Indian regulators have launched an unprecedented drive to boost corporate transparency, bombarding firms with disclosure demands, but clumsy execution has created suspicions of a box-ticking exercise that may not entirely achieve its aim.

Poor disclosure among India-listed firms is a turnoff for foreign investors, a weakness Asia's third-largest economy can ill afford as competition for overseas capital heats up among emerging markets in expectation of higher U.S. interest rates.

Small investors are best advised to enter the stock market through institutions such as mutual funds and pension funds, Sebi Chairman U K Sinha said today while asserting that he was not worried if smaller investors do not participate in IPOs directly.

Sinha also emphasised that the regulator has put in place all necessary measures to check any manipulations in the primary markets, even as various attempts have been made in the past to manipulate the IPOs.

This year’s India International Trade Fair 2015, Delhi, (IITF) has something new besides handicraft, food, gadgets and machines. Vying with the other stalls is one from the market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), whose pavilion is named ‘Bharat Kaa Share Bazaar’. Next to Sebi’s pavilion is one by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The main purpose is to engage public to increase financial literacy and investor awareness.

New Delhi: The Securities and Exchange Board of India, or Sebi, on Thursday slapped a fine of Rs.1.84 crore on Arun Jain, chairman and managing director of Polaris Software Lab Ltd, Rs.19.69 lakh on R. Srikanth, the company’s ex-chief financial officer, for allegedly making illegitimate gains through trading in shares of the company while in the possession of unpublished price sensitive information in 2008.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is set to unveil rules on monitoring the end use of green bonds, and might propose incentives for companies to issue them at its board meeting on November 30 (next Monday).

“Sebi is working on regulations that will incentivise companies to launch green bonds. We would like these bonds to be listed on the domestic exchanges instead of on overseas exchanges,” said a source privy to the development.

Capital markets watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has ordered to impound the unlawful gains worth over Rs 10 crore from Jagran Prakashan's Company Secretary Amit Jaiswal and his wife after finding them guilty in an insider trading case.

The SEBI found that Amit Jaiswal and his wife, Mansi, had traded in the shares of the company during August-October of 2009 while possessing price-sensitive information and allegedly made unlawful gains in the process.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is concerned about low participation by retail investors in recent initial public offerings (IPOs), according to a Business Standard report. Should the market regulator be worried?

Last week, this newspaper pointed out that although IPOs in India have been fairly good at delivering short-term returns, long-term performance has been weak. Only three in every 10 stocks deliver double-digit annual returns in the long term.

In the high-profile Sahara case, regulator Sebi is looking for a server hosting vendor for the mammoth task of providing electronic data storage and web access services for a database of 20 crore scanned pages.

In this long-running case, Sahara group was asked by the Supreme Court in August 2012 to submit all documents and deposit investors’ money with Sebi for refund purpose.

Tepid retail participation in the two recent marquee public floats-InterGlobe Aviation and Coffee Day Enterprises-has caught the eye of market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi). According to sources, Sebi is planning to raise the issue of low retail interest with investment bankers of the two transactions. The retail quotas in both the offerings were undersubscribed even as the issue was lapped up by institutional investors. The market regulator is also likely to take up the issue with the investment banking fraternity during their annual conference scheduled to be held on December 15.

Clamping down on illegal money pooling activities, capital markets regulator Sebi has barred Vasundhara Realcon and its directors from raising money from investors through issuance of securities.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India had received a complaint alleging that Vasundhara Realcon was collecting money through various schemes and investment plans.

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