The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is concerned about low participation by retail investors in recent initial public offerings (IPOs), according to a Business Standard report. Should the market regulator be worried?

Last week, this newspaper pointed out that although IPOs in India have been fairly good at delivering short-term returns, long-term performance has been weak. Only three in every 10 stocks deliver double-digit annual returns in the long term.

In the high-profile Sahara case, regulator Sebi is looking for a server hosting vendor for the mammoth task of providing electronic data storage and web access services for a database of 20 crore scanned pages.

In this long-running case, Sahara group was asked by the Supreme Court in August 2012 to submit all documents and deposit investors’ money with Sebi for refund purpose.

Tepid retail participation in the two recent marquee public floats-InterGlobe Aviation and Coffee Day Enterprises-has caught the eye of market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi). According to sources, Sebi is planning to raise the issue of low retail interest with investment bankers of the two transactions. The retail quotas in both the offerings were undersubscribed even as the issue was lapped up by institutional investors. The market regulator is also likely to take up the issue with the investment banking fraternity during their annual conference scheduled to be held on December 15.

Clamping down on illegal money pooling activities, capital markets regulator Sebi has barred Vasundhara Realcon and its directors from raising money from investors through issuance of securities.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India had received a complaint alleging that Vasundhara Realcon was collecting money through various schemes and investment plans.

Mumbai: To ring-fence the capital markets from any possible systemic issues and manipulations, regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) and the stock exchanges have beefed up their surveillance and risk management systems to tackle expected volatility in markets due to trouncing of Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance in the Bihar elections. The Bihar assembly election results on Sunday showed the Nitish Kumar-led Grand Alliance getting a huge majority after defeating the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the politically important state.

The capital markets regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), has directed Essar Oil to match its delisting price with that being paid by Russian oil giant Rosneft for a 49 per cent stake in the company.

The regulator has also agreed to certain relaxations sought by the company for its delisting bid.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Thursday approached the Supreme Court seeking transfer of a fresh plea filed by PACL from the Rajasthan High Court to the apex court.

Sebi has alleged that while PACL and its promoters had moved the Supreme Court against SAT’s August 12 order that directed it to refund close to over Rs 44,376 crore that it collected from around 58.5 million customers and winding up of its collective investment schemes (CIS), the real estate firm on October 12 again moved the Rajasthan HC seeking a direction to Sebi to register its CIS and for release of its sale deeds to enable it sell properties to raise money.

New York/Mumbai: Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) which is probing unusual movements this year in the shares of Castex Technologies Ltd, said it hasn’t yet found any signs of wrongdoing.

Some holders of Castex’s convertible bonds complained to the Sebi in September, alleging manipulation of its shares with an aim to inflate the price and trigger conditions for a mandatory conversion of the debt.

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.

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