Market regulator Sebi on Friday relaxed guidelines pertaining to setting up cyber security operations centre for small market intermediaries as they lack knowledge in cyber security.

The decision has been taken after discussions with market participants, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said in a circular.

In a series of reforms, market regulator SEBI has allowed mutual funds “to allow mutual funds to create segregated portfolios with respect to debt and money market instruments subject to various safeguards”. The creation of segregated portfolios is a mechanism which is followed to separate distressed, illiquid and hard-to-value assets from other more liquid assets in a portfolio. SEBI has also cleared easing of norms to start startup listings.

Capital market regulator Sebi board on Wednesday eased norms to start start-up listings and allowed mutual funds to segregate distressed assets to safeguard investment returns.

A Sebi board meeting in Mumbai also approved a proposal to expand the offer-for-sale mechanism for reduction of stake in listed companies and relaxed clubbing of investment limit norms for well-regulated foreign investors.

Sebi Friday asked market infrastructure institutions to set up a round-the-clock cyber security operation centre manned by dedicated security analysts to identify, respond, recover and thwart cyber attacks. The cyber security operation centre (C-SOC) of market infrastructure institutions (MIIs) — clearing corporations, depositories and exchanges– need to prevent cyber attacks through proactive actions including continuous threat analysis.

Market regulator Sebi on Monday extended the deadline for transfer of shares of listed companies only in demat form to April 1.

The last date has been extended after taking into consideration representations from shareholders as the initial deadline was to end on December 5.

Mumbai: Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd founder and managing director Dilip Shanghvi and his brother-in-law Sudhir Valia engaged in financial irregularities with Dharmesh Doshi, a key figure from the 2001 Ketan Parekh scam, a whistleblower alleged. The whistleblower made the allegations in a 150-page letter sent to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), which had banned Doshi and Parekh following the 2001 scam, India’s second biggest stock exchange scandal. Doshi is a former associate of Parekh.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has initiated an inquiry into the affairs of pharma major Sun Pharmaceutical Industries on the basis of a whistle-blower complaint, said regulatory sources.

The sources said the market regulator was in receipt of a 150-page letter in which the whistle-blower accused the company of committing corporate governance and tax-related lapses, besides other securities market-related violations.

ICICI Prudential Asset Management and its CEO Nimesh Shah have settled a probe initiated by the Securities and Exchange Board of India into the alleged violation of mutual fund norms over their investments in the initial public offering of ICICI Securities.

While the fund house has paid Rs 89.96 lakh, managing director & CEO Nimesh Shah has remitted Rs 6.8 lakh towards settlement fees, the market regulator said on Thursday.

November so far hasn't seen a single draft filing of new fund offers in equity schemes from asset management companies (AMCs), according to data available with Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).

Experts feel the mutual fund houses have slowed down in expanding their product basket in equity schemes after the market regulator last year expressed its displeasure for "me-too"

The Supreme Court has allowed markets regulator Sebi to go ahead with certain proposed amendments to self regulatory organisation (SRO) regulations, including appointment as SRO, that are necessary to regulate mutual fund products.

A Bench led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi accepted Sebi’s plea that the selection process for appointment as SRO for distribution of Mutual Fund (MF) products is required in the public interest.

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