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Sebi to relax norms for registered investment advisors, research analysts

According to industry estimates there are more than 1,300 RIAs but only 300 of them are members of the association of RIAs

Sebi to release paper on easing norms for investment advisor registration

Capital markets regulator Sebi will early next week come out with a consultation paper on making it easier to become a registered investment advisor, a senior official said on Friday. The move has come amid Sebi efforts to contain the activities of unregulated 'fin-influencers'. The Sebi board recently approved a series of measures on restricting the play of fin-influencers, which focus mainly on policing the segment through their tie ups with the entities regulated by Sebi. Also, senior Sebi officials in the recent past have said that challenges to get registered as an investment advisor are among the reasons for growth in the problematic fin-influencers segment. The capital markets regulator will come out with a consultation paper which will have proposals on relaxing the registration requirements for investment advisors and research analysts by Monday or Tuesday, its whole-time member Kamlesh Varshney said addressing Ficci's Capam event here. The registered investment advisors h

Sebi says it's considering 'demystified filing' to speed up IPO approvals

Regulator to also bring a combo-product of rights issue and preferential allotment

Sebi fines JM Financial Asset Management, former CEO for flouting rules

Capital markets watchdog Sebi has imposed penalty totalling Rs 2 crore on seven entities, including JM Financial Asset Management Ltd, its trustee and its former CEO Bhanu Katoch, for flouting regulatory norms. The fine needs to be paid within 45 days, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said in its order. Individually, a fine of Rs 25 lakh was levied on JM Financial Asset Management, Rs 10 lakh on JM Financial Trustee Company, Rs 1.1 crore on Bhanu Katoch, Rs 17 lakh on his mother Swarn Lata Katoch and Rs 8 lakh on his wife Sharika Kher. Additionally, the regulator slapped a fine of Rs 22 lakh on Deepen Doshi, who was head of institutional sales at JM Financial Asset Management during the violation, and Rs 9 lakh on his mother Aruna Doshi. In its order, Sebi noted that these five persons invested in certain JM Financial Mutual Fund schemes, holding defaulted Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd (DHFL) securities before the valuation change, using unpublished ...

Kotak MF's Nilesh Shah bats for restrictions on retail investors in F&O

Budget with BS: The Fine Print: 'Atithi Devo Bhava' is good for tourism not for financial markets; there should be no differential treatment, said Nilesh Shah, managing director of Kotak Mutual Fund

Sebi clarifies on reports pertaining T+0 system mandatory for all

Capital markets regulator Sebi on Wednesday clarified on media reports pertaining to making the T+0 system mandatory for all. "This has been erroneously reported in a section of the press as Sebi bats for making the T+0 system mandatory for all," the regulator said in a statement. In a statement issued, the regulator clarified that its chief Madhabi Puri Buch was discussing the Application Supported by Blocked Amount (ASBA) facility, not the T+0 settlement cycle. The ASBA facility ensures that the investor's fund gets moved only when the allotment is completed. At an NSE event on Tuesday, the Sebi chairperson released a report on "Indian Capital Markets: Transformative Shifts Achieved through technology and reforms". The report referred to potential annual benefit of Rs 2,800 crore if ASBA for the secondary market were to be adopted fully by retail investors. "In this context, a question was posed to the Sebi chairperson on the ASBA facility being optional due to which retail ...

Excessive speculation

Proposed measures will reduce retail participation in F&O

'Sebi's plan on index derivatives to reduce volumes, lower volatility'

Markets regulator Sebi's proposal on tightening rules for index derivatives if implemented may result in erosion of volumes from Futures & Options (F&O), experts said on Wednesday. At the same time, it will enhance investor protection and promote market stability in derivatives markets, they added. In its consultation paper on Tuesday, the regulator has proposed seven measures, including increasing minimum contract size and upfront collection of option premiums, intra-day monitoring of position limits, rationalisation of strike prices, removal of calendar spread benefit on expiry day and increase in near contract expiry margin. One of the proposals is to rationalise weekly expiry and restrict it to one per week on the benchmark index per exchange. This change will likely impact volumes, as the recent volumes in the equity derivatives segment have been driven by weekly expiries, HDFC Securities MD & CEO Dhiraj Relli said. "Reducing volumes in F&O will bring down the ...

BANKEX expiry Friday to boost BSE volumes: Hemang Jani of Finazenn explains

Why is BSE stock up today: BSE share price advanced 8.1 per cent to Rs 2,607.7 per share on the NSE on Wednesday. The rally comes amid market regulator Sebi's new proposals regarding F&O trading

Motilal Oswal maintains buy on Angel One post Sebi's F&O proposals

Not more than 50 strikes would be introduced for an index derivatives contract at the time of contract launch.

How will Sebi's proposed F&O rules affect BSE, NSE, Zerodha, Angel One?

Spillover of trading activity from these contracts into remaining products, analysts believe, can limit the impact to 20-25%

Capital gains tax changes may impact investment behaviour: Rashesh Shah

Buyback and tax-free dividend had a gap and an equalisation was needed. Volumes in F&O trading had gone up rapidly and, in a way, the increase in STT on F&O will protect investor interest, he said

All you need to know about Sebi proposals on index derivatives

Decoded Sebi's proposals to curb speculation in F&O: The market regulator on July 30 proposed these seven measures in its consultation paper on index derivatives framework.

Sebi mulls changes in norms for FPIs from land-bordering countries

The market regulator has proposed linking the disclosure requirements to a minimum threshold to identify whether the FPI is based in an LBC

Overseas training or vacation? Sebi puts kibosh on MFDs' foreign 'perks'

Amfi's hammer fall: No 'incentivisation programmes' beyond Indian shores

Bhavish Aggarwal-led Ola Electric IPO likely to open on August 2

SoftBank-backed EV maker to pursue valuation of about $4.5 bn

Standard Glass Lining Tech files IPO papers with Sebi to raise funds

Standard Glass Lining Technology Ltd, which manufactures specialised engineering equipment for pharmaceutical and chemical sectors, has filed preliminary papers with capital markets regulator Sebi to raise funds through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). The Telangana-based company's IPO is a combination of fresh issuance of shares worth Rs 250 crore and an Offer For Sale (OFS) of up to 1.84 crore equity shares by promoters and other selling shareholders, according to the Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP). Those selling shares in the OFS include -- S2 Engineering Services, Standard Holdings, Kandula Ramakrishna, Kandula Krishna Veni, Nageswara Rao Kandula, Katragadda Venkata Ramani and Venkata Siva Prasad Katragadda. The company may consider raising up to Rs 50 crore in the pre-IPO placement. If such placement is completed, the fresh issue size will be reduced. Proceeds from the fresh to the extent of Rs 130 crore will be used for payment of a debt, Rs 30 crore for investment in a

Filling a gap

New asset class for mutual funds will help HNIs

Over 70% intraday traders suffered losses during FY23, reveals Sebi study

Sebi study underscores the risks associated with intraday trading

Market regulator Sebi issues show-cause notice to Paytm on ESOPs

The Noida-based company said the show-cause notice did not have any impact on the financial results of the fourth quarter of the financial year 2024 (Q4 FY24) and Q1 FY25