These benefits would only be available to individuals and corporates, and professionals like auditors will not be able to use this route as they are duty-bound to report any wrongdoing.
In case they comply with the norms by April 14, they would not face trading suspension.
The Sensex gained 7,430.37 points, or 27.91 per cent, this year.
'The US investors are very enthusiastic about India and policy changes'.
The latest data disclosed the Sebi took up 107 cases for investigations in the last fiscal till December 2011 -- higher than the full-year figures since 2006-07.
RBI's licensing norms require a bank to bring down promoter holding to 40 % within 3 years of operation - which, for Bandhan Bank, will be by Aug 23
The Bill seeks to give Sebi sweeping powers like attachment of properties and launch of recovery proceedings.
Singh, who was instrumental in building required capabilities in the organisation said his role at Fortis did not allow him to spend time with his family, as the reason behind his resignation.
Sebi's main contention against brokers is that the NSEL was offering paired contracts and they were forward contracts, which were "illegal".
If you leave too much money lying in your trading account or hand over your securities to brokers, there is always the risk that they could use it to trade in the markets.
Supporting the capital market regulator Sebi's proposal for an independent auditing regulator in India, global auditing and consultancy major PwC has said there is an urgent need to have a strong and powerful watchdog for this business.
Going by the provisions of the new company law, the responsibility and accountability equation for independent directors has seen a major change.
FMC has been asked to go ahead with the appointment of 20 experts, which the commission had sought earlier.
After cautioning Indian markets about possible money laundering and terror-funding risks from Iran and North Korea, market regulator Sebi has issued a warning for funds from eight more countries, including Turkey and Ethiopia.
India's largest commodity bourse MCX is likely to launch its up to Rs 750 crore (Rs 7.5 billion) initial public offer (IPO) by month-end, becoming the first ever exchange in the country to get listed.
The realty major is awaiting orders for the second proceedings.
Besides, non-promoters with more than 10 per cent stake in the company would also be allowed to tap the OFS route.
Promoters and top executives intending to buy or sell shares of their companies might soon have to inform the market well in advance for such transactions.
The SAT asked Sebi as to what it was doing all these seven years and why it did not object to the revised IPO documents.
The Securities Appellate Tribunal adjourned the hearing on RIL plea against SEBI in the insider trading case, for the fourth time in a row, to July 22 as the company sought more time to file its response.
Calls on the Sebi's proposed multi-lingual toll free helpline will be recorded and tracked, as the market regulator aims at enhancing its mechanism to resolve investors' grievances and spread financial literacy.
Today, the single most popular route of laundering is the stock market platform, notes Debashis Basu.
Definition of voluntary offers rules out hostile bids, say corporate lawyers.
The probe has been settled through consent proceedings, an out-of-court like settlement under which Rs 500,000 have been paid towards settlement charges.
The promoters, instead, raised it to 63.15 per cent, while reporting they'd brought it down to 28.6 per cent.
Sebi has allowed mutual fund schemes the option of 'side-pocketing' which move will help both fund houses and investors.
DLF wrote to Sebi, asking if the firm's ban on securities transactions extends to mutual fund investments.
Operators of such trading rings allow people to trade in equities outside the stock exchange platform.
Sahara Group got other much-needed relief with the apex court lifting its embargo of permitting it to sell only 19 properties.
Sebi had acted against 10 brokerages after over 10,000 investors failed to get shares in last year's Coal India IPO in spite of legitimate applications.
Anil Ambani, chairman of the Reliance ADA Group, on Monday denied that the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) had banned his two group companies, Reliance Infra and Reliance Natural Resources, or their directors from participation in the capital market for any period.
MCX Stock Exchange (MCX-SX) continued its tirade against the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), alleging "discrimination" and "character assassination" while rejecting its application for launching a full-fledged stock exchange.
In a bid to make primary markets more efficient, the Securities and Exchange Board of India on Saturday said listing time gap would be reduced further from 6 days after the IPO currently, while listing will be allowed for security receipts issued by asset reconstruction company.
Jaitley also said that several states have framed laws to deal with ponzi scheme-related cases
The committee was appointed by market regulator Sebi in December 2009 to review the ownership and working of capital market infrastructure institutions.
Interception of electronic communication should also be covered in the powers being sought, the report said.
The threshold for identification of BOs of FPIs on controlling ownership interest is 25 per cent in case of companies and 15 per cent in case of partnership firms
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 ban on listing and other roadblocks on ownership have tainted the Jalan Committee report.