Markets regulator Sebi has invited bids from BPOs and call centres to set-up helpline service, where agents will attend investor calls on issues related to IPOs and commodity derivatives.

While the helpline has been proposed to be set up with 30 agents initially, it can be extended up to 50 seats.

Munbai: Four months after the capital markets regulator made it easier for start-ups to raise money and trade on Indian stock exchanges, no entrepreneur has moved to seek a local listing, preferring instead to raise funds from venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) firms or individual angel investors.

Tough promoter holding norms set by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), uncertainties about the valuations start-ups can attract and doubts over how liquid stocks would be after a listing are deterring start-ups from raising money through initial public offerings (IPOs), market participants say.

Having slapped orders against Sumangal Industries for running illicit money-pooling schemes, markets regulator Sebi today cautioned general public against any collective investment schemes run by the company and entities associated with it.

In a 'caution notice' issued today, Sebi said that it had passed an order in July 2013 against Sumangal Industries, wherein, the firm, its promoters/directors were directed to wind up the existing Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) and refund the money to investors within three months.

MUMBAI: Markets regulator Sebi is open to making changes in rules regulating innovative financial products, including exchange-traded funds, to spur their growth if market players and experts give their inputs, provided such rule changes are positive for investors.

"Based on inputs from experts or participants, if there is any need that further changes are required for rules and regulations of ETFs, Sebi will be more than willing to listen to you and incorporate those changes," Sebi chairman U K Sinha said.

Reliance Industries today became the first corporate to sign the revised listing agreement with the BSE as mandated under the newly introduced Listing Regulation notified by SEBI.

Earlier, the listing agreement was a bilateral agreement between the stock exchange and the company and market regulatory SEBI didn't have regulations on this. Thus each company's agreement with stock exchange could be at variance and lacking the full force of SEBI's rigour.

Indian markets have seen their biggest reforms and policy changes happening after a scam reminds policy makers of the loopholes in the system. Open outcry system gave way to electronic exchanges after the Harshad Mehta scam. The dematerialisation scam resulted in strict KYC (Know Your Clients) norms being implemented by brokers. The latest Jignesh Shah--NSEL scam has resulted in tighter norms for commodity exchanges and the commodity regulator FMC (Forward Market Commission) itself being merged with market regulator SEBI.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has moved the Supreme Court, seeking a restraint order on the plans of realty major DLF to monetise its rental properties. The court has admitted the application and listed it for hearing on October 30.

Last week, debt-laden DLF had said some promoter group entities planned to sell about 40 per cent stake in DLF Cyber City Developers, the company holding its rental assets, to third-party investors. The transaction was to raise Rs 12,000-14,000 crore.

Sebi will soon allow the companies to file ten-page abridged prospectus for initial public offers (IPO) as part of its efforts to help disseminate information in a more investor-friendly manner.

The abridged document would have only 10 pages without compromising on information that an investor is required to know, Sebi’s Executive Director (Corporation Finance Department) P K Nagpal said.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Tuesday exempted the Centre from the takeover code obligations for its investment in Dena Bank, Bank of India and Corporation Bank.

The Central government plans to infuse Rs 407 crore in Dena Bank, Rs 2,455 crore in Bank of India and Rs 857 crore in Corporation Bank. The infusion of capital, part of the government’s ‘Indradhanush’ initiative, would have triggered an open offer as the government’s stake in these banks would have increased by more than five per cent.

To recover the investors’ money collected illegally by Saradha Realty, regulator Sebi has ordered attachment of 134 properties of the West Bengal-based firm and its chief Sudipta Sen to recover Rs 774.3 crore along with other dues and the applicable interest.

The properties being attached include land parcels, buildings, flats, resorts, furniture, televisions, refrigerators, generators and computers along with all other “movable assets” held by the two defaulters.

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