SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA

Securities / Derivatives

SEBI Asks Exchanges to Review Commodity Derivatives Performance

By Editors | 05/02/2020

Performance reviews of commodity derivatives contracts should be conducted each year to ensure alignment with the physical markets.

Securities / Derivatives

BSE, NSE Launch New Trading Platforms for Debt Securities

By Editors | 04/02/2020

BSE India launched its new RFQ Platform on Monday and NSE on Tuesday. The platforms offer greater transparency and access to debt securities for eligible investors.

Securities / Derivatives

SEBI Sets Position Limits for Gift City Rupee Derivatives

By Editors | 04/02/2020

Brokers, institutional investors and eligible foreign investors can hold gross open positions in rupee futures and options contracts up to $1bn or 15% of total open interest, whichever is higher.

Securities / Derivatives

SEBI Approves MSE Launch of Weekly Interest Rate Futures

By Editors | 31/01/2020

The Metropolitan Stock Exchange has become the first Indian exchange to receive SEBI’s approval to launch weekly interest rate futures contracts.

AML / KYC

SEBI Panel Proposes Tighter Norms for Related Party Transactions

By Editors | 29/01/2020

Any member of the promoter group would be deemed a related party regardless of shareholding. Any shareholder with more than 20% of a listed company’s shares would also be deemed a related party.

Securities / Derivatives

SEBI Prescribes New Margin Framework or Commodity Derivatives

By Editors | 28/01/2020

Clearing corporations are asked to categories commodity derivatives as low, medium and high risk, and to set new IM and MPOR floors.

AML / KYC

SEBI to Augment Social Media Monitoring to Fight Manipulation

By Editors | 24/01/2020

SEBI is working on a ‘data lake’ project that will use AI, machine learning and NLP tech to analyse unstructured data and augment market surveillance.

Securities / Derivatives

RBI Permits Gift City Trading of Rupee Derivatives

By Editors | 21/01/2020

The move will help address demands from overseas participants for the availability of better tools to hedge India exposures.

Securities / Derivatives

SEBI Mandates Additional Disclosures for Debt Securities

By Editors | 21/01/2020

Under the new format, listed companies need to disclose deviations in the use of debt issuance proceeds from the objects stated in their offer documents.