Besides, the regulator has decided to classify ESOP Trust as a separate group of shareholding entities.
Market regulator Sebi on Wednesday proposed a new set of regulations for employee stock options, wherein certain restrictions imposed on companies for award of such allotments to staff members could be eased.
The Primary Market Advisory Committee of Sebi has suggested some changes and the market regulator had sought public comments on the recommendations.
Fintech firm One97 Communications' managing director and chief executive officer Vijay Shekhar Sharma has voluntarily surrendered 2.1 crore shares worth about Rs 1,800 crore, as per a regulatory filing and share closing price of the company.
A section of industry may need to begin compliance immediately, even as most states are yet to notify their rules.
Investors and startup executives are calling for extending the period for an entity to be recognised as a startup from 10 to 15 years for deep-tech companies.
Corporate giant Reliance Industries (RIL) on Tuesday said it has allotted 1.6 lakh shares to its employees under the Employees Stock Option Scheme (ESOP).
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Firms with low promoter holding may get to buy shares from secondary market.
Reliance Communications has announced an Employee Stock Options Scheme (ESOPs) that will cover over 20,000 employees, including its subsidiaries. The company's ESOPs committee has approved the grant of 17.5 million options to the eligible employees based on a specified criterion.
All board members and staff of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) will be required to declare their assets, liabilities, trading activities, and relevant relationships at multiple stages - at the time of appointment, annually, upon key events, and at exit. This is part of a series of recommendations by a high-level committee constituted by the markets regulator in a bid to overhaul conflict-of-interest and disclosure rules.
The company has allotted 21,173 shares of Rs 10 each to its employees on June 1, RIL said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. RIL is engaged in polymers, chemicals, fiber intermediates, petroleum, textiles and procurement business.
Reliance Industries, the country's most valuable company, has launched an employee stock option scheme to reward nearly half of its workforce.
HDFC has allotted 208,000 shares of Rs 10 each to its employees under stock option scheme.\n\n\n\n
TVS Electronics Ltd approved the issue of 2,11,000 options conferring a right to acquire equity shares of Rs 10 under employee stock option scheme and employee stock purchase scheme at Rs 70 per option/share.
HDFC MF has had a history of stock options and gave additional ESOPs to key staff a few months ago
Budget 2026 sticks to fiscal discipline, shuns populist measures despite five key state elections coming up, but ends up rattling stock markets with a higher transaction tax on derivatives trading.
Kale Consultants Ltd granted 7,50,000 options under an employees' stock option scheme.
A record amount of pension money may be finding its way into the stock market, if buying figures in the National Stock Exchange (NSE) data are any indication. Category inflows touched Rs 37,409 crore for the three months ending September 2025, shows an analysis of NSE data.
Merck Ltd's board will meet on January 27 to consider the employees stock option scheme.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Wednesday announced a slew of measures to ease the compliance burden in the stock markets ecosystem, encourage more companies to list on the bourses after reverse flipping to India, and facilitate greater foreign fund flows into government bonds.
Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd allotted 20826 equity shares of Rs 10 each under an employees stock option scheme.
Housing Development Finance Corp Ltd allotted 1,32,222 equity shares of Rs 10 each under the employees stock option scheme.
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In a relief for foreign firms giving loans to Indian subsidiaries, tax authorities have said goods and services tax (GST) will not be imposed on them, subject to some caveats. Additional fees, commissions, or related payments - over and above the amount charged as interest - on these loans will attract GST at 18 per cent, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has said.
The government is betting on the fact that it will be conducive for the new owner to give voluntary retirement scheme
The decision was taken at a board meeting of Sebi held in Mumbai.
The bank will offer shares to employees at a discount from market price.
Restricts buying by schemes from secondary market.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the benefit given to the staff of a company under the employees' stock option scheme cannot be considered as taxable income and the company was not obliged to deduct tax at source.
The 100 per cent withdrawal provision and the 25 per cent minimum balance provision have led to some confusion.
SEBI's blockbuster reforms are rewriting the rules of mutual fund investing -- faster growth, sharper transparency, and smarter safeguards that put investors first, explains Ramalingam Kalirajan.
The employee stock options, which lost its charm following the dot-com bust of late 90s and crashing markets, are regaining popularity with more and more companies using them to attract and retain talent, say industry insiders.
Securities and Exchange Board of India has amended the guidelines for employees stock option schemes to enhance disclosures and remove operational bottlenecks.\n\n\n\n
Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, the CM said, "There is no situation for revisiting it at the government level. There is no such intention, there is no such proposal."
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