Markets regulator Sebi has drastically slashed the 'additional expense' charged by mutual funds to just 5 basis points to help increase the penetration of such products among investors.

The move will help reduce the cost of investing in MFs and industry players believe that it may result in lower commissions for distributors.

Continuing with efforts to clean up its balance sheet, the country’s largest lender, State Bank of India, has put on sale non-performing assets (NPAs) worth over Rs 13 billion. Banks intend to sale these bad loans, covering sectors such as steel and textile on a 100 per cent basis.

There are 12 corporate accounts from branches in Chandigarh, Kolkata and Hyderabad.

Maruti Suzuki‘s big milestone: India’s largest automaker by market capitalisation Maruti Suzuki has achieved yet another feat with manufacturing 2 crore cars in less than 35 years. The stock of Maruti Suzuki is the costliest scrips among all the listed companies (excluding auto ancillary companies) on Indian bourses — NSE and BSE.

Tata Motors has created an electric vehicles vertical and appointed current head of business strategy, Shailesh Chandra, as its president with immediate effect, the automobile firm said in a statement on Monday.

Chandra has played an “instrumental role in leading the project teams” to deliver the electric variant of the compact sedan Tigor to EESL (Energy Efficiency Services Ltd)—the state-owned firm that will procure and lease electric vehicles to the central and state governments.

Microsoft Corp. has agreed to acquire GitHub Inc., the code repository company popular with many software developers, and could announce the deal as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. GitHub preferred selling the company to going public and chose Microsoft partially because it was impressed by Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.

Shares of HDFC Bank have slipped by 2.5% at Rs 2,058 per share, falling 4.6% from their early morning high on the National Stock Exchange (NSE), after more than 10-million equity shares changed hands on the counter through multiple block deals.

Till 10:17 am; around 13.41 million equity shares representing 0.63% of total equity of HDFC Bank have changed hands on the NSE, the exchange data shows.

Country’s largest lender SBI, which has not been able to invest in fintech startups despite earmarking funds, is now looking to modify rules to kickstart the infusion, a top official has said.

“We are a public institution and investments in startups are generally considered very risky. We understand that traditional way of investing will not work,” chairman Rajnish Kumar told PTI on the sidelines of an event here over the weekend.

Amid stand-off with iPhone maker Apple, Trai has inserted a clause in its proposed regulation on pesky calls, which will make it compulsory for all devices to provide access to call logs and SMSes required for the functioning of ‘do-not-disturb’ kind of mobile apps.

“Every access provider shall ensure that all devices registered on its network shall support all permissions required for the functioning of such apps as prescribed in the Regulations 6 (2) (e) and regulations 24 (2),” Trai said in a corrigendum to draft rules on May 30.

Markets regulator Sebi has slapped a fine of Rs 1 crore on Green Ray International and its four promoters and directors for not complying with its directions to refund the money collected by the company under collective investment schemes (CIS) from the investors.

State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) logged a Rs 4,000 crore loss on natural gas output in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2018 as the Government mandated price for the fuel was less than the cost of production.

“We need at least $4 per million British thermal unit to break-even as compared to current gas price of $3.06 per mmBtu,” a senior company official said.

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