The list of 260 entities barred by the capital markets regulator on Friday contains many habitual offenders. First Financial Services has on previous occasions been pulled up by the BSE, National Stock Exchange (NSE) and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).

While Radford Global, another entity barred by the Sebi, has never been pulled up before, at least a dozen entities related to Radford have been pulled up by Sebi and both NSE and BSE on previous occasions, showed an analysis of past orders based on data from an exchange-sponsored investor-protection website.

Kolar Biotech Chairman Vinod Hingorani had told his mother he would return to his rented apartment on Mira Road here by 2 pm on Thursday. But by evening, he found himself in Byculla Jail, the first person to be sent to jail by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).

The market regulator said Hingorani had defaulted on penalties of Rs 1.65 crore.

The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) adjourned the hearing of real estate major DLF after arguments were heard in the first session on Thursday.

The appeal is set to continue in the afternoon. The tribunal hears appeals against decisions of the stock market regulator.

As the government seeks to create a vibrant, deep and liquid corporate bond market, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has approached the Reserve Bank of India and ministry of corporate affairs, among others, to address impediments in this regard.

Sebi has also proposed allowing reissuance of existing debt securities by a corporate issuer within the specified time, rather than launching a new issue.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said on Tuesday the norms covering research analysts' recommendations would also apply to journalists.

"Sebi (Research Analyst) Regulations, 2014, cover any person, including journalists, who make public appearance or make comments through the public media for giving opinion or recommendations concerning securities or on public offers," Sebi stated on its website on Tuesday.

Concerned that ‘self-trades’ are disturbing market equilibrium, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is planning penal action against market participants doing this.

Sources say the market regulator has seen an increase in such trades, with the aim of creating artificial volumes and to manipulate prices. Trades where the buyer and seller are the same and not resulting in a change of ownership are termed self-trades. Typically, these occur when multiple dealers from the same broking house carry out trades using the same client code.

To help channelise household savings and provide a new investment avenue, market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) will soon come out with a new set of norms to enable issuance and listing of municipal bonds - a popular financial product in developed countries.

Under the proposed framework, currently under consideration of Sebi, municipal bonds would be debt securities issued by states, cities and other government entities which will use the money for infrastructure developments such as buildings, schools, highways, hospitals, sewage systems and other projects for the public good. An internal Sebi panel, the Corporate Bonds and Securities Advisory Committee (CoBoSAC) had constituted a sub-committee to specify the disclosure and other requirements for issuance and listing of municipal bonds.

Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India has found 22 public sector firms including Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Coal India, and Indian Oil Corporation to have violated various capital-market guidelines.

Meanwhile the State Bank of India has filed for the settlement of a case against it to the regulator, Parliament was informed on Friday.

Capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi)'s crackdown on shady foreign flows will impact only a minuscule part of outstanding investments under the participatory note (P-note) route.

According to an assessment done by the regulator, only about $550 million (Rs 3,400 crore) worth of P-notes are held by entities that don't qualify under the country's new Foreign Portfolio Investor (FPI) regulations. That's around 1.3 per cent of the total value of P-note investments, debt and equity, as on October 2014. According to Sebi data, the total value of investments coming through this route -typically used by entities that are not directly registered with Sebi - stood at Rs 2,65,675 crore ($43 billion).

Sebi has directed Moneyworld Research to immediately stop providing investment advisory services with regard to the securities market and withdraw all the related advertisements.

Securities and Exchange Board of India said it prima facie found that Moneyworld Research and Advisory Pvt Ltd was offering trading tips to investors without obtaining requisite registration to act as an investment adviser.

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