Pursuant to announcement in the Union Budget 2015–2016 on Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT), SEBI Board has approved SEBI (International Financial Services Centres) Guidelines, 2015. These guidelines facilitate and regulate financial services relating to securities market in an International Financial…
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SEBI budget for the year 2015–16
While approving the SEBI budget for the year 2015–16, the Board noted and approved the following policy initiatives that may be taken during the FY 2015–16: (i) Extensive and integrated use of technology to facilitate and further ease the investing…
Share Market will open on Budget day i.e., on Saturday & however there will no Transaction on Mutual Fund
Saturdays & sundays are normally non- business day in Stock Market & Mutual Fund Market. The Securities and Exchange Board of India had intimated the stock exchanges that the market would remain open on the day of the Union Budget.…
SEBI strives to cut costs for IPOs
The average expense for the five Initial Public Offers (IPOs) of stock in 2014 was 7.1 per cent of the issue proceeds. Unsurprising, then, that the word ‘cost’ was used seven times in a discussion paper on Rrevisiting the capital…
Coming soon: the ‘e‑IPO’ to bring down the listing time period
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) aims to reduce the period between the closing of an initial public offering (IPO) and commencement of trading on stock exchanges to five-six days, against 12 days at present. The SEBI…
Sebi considers penalties to prevent self-trades
Concerned that ‘self-trades’ are disturbing market equilibrium, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is planning penal action against market participants doing this. Sources say the market regulator has seen an increase in such trades, with the aim of creating…
Issuance of partly paid shares and warrants by Indian companies – A Brief Discussion on Guidelines Issued by SEBI
The Ministry of Finance has decided to permit issuance of partly paid shares and warrants (“the said instruments”) by the Indian companies to foreign investors Share on: whatsapp
SEBI notifies new ESOP regulations
Market regulator Sebi has notified new ESOP regulations, including for purchase of shares by employee welfare trusts from the secondary market with adequate safeguards. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has allowed companies to have employee stock option programmes where they can buy…
SEBI issues guidelines on one-time registration process
Sebi on Monday issued guidelines to stock exchanges and clearing houses that require them to share information about their members, among others, as part of streamlining the registration process for market entities. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) had…
Clarification on Government Debt Investment Limits
The government is likely to expand the scope of Served from India Scheme (SFIS) by allowing exporters to trade the tax incentives earned by them in a bid to spur services exports.
The incentives are in the form of duty credit scrips that can be used to pay the customs duty on input imports of capital goods or consumables.
If the incentives are made tradable, exporters from sectors such as education, healthcare, healthcare, consultancy and real estate that do not import much will be able to sell them in.…..