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Source: Live Mint Upcoming IPOs: Six major companies have now received approvals from the capital markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to raise funds via initial public offerings (IPOs). According to SEBI’s update on Monday, January 20, the draft papers of Hexaware Technologies, PMEA Solar Tech Solutions, Scoda Tubes, Ajax Engineering,…
Source: Live Mint At the 17th Mint BFSI Summit & Awards, Narayan outlined the regulator’s response to the frenzy in futures and options, by implementing targeted measures to curb egregious overtrading, particularly around expiry days. These steps, introduced in October 2024, aimed to address specific risks without burdening the entire F&O market with overly broad…
Source: Live Mint The Securities and Exchange Board of India has temporarily restrained the trading activities of Pacheli Industrial Finance Ltd (PIFL) following an alarming surge in the Mumbai-based company’s stock price and questions surrounding its financial dealings. The market watchdog also restrained six entities—the company’s preferential share allottees—from buying, selling, or dealing in PIFL…
Source: Live Mint The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) may revise the ₹500-crore exposure or open interest limit each in index futures and options introduced for institutional investors—foreign portfolio investors and mutual funds—after the covid-19 outbreak in March 2020. The markets regulator proposes to change the methodology for measuring open interest (OI), the…
Source: Live Mint Mumbai: India’s capital markets regulator is set to ease the registration of foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) if they want to invest in government-backed securities, even as it proposed doubling the equity investment threshold set for granular disclosures by FPIs to ₹50,000 crore. The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (Sebi) whole time…
Source: Live Mint The Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) recently released the updated half-yearly data on market capitalization classifications for listed stocks. As defined by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), largecaps are the top 100 companies by market capitalization, midcaps are ranked 101 to 250, and smallcaps are those ranked…
Source: Live Mint The market regulator tightened rules for independent advisers and research analysts by imposing deposit requirements and restrictions on the scope of advice to enhance transparency and protect investors. The new guidelines—following the amendment notified on 16 December—aim to reinforce compliance and ensure better segregation of services between independent advisers (IAs) and research…
Source: Live Mint The primary market is all set to witness opening of three new initial public offerings (IPOs) as markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) gives its green signal. Dr. Agarwal’s, Casagrand Premier and Regreen Excel EPC are among the companies which received approval from the markets regulator to raise funds…
Source: Live Mint Upcoming IPO: Chennai-based residential real estate developer Casagrand Premier Builder received market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (SEBI) nod to launch an initial public offer (IPO). The firm received final observations from SEBI on December 31, 2024, which in market parlance suggests approval for the IPO. Casagrand Premier Builder had…
Source: Live Mint Prior to investing in a mutual fund, investors are advised to evaluate the performance of different schemes in the same category to gauge their historical performance. This not only gives investors a peek into the scheme’s historical performance but also tempers their expectations of its future performance. For instance, when a scheme,…
