Markets regulator Sebi today allowed foreign portfolio investors to invest in newly launched products — REITs, InvITs and AIFs — and also permitted them to acquire corporate bonds under default. All the investments by Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) in such bonds should be within the overall limit of Rs 244,323 crore for foreign investment in … Read More →
To help investors get a clearer picture on their returns, markets regulator Sebi plans to encourage listed companies to put in place their own dividend distribution policies. The proposal forms part of Sebi’s Plan of Action for the next fiscal, beginning next month, which was approved by the regulator’s board this weekend. The capital market … Read More →
Cracking the whip on fraudulent activities, Sebi on Tuesday barred stock broker Unickon Securities and 18 other entities from the capital market for 10 years. Unickon Securities has been restrained for alleged fraudulent transfer of clients’ securities to group entities of Unickon Financial Intermediaries and other violations of capital market regulations. In its 69-page order, … Read More →
NEW DELHI: In a major clean-up exercise, markets regulator SEBI today said it will encourage delisting of suspended companies. At its board meeting today, the SEBI board discussed the plan for action for 2016-17, including steps to encourage delisting of suspended companies. Top exchange BSE last year proposed delisting of more than 1,000 companies from … Read More →
SEBI has passed perhaps the first adverse order on commodity trading after having acquired jurisdiction over this field from FMC. This order coincidentally comes almost exactly one year after this jurisdiction was proposed for it in Finance Bill 2015. The order is also curious as it specifically passes wider/dual bans debarring parties not only from … Read More →