveable properties of Karvy Stock Broking and other respondents be taken under possession
It has also appointed Amitabh Chaturvedi, who used to head private sector lender Dhanlaxmi Bank, as the company's group chief executive for financial services
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Karvy Group is in the process of restructuring its overall business into financial services and non-financial services verticals, it said on Tuesday
In ICICI Bank's DRT plea, Karvy group's chairman and managing director C Parthasarthy, was also listed as one of the respondents
India had slightly more than 2,400 brokerages as of December 24, down from more than 9,000 in March 2014.
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Karvy Financial Services was required to disclose creation of pledge to the company as well as the BSE in accordance with the market norms
Axis Bank had moved to the SAT seeking the shares pledged by Karvy Stock Broking Limited (KSBL) to the lender be unfrozen, so that it can invoke the pledges
From being perceived as economic victims weighed down by bad loans, the finance sector has emerged as the villain in 2019
Lender had approached tribunal seeking shares pledged by Karvy to it be unfreezed, saying the clients who owned the securities owed money to Karvy and therefore the pledge was good in law
Amid instances of crises at various entities in the financial sector, Sebi chief Ajay Tyagi on Monday said such things affect trust of investors but that do not mean everything is wrong, and the regulator is taking steps quite quickly. "Whatever improvement is required, we are doing it quite quickly... whatever is in Sebi's domain," Tyagi said and referred to action taken in the case of crisis at Karvy Stock Broking Ltd. When asked whether instances such as crisis at DHFL, IL&FS and KSBL have impacted investors' trust, Tyagi said, "definitely such things affect the trust (of investors) but that does not mean everything is bad or everything is wrong". According to him, whatever was in Sebi's domain, the regulator has done things quite promptly. "Karvy was in our domain. We did very promptly. We are trying to improve on rating agencies side... and on bond market development," he said. On November 22, Sebi barred KSBL from taking new clients in respect of its stock broking activities
Their complaint stated about 45,000 investors had been affected by the alleged fraud
The circular "directly concerned the business activity" of the lenders
Lender had overdraft facility of Rs 100 crore to brokerage