Following the AMFI approval, these entities would be given the clearance by CDSL Ventures Ltd, the nodal agency for MIN issuances.
Sources close to the developments said the company would announce the deal any day. Morgan Stanley is advising Standard Chartered on the deal.
Pharmaceutical is one of the key theme for 2007 at brokerage houses such as Religare Securities, Angel Broking and Pranav Securities.
London's AIM, Chinese and Korean exchanges interested.
International Finance Corporation, the private equity venture of the World Bank Group, DEG, one of the largest European development finance institutions, are eyeing a stake in State Industrial Corporation of Maharashtra.
After the National Stock Exchange, the focus has now shifted to stake sale soon in two depositories, the National Securities Depository and the Central Depository Services.
The Bombay Stock Exchange is learnt to have shortlisted London, Nasdaq, Deutsche Borse, New York, and Singapore stock exchanges for the proposed sale of its 26 per cent stake.
With the deadline for furnishing details of permanent account number lapsing on December 31, a quarter of the 98.5 lakh (9.85 million) demat accounts will be frozen from January 1.
Fund houses' tie-ups with the postal department for marketing their schemes through post offices are yet to take off in a bigger way.
The Tokyo-based Shinsei Bank is all set to foray into the Indian mutual fund business by forming a joint venture asset management company with Andhra Bank.