The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are looking into the breach of investment limit by foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) in HDFC Bank Ltd last week, as well as steps to prevent such violations in the future, a SEBI official said on the condition of anonymity on … Read More →
SEBI rejigs norms for companies to raise funds via REIT, InvIT Market regulator Securities And Exchange Board Of India has tweaked the norms for companies to raise funds via Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) and Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvIT). Firstly, the number of sponsors for REIT can now go up to 5 from the previous … Read More →
SEBI meeting likely to gift bonanza to FPIs The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is likely to announce a slew of measures pertaining to foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) at its board meeting on Friday. These could include foreign funds to own multiple demat accounts, simplification of account-opening procedures and providing a direct membership … Read More →
SEBI issues new norms for foreign portfolio investors The Securities and Exchange Board of India has allowed foreign portfolio investors who had issued participatory notes under the erstwhile regulations to hold the position till the date of expiry of such positions or till end of December 2020. The regulator said in a clarificatory note posted … Read More →
Allaying concerns about any further misuse of Participatory Notes, market watchdog Sebi’s Chairman U K Sinha has said Indians can no longer use these offshore instruments, even indirectly, and a strong safety net has been put in place to check any routing of black money. He also said that foreign investors have been taken “completely … Read More →
Foreign Portfolio Investments (FPIs) will be able to invest an additional Rs 14,000 crore from on Monday in various government securities, including those of the states. The cap has been now raised to Rs 2,00,500 crore from the current Rs 1,86,500 crore. The limits would be enhanced further by another Rs 13,500 crore from July … Read More →
Volatile markets notwithstanding, more than 2,200 new Foreign Portfolio Investors ( FPIs) registered with regulator Sebi in the first 10 months of the ongoing fiscal. According to the latest data from Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), the capital markets had witnessed 1,444 newly registered foreign portfolio investors in the entire fiscal 2014-15.
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 →