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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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Nivedita Shankar 12 September 2013
By mandating vigil mechanism for companies with borrowing of Rs50 crore, the Ministry has unnecessarily regulated such companies which may in nature be closely held companies, in which such a need may not arise at all In what had been only recommended for listed companies, the Companies...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 September 2013
SEBI has barred 34 entities, including Sunil Mehta, from markets for synchronised trading, creation of artificial volumes and price manipulation in scrips of eight companies Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has barred 34 entities from the securities market...

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Nidhi Ladha 11 September 2013
The new Companies Act has enhanced scope of auditors by mandating internal audit for such class of companies as may be specified, while by imposing civil liability on the auditors, the Act requires auditors to be more cautious and careful while auditing Following the trend in the US,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 September 2013
In response to Moneylife campaign for better disclosure of PMS data, a SEBI official has written to us defending the regulator’s stance. Here are the watchdog’s arguments, and our rebuttal For nearly two years, Moneylife has battled the regulator to get information on the performance of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 September 2013
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court also directed union and state government to apprise the Court about what has so far been done in the matter of issuance of Sahara Q Shop bonds or advances   The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on Monday issued notice to market...

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British banks and financial institutions were asked to shell out £1.3 billion in compensation for mis-selling insurance from Card Protection Plan. What lessons can we learn from this episode?   In a first of its kind, the UK regulator had, in November 2012, imposed the largest...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 September 2013
The commodities market regulator would now be controlled by the Finance Ministry instead of Consumer Affairs Ministry   Commodity markets regulator, Forward Markets Commission (FMC), will now be under the administrative control of the Finance Ministry. With this, all the financial...

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No Regulation, No Penalties One issue that gets minimal media coverage in India is that of ‘paid news’. The trading of awards, honours and gushing media coverage in return for fat sponsorship fees and advertisement campaigns is already very brazen, but it does not bother the political...

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Sucheta Dalal, Debashis Basu &Jason Monteiro 06 September 2013
The new Companies Bill and the Ordinance to amend the SEBI Act will create a monumental combined impact. Will the average saver benefit? Some 50 years after independent India enacted the Companies Act, a new Bill is ready to deliver a new and modern statute. Separately, exactly 25 years...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 September 2013
Having predicted the 2008 financial crash and been involved with the financial sector closely since then the RBI governor surely knows that the West has made consumer financial protection a centrepiece of financial sector regulation. How about setting the ball rolling in that direction in India...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 September 2013
After taking over charge as governor, Rajan said RBI actions will be at measured pace given the current market turmoil Raghuram Rajan has assumed charge as the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from D Subbarao. "This is not an easy time; the economy faces challenges. Our...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 September 2013
In an attempt to curb volatility, SEBI has modified the limits of the circuit filter of indices, which will now be calculated on a daily basis instead of on a quarterly basis Market regulator Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI), has modified the circuit filter mechanisms for stock...

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