The competition between the bourses has assumed nasty proportions. The reason is NSE’s clout with the regulator, the government and the media.

A few weeks ago, SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) chairman CB Bhave congratulated the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE) for working together to create an exchange-based trading platform for mutual funds. He...

SEBI's consent orders are seen as a quick escape mechanism for anyone who is caught violating market regulations

One of the most industrious departments of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is the one that handles consent applications. It received 666 applications in 2008-09, which is equal to the total applications since the consent process was introduced, and this does not...

Decades of battering (through unresolved grievances) and discomfort with automated systems have systematically driven investors away from the markets

If corporate governance was the big, burning issue after the global corporate scandals at the turn of the century, financial literacy is the burning issue today, when the world is recovering from an economic crisis caused by speculative excess...