REGULATIONS


Moneylife Digital Team 28 October 2013
The apex court has asked Sahara group to hand over title deeds of properties worth Rs20,000 crore to SEBI within three weeks The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Sahara group to handover title deeds of properties worth Rs20,000 crore to market regulator Securities and Exchange Board...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 October 2013
The deadline for registering as an investment advisor under SEBI Investment Advisors Regulations has expired on 21st and apparently only 70 have registered. Clearly, nobody wants to advise; they want to sell products are earn commissions, a reality SEBI failed to realise, despite clear writing...

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Cs Vinita Nair  and   Pooja Rawal 25 October 2013
Meaning of KMPs under the Companies Act 2013 has come up for interesting debate, particularly the apparent mismatch between its definitions under various sections Key managerial personnel (KMP) sounds like the most important person of a company.  And why not, they do have an important...

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Vinita Nair  and   Pooja Rawal 14 October 2013
FII regulations prescribed by SEBI and QFI framework prescribed by both SEBI and RBI would be required to be repealed and replaced by a new framework for FPIs; amendments in FEMA and SEBI (ICDR) Regulations Driven by the rationale of having an integrated policy on foreign investments,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 October 2013
SEBI is expected to notify the new regulations within a week for listing start-ups and SMEs that would provide easier exit options for angel investors, VC and PE funds Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) will soon notify new norms for the listing of start-ups...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 October 2013
SEBI has spelt out the norms to be followed by the FPIs and their employees while rendering any investment advice through publicly accessible media Overseas investors coming through the newly created foreign portfolio investor (FPI) route would need to disclose their direct and indirect...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 October 2013
During 2007-09, Prayag Infotech allegedly mobilised Rs341 crore through issuance of preference shares from a large number of people without complying with various provisions of law Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has barred Prayag Infotech Hi-Rise Ltd and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 October 2013
During January-December 1998 percentage increase in other scrips varied from 140-340%, whereas DSQ shares zoomed 750% due to misleading statements from the company and its managing director, SEBI said Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has barred DSQ Software...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 October 2013
These changes are likely to help boost the interest of foreign investors, who tend to prefer clauses like 'right of first refusal, tag-along and drag-along' in their M&A deals Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Thursday allowed entities entering into merger...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 October 2013
Stock exchanges will have to take action against promoters of non-complaint companies before suspending their share trading as per the new guidelines from the market regulator Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has asked stock exchanges to take action against...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 September 2013
According to SEBI, the company planted false announcements in order to create an opportunity for Vinod Baid to offload his shares in the market at inflated prices and generate artificial interest in the scrip of Gennex Lab Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)...

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Nivedita Shankar 25 September 2013
The jurisdiction of CLB has been again extended to also include cases pertaining to rectification of register of members on matters other than transfer or transmission pursuant to section 59 of the new Companies Act A revamp of Companies Act, 1956 (the Act, 1956) had been in the making...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 September 2013
The Committee on Comprehensive Financial Services for Small Businesses and Low-Income Households has been tasked to develop a monitoring framework to track progress of financial inclusion across the country The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday announced a 13-member Committee,...

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Dr SD Israni 23 September 2013
How important and effective will the role of independent directors be in the view of the new Companies Act? Apublic company is a democratic institution working on the principle of ‘majority rule’. In other words, a promoter group with over 50% of the effective voting power could dictate...

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Prachi Narayan 19 September 2013
The new Companies Act has several provisions for non-bailable offences. What should you know when you get arrested? What are your rights ? And what are the implications of non-bailable offences? The Companies Act, 2013 (the Act) has brought in extensive changes with the objective to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 September 2013
While prohibiting NBFCs from issuing misleading, the central bank asked them to value gold jewellery accepted as collateral at the average of closing price of 22-carat gold in past 30 days Seeking to keep the demand for gold under check, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has tightened the...

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Regulators pretend all is well, in response to the most glaring violations we report A few weeks ago, the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) decided to break its established practice of responding to the media only through its communications department and sent us an aggressive...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 September 2013
The new norms would help in encouraging entrepreneurship in India by financing small start-ups at a stage where they find it difficult to obtain funds from traditional sources of funding such as banks or financial institutions   Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India...

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In a response to a Moneylife RTI, the Ministry of Finance has revealed that Rs4.72 crore of taxpayer’s money was spent on the members of the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission-FSLRC. It is time to standardise compensation norms of those who provide policymaking inputs A...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 September 2013
SEBI's measures come at a time when concerns are being raised about outflows of foreign capital and weakening of the rupee against the dollar and other foreign currencies Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) will soon notify new rules to make it easier for...

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