Sebi can also sweeten it with a stipend of Rs 5,000 each and charge the Rs 240 crore to the Sahara account
Plea-bargaining finally comes to India and you can now resolve your disputes with Sebi through negotiations and settlement rather than litigation.
Drop in the number of schemes is less than 3%, despite merger of 38 schemes between Sept 2017 and May this year
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has reserved its order on the merger of Zee Entertainment Enterprises and with Culver Max Entertainment (earlier known as Sony Pictures Networks India). The Mumbai bench of NCLT, comprising H V Subba Rao and Madhu Sinha, reserved the order on Monday, after hearing arguments from creditors who objected to the scheme including Axis Finance, JC Flower Asset Reconstruction Co, IDBI Bank, Imax Corp and IDBI Trusteeship. In December 2021, Zee Entertainment and Sony Pictures had agreed to merge their businesses.
Sebi found that the broker had committed fraudulent, manipulative and unfair activities and has also been negligent in observance and compliance of the statutory requirement in conduct of its business as a stock broker.
While Sahara maintains it has already repaid more than 93 per cent of the outstanding dues directly to the concerned bondholders and the remaining amount was just about Rs 2,500 crore (Rs 25 billion), it deposited Rs 5,120 crore (Rs 51.2 billion) to Sebi in December 2012 towards the investor refunds as per Supreme Court orders.
The television channel is in hot water for not having made a public announcement in 2009 of a 'change of control' of the company.
Sebi says Sahara investors refunded over Rs 42 cr.
A mass fan following or a large number of views on a YouTube channel can't possibly constitute 'credentials'.
The whistle-blower may strongly feel about the issues he had raised.. the regulator will follow the due legal process and decide, Balakrishnan said.
Experts say the tighter share buyback norms will help ensure only companies with clean intentions come to the market.
Retail investors will soon have to obtain a net worth certificate from a chartered accountant and submit it to their broker, and their trading limits will be decided accordingly.
The visit to Sebi office would comprise slide shows for students regarding the capital market and Sebi's role as its regulator, as also an interactive session to answer questions from students.
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The Union Cabinet on Wednesday had approved the proposal to amend the Sebi Act and other relevant regulations that would give greater powers to the regulator in its efforts to tackle all kinds of money-collection schemes, as also to effectively crackdown on defaulters in the stock markets.
Capital markets regulator Sebi has amended norms to bring buying and selling of mutual fund units under the ambit of insider trading rules. At present, insider trading rules are applicable to dealing in securities of listed companies or those proposed to be listed, when in possession of Unpublished Price Sensitive Information (UPSI). The units of mutual funds are specifically excluded from the definition of securities under the rules.
The regulator will conduct forensic audit of all the seized documents, laptops, and mobile phones, which are suspected to be involved in the fraudulent activity, reports Shrimi Choudhary.
The proposed 'Investor Survey' would cover the entire country -- 29 states and 7 union territories -- and would have a sample size of approximately 50,000 households and 1000 market participants.
Shares of asset management companies (AMCs) have rallied in the last 3-4 sessions due to clarity on regulatory changes in total expense ratios (TER) and expectations that it won't upset profits much in the long run. HDFC AMC has gained over 12 per cent in the last four sessions, while Nippon AMC and UTI AMC are up around 5 per cent. Aditya Birla Sun Life (ABSL), the only other listed AMCs, has risen more than 2.3 per cent in the last four sessions.
Besides, the regulator has decided to classify ESOP Trust as a separate group of shareholding entities.
58-year old Vinod Hingorani had defaulted on penalties of Rs 1.64 cr
Property sold via HDFC Realty for Rs 58 cr; 60 properties on sale via e-auction
The regulator is more carefully scrutinising applications by infrastructure investment vehicles that have a limited number of investors. They have been asked to broaden their investor base before application approval, according to two people familiar with the matter. The Securities and Exchange Board of India is concerned about the structure being used for getting around tax requirements, according to one of the sources.
Leading exchange BSE on Wednesday asked Infosys to explain why it did not make a disclosure about a whistleblower complaint which alleged that the company's top executives were following "unethical practices" to shore up profits through irregular accounting ways.
Under Sebi guidelines, AIFs can operate broadly in three categories.
NSE Vice Chairman Ravi Narain has put in his papers amid regulators intensifying their probe into alleged lapses in high-frequency trading offered through the exchange's 'co-location' facility.
While most of Sebi's new norms are aligned to changes in Companies Act, they are more stringent in certain areas.
While the market regulator's recent note on portfolio management schemes has kicked up a storm, that is not the only pain point for businesses, says N Sundaresha Subramanian.
Sebi, which has been given powers to take action against all unregulated money pooling schemes worth over Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) besides all public issuances of securities, has issued this fresh caution notice at a time when a large number of people have been duped by numerous schemes in various states and enforcement action is underway against such operators.
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