The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is set to overhaul the insider trading norms, first framed two decades ago. The regulator is expected to approve the new norms at its board meeting on November 19.

Sources in the know said the new rules would be far more stringent than the regulations currently in place but not as strict as those mentioned in the draft document circulated in December last year.

To push to participation in the government's disinvestment programme, the finance ministry has written to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to promote awareness among retail investors about the coming issues of public sector units (PSUs).

As the government is planning to tap the markets through the auction route, retail investors might not find it easy to bid. The finance ministry has told Sebi it should try to spread awareness through tickers on TV channels, websites and bulk messages.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has proposed that bank funding to listed small and medium enterprises (SMEs) be given a priority lending tag.

The move will give a huge fillip to the SME trading platform introduced by Sebi in 2012, to ease the financing needs of smaller companies.

Markets remained rangebound with negative bias in noon trades on Monday with auto shares leading the decline on the back of weak October sales while bank shares continued to trade firm.

At 13:00hrs, the 30-share Sensex was down 21 points at 27,845 and the 50-share Nifty was trading 8 points lower at 8,314.

The Securities Appellate Tribunal on Thursday asked DLF to file an affidavit by November 3, explaining why it wants to redeem investments in mutual funds and how much money it is planning to draw.

The real estate giant has investments worth Rs 2,500 crore in mutual funds. It has appealed to the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) against a order of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) banning it from accessing the capital market for three years.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has received complaints that PACL (Pearl Agrotech Corporation Limited) continues to collect money from investors, defying the market regulator’s ban.

The market regulator, also entrusted with the responsibility of cracking down on illicit money collection schemes, plans to issue an advisory, cautioning investors against investing in schemes offered by the Delhi-based company.

Hit hard by a Sebi order barring it from capital markets, realty giant DLF today appealed for an interim relief from the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) to allow it to redeem thousands of crores worth funds locked in mutual funds and other securities.

After hearing the petition, filed by the country's largest real estate developer last week, the Tribunal adjourned the matter till October 30 next week, as it sought a response from capital markets regulator Sebi on DLF's plea.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) had changed its mind on the treatment of ICICI Bank shares that came into the accounts of promoter group entities of Bank of Rajasthan (BoR), led by Pravin Kumar Tayal, following the merger of the two entities in 2010.

In August 2010, it had taken a view that the merger would not affect the ban on the promoter group entities from the securities market. Nearly two years later, it said as the merger had been approved by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the promoters could be allowed to sell these shares.

Following the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) barring DLF’s promoters from capital markets, the company stock fell to its all-time low on Thursday. Subsequently, the shares gained, as traders recovered short positions.

On Thursday, the stock closed at Rs 110.35 on the BSE, up 5.2 per cent, after falling to Rs 100.1 in intra-day trade, down 4.6 per cent from its previous close. The BSE Sensex and the National Stock Exchange Nifty benchmarks closed down 1.3 per cent and 1.5 per cent, respectively.

Real estate major DLF's wait to cut its debt could get longer because of the recent order by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) banning the former from capital markets for three years.

Early last year, DLF had said it would reduce debt, which at that time stood at Rs 21,000 crore, to Rs 10,000-11,000 crore. In May this year, the company said its plans to cut debt would be delayed by two years, owing to subdued market conditions.

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