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Trading & Investment
SEBI Defers Margin Framework, Halves Broker Turnover Fees
By Editors | 28/04/2020
In addition, the filing fees on offer documents for public issues, rights issue and share buybacks have been reduced by 50 percent.
Liquidity Risk
RBI Opens New Liquidity Facility for Mutual Funds
By Editors | 27/04/2020
The move follows Franklin Templeton’s decision to freeze and wind up six of its mutual funds amid intense redemption and liquidity pressures, prompting contagion fears across the sector.
Credit Risk
India Suspends Bankruptcy Law Provisions to Avert Insolvency Filings
By Editors | 27/04/2020
India’s Cabinet has approved the suspension of provisions that allow financial and operational creditors to initiate insolvency.
KYC & CDD
SEBI Endorses Technology Use to Facilitate Online KYC
By Editors | 27/04/2020
The investor KYC process can be completed through websites or apps, which should include video-based ID verification, liveness checks, and electronic signatures and documents.
Structural Regulation
SEBI Eases Buyback Rules to Enable ‘Quicker Access to Capital’
By Editors | 26/04/2020
Listed companies can raise additional capital after six months from the expiring of the buyback period, compared to one year previously.
Credit Risk
SEBI Eases Mutual Fund Valuation Norms for Debt Securities
By Editors | 26/04/2020
Valuation agencies need not consider payment delays and maturity extensions resulting from Covid-19 as defaults when valuing money market and debt securities held by mutual funds.
Credit Risk
Indian Banks Asked to Submit Lending Reports Daily
By Editors | 24/04/2020
The Finance Ministry has asked for data on the volume and scale of loans, as well as particulars on what sectors are getting them.
Structural Regulation
SEBI Proposed Exemptions for Investors in Distressed Companies
By Editors | 24/04/2020
The regulator proposes to tweak its pricing rules for preferential share allotments, and to exempt investors in distressed companies from having to make a open offer.
Structural Regulation
SEBI Relaxes Fundraising Rules for Rights Issues, IPOs
By Editors | 24/04/2020
SEBI has lowered the market cap requirement for fast tracking rights issues and extended the amount of time companies have to launch a public issue once approval is granted.
Trading & Investment
SEBI Extends Short Selling, Volatility Curbs Until 28 May
By Editors | 21/04/2020
SEBI has extended March measures that tightened market-wide position limits, raised margin rates, and capped on index derivatives positions.
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