To make start-up listing platform more attractive, regulator Sebi plans to relax norms by next month to help them tap this avenue for raising funds as also to give an easier exit opportunity to their existing investors including from abroad.

The platform is aimed at providing easier exit options for angel investors, domestic and foreign venture capital funds and private equity players, who have invested in over 3,000 start-ups, including in new technology space, in India.

Mumbai: India’s market regulator on Thursday began the mammoth task of auctioning off properties owned by the Sahara group of companies, spread over 4,700 acres, in order to raise the bail money needed for its jailed chairman Subrata Roy.

In advertisements published in national dailies, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said that it has put up for sale 10 properties at a reserve price of Rs.1,193.95 crore.

Nearly a year after the Amtek Auto crisis hit two schemes of JPMorgan Asset Management Company, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has said fund houses can't restrict investors' redemption requests till Rs 2 lakh. The markets regulator has permitted fund houses a partial restriction on redemptions in only emergency situations, meaning those which could lead to a systemic crisis. In a circular issued on Tuesday, it said recent instances of restrictions on redemption had necessitated a relook at the issue.

To recover dues, markets watchdog Sebi has ordered attachment of a total of 25 properties of Infinity Realcon, Weird Industries and Greenworld Agro Industries, which had raised money illegally from the public.

The properties being attached include land parcel, residential flat and commercial apartment.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has asked all listed companies to disseminate the cumulative impact of all audit qualifications in a separate format.

This is to ensure the information is available to investors. An audit qualification is typically a statement written upon the front page of any check done by a professional auditor. The management of the listed entity will have the option to explain its views on the audit qualifications.

Mumbai: Market regulator Sebi on Thursday notified rules aimed at banning wilful defaulters from raising money from the markets. The rules will impact companies and individuals categorized as 'wilful defaulter' by the RBI. The entities who could be banned include promoters and directors of a company, as well as the company.

A recent order by the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has brought to the fore the issue of lack of uniformity in actions taken by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in similar offences by different market participants.

Hearing an appeal filed by Almondz Global Securities Ltd, the tribunal quashed the remaining punishment against the merchant banker after highlighting the fact that similar offences by other entities saw a much lenient penal action by SEBI officials.

The Primary Markets Advisory Committee (PMAC) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is scheduled to meet on May 30 to discuss changes to the regulations relating to fund raising by start-ups.

Sources said changes that PMAC may approve, include decreasing the minimum lot size to Rs2.5 lakh from Rs10 lakh and reducing the minimum ticket size for participation in start-up initial public offerings (IPOs) to

The latest amendments to the holding structure of Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvIts) is likely to make the instrument more lucrative for the sponsors of the infrastructure assets to be put under business trust.

Stock markets regulator SEBI on Thursday allowed mandatory sponsor holding in InvIT to be reduced to 10% from current requirement of 25%, subject to certain conditions. SEBI also increased the number of sponsors from 3 to 5.

The board of directors of market regulator Securities Exchange Board of India (Sebi) will meet today to discuss changes to the participatory notes (P-notes) framework. Ahead of the board meet Sebi chief U K Sinha gave sneak peek into what the market regulator might do today.

Speaking on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association Summit, Sinha said, “SIT made some suggestion for us to make out some improvement in P-notes. We had our series of discussion and decision will be taken soon on this. Suggestion is there to get more information on P notes besides KYC norms which is already there in our present regulation.”

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