Mumbai: A SEBI working group has proposed a host of changes to make Portfolio Management Services (PMS) in India, more transparent and investor friendly.

Key changes include increasing the minimum investment in PMS from ₹25 lakh to ₹50 lakh, standardizing reporting requirement and moving distributors from upfront to trail model.

Markets regulator Sebi Tuesday imposed a total fine of Rs 17 lakh on two entities for executing fraudulent trades in the illiquid stock options segment on the BSE. The two entities, Dippy Investments Pvt Ltd, Dhan Stock and Share Brokers Pvt Ltd were fined Rs 12 lakh and Rs 5 lakh, respectively as per Sebi’s separate orders.

Markets watchdog Sebi on Friday eased the conditions for exchanges to provide incentives under liquidity enhancement schemes (LES) in the first five years of operation.

Under the scheme, brokers and other market intermediaries are given incentives for a specified period of time to bring in liquidity and generate investor interest in securities, which have limited trading activity.

Mumbai: Securities market regulator Sebi on Tuesday directed Hotel Leela Venture (HLVL) to provide information via "additional disclosures in the postal ballot notice" of the asset sale transaction with Brookfield.

Markets regulator Sebi has announced uniformity in reporting of violations related to Code of Conduct under Sebi (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015. Market regulator stated that it has been receiving various references from listed companies regarding the violations related to the code of conduct.

In light of a spate of resignations by auditors and many not stating the reasons for such decisions, markets regulator Sebi on Thursday put out a consultation paper on policy proposals with respect to resignation of statutory auditors from listed entities, asking for suggestions on the new framework.

The Securities Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has proposed that if the auditor of a listed entity has signed the audit report for all the quarters of a financial year, except the last quarter,

Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) Chairman Ajay Tyagi has written to the finance ministry, seeking a review of the Budget proposal that mandates transferring 75 per cent of the market regulator's surplus funds to the central government, it is learnt.

In a letter to the ministry on July 10, Tyagi said the proposed move, part of the Finance Bill, 2019, would affect the functioning of Sebi as well as the securities market.

Markets regulator Sebi levied a fine of Rs 5 lakh on GKS Properties for executing non-genuine trades in the illiquid stock options segment at BSE. The ruling follows an investigation conducted by Sebi in the stock options segment of the bourse between April 2014 and September 2015. During investigation, Sebi noted that 81.38 per cent of all trades executed in the segment at BSE were the ones which involved reversal of buy and sell positions by the clients and counterparties in a contract on the same day, thereby creating artificial volume in the stock options segment.

Ahead of the response it has sought from the company regarding complaints by co-promoter Rakesh Gangwal over alleged violations of corporate governance, the Securities Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Thursday summoned IndiGo’s company secretary Sanjay Gupta.

Gupta has been company secretary and chief compliance officer at IndiGo since August 2016.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has initiated a preliminary enquiry into alleged corporate governance issues at InterGlobe Aviation, which operates IndiGo. According to sources in the know, the market regulator is likely to seek further details from the co-promoters of the company to ascertain the veracity of the matter.

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