Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has cancelled Sahara Asset Management Company's license, saying it is not fit to carry out the business of mutual fund.

Sahara's fund management license would reportedly stand cancelled two months from the date of the order.

Markets regulator the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has intended to treat brokers of commodity exchanges at par with their counterparts at equity exchanges in terms of registration and transaction fee ahead of registration process.

In a meeting recently held with representatives of commodity broking fraternity, Sebi said that commodity brokers should be treated at par with equity brokers and therefore, pay uniform registration fee of Rs 50,000 per member as currently paid by equity brokers.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is not in favour of providing the details of the participatory note (PN) holders to the income tax department as desired by the Special Investigative Team (SIT) on black money.

A senior Sebi official told The Financial Express, “It will tantamount to a roving inquiry and that is not right and will hurt investment into the country as no investor would invest after knowing that his details are being given to the income tax department”.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) was gathering legal opinion on the listing of cooperatives, sources said.

Any group of individuals can form a cooperative society to act jointly for common benefit. Shares of cooperative societies in India are not offered to the public.

Market regulator Sebi is working on a platform for reporting securitisation deals, Reserve Bank of India deputy governor R Gandhi said on Tuesday.

Gandhi, speaking at an industry conference in Mumbai, said banks' drive to securitise priority sector loans will revive the segment.

Proxy advisory firm Institutional Investor Advisory Services (IiAS) has asked the market regulator to stick to its rules governing related party transactions (RPT). IiAS has slammed the recommendation by the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) to dilute the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) rules as an anti-investor move.

The MCA had asked Sebi to align its provisions regarding RPTs with the Companies Act 2013. “IiAS believes Sebi should hold its own. Sebi’s provisions on related party transactions protect minority interest, while MCA has diluted its position to promote the ‘ease of doing business’,” the firm said in a report on Thursday.

To safeguard capital markets from outside risks, regulator Sebi will soon issue a new set of guidelines to govern outsourcing by stock exchanges and other key entities in the marketplace.

The new guidelines will ensure that exchanges, clearing corporations and depositories do not outsource their core and critical activities to third-parties, while they would need to put in place a robust system to monitor outsourced activities on a real-time basis.

MUMBAI: India's market regulator on Tuesday said it will focus on the cost to a mutual fund investor as part of its customer protection measures.

Speaking at the CII Mutual Fund Summit here, Securities and Exchange Board of India chairman U K Sinha said consumer protection is one of the prime focus areas of Sebi and cost to investor will be an important aspect of the future course of action.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) today raised a red flag over distribution practices governing the mutual fund industry.

Speaking at the CII's Mutual Fund Summit in Mumbai, Sebi Chairman UK Sinha cited a survey of 25 jurisdictions. He said distributor commissions were over 2% in four of them and India was in the group of countries which had higher commissions.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is working on rules to regulate algorithmic trading effectively.

According to two sources familiar with the matter, among the points under consideration are means to slow down the pace of trading through introduction of measures, including a minimum resting time for orders before execution, and randomising the time priority of orders an exchange receives.

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