U K Sinha

Parliament on Thursday passed the Factoring Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which will help the micro, small and medium enterprises sector.

Sebi raised the total number of angel investors allowed to invest in a scheme to 200 from 49 and reduced the minimum investment amount to Rs 25 lakh ($36,411.04) from Rs 50 lakh.

Currently, it takes six days after the close of bidding in the IPO for a company to list on stock exchanges, thus keeping the investors' funds locked in for a longer period of time.

Sebi Chairman U K Sinha on Tuesday said he has directed his team to begin working towards reducing the listing-gap to meet the global standards.

The government on Monday initiated the search for a successor to Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman U K Sinha, whose extended term ends on March 1, 2017.

Securities and Exchange Board of India chief U K Sinha on Thursday said various regulatory measures have been instrumental in reviving the primary market and exuded optimism that the current year will be one of the best for IPOs.

With an aim to help municipalities raise capital from markets, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) Chairman U K Sinha on Thursday said these local bodies need to do away with old accounting practices and adopt new mechanism to improve their credit ratings.

With an aim to give capital markets a big push, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is likely to ease out regulations for real estate investment trusts (REITs) and infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs) this month.

Sebi Chairman U K Sinha on Tuesday said investors in the US have a high level of optimism about India, especially because of the policy initiatives in the past two years by the Modi government.

After securing exemption from service tax this fiscal year onwards, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has asked the government to exempt it from this liability with retrospective effect from July, 2012.

It was the need for "continuity" amid an excessive capital market volatility that led to the government giving a second extension to U K Sinha as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) - a post for which 50 candidates including top bureaucrats, eminent bankers and senior Reserve Bank officers had applied.

Sebi Chairman U K Sinha, who is visiting the US including Silicon Valley to hard-sell India growth story among the investors there, had said in a recent interaction that the regulations are being looked into again.

BSE, Asia's oldest stock exchange, plans to sell up to 30 per cent stake in its much-awaited initial public offer (IPO), which is expected to hit the market this financial year.

Allaying concerns about any further misuse of participatory notes, or 'P-Notes', Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman U K Sinha has said Indians can no longer use these offshore instruments, even indirectly, and a strong safety net has been put in place to check any routing of black money.

The head of India's capital markets regulator said on Wednesday it would increase monitoring of brokers and auditors and issue draft proposals for high frequency trading, laying out an ambitious agenda for itself in the year ahead.

Parliament on Thursday passed the Factoring Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which will help the micro, small and medium enterprises sector.

Sebi raised the total number of angel investors allowed to invest in a scheme to 200 from 49 and reduced the minimum investment amount to Rs 25 lakh ($36,411.04) from Rs 50 lakh.

Currently, it takes six days after the close of bidding in the IPO for a company to list on stock exchanges, thus keeping the investors' funds locked in for a longer period of time.

Sebi Chairman U K Sinha on Tuesday said he has directed his team to begin working towards reducing the listing-gap to meet the global standards.

The government on Monday initiated the search for a successor to Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman U K Sinha, whose extended term ends on March 1, 2017.

Securities and Exchange Board of India chief U K Sinha on Thursday said various regulatory measures have been instrumental in reviving the primary market and exuded optimism that the current year will be one of the best for IPOs.

With an aim to help municipalities raise capital from markets, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) Chairman U K Sinha on Thursday said these local bodies need to do away with old accounting practices and adopt new mechanism to improve their credit ratings.

With an aim to give capital markets a big push, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is likely to ease out regulations for real estate investment trusts (REITs) and infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs) this month.

Sebi Chairman U K Sinha on Tuesday said investors in the US have a high level of optimism about India, especially because of the policy initiatives in the past two years by the Modi government.

After securing exemption from service tax this fiscal year onwards, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has asked the government to exempt it from this liability with retrospective effect from July, 2012.

It was the need for "continuity" amid an excessive capital market volatility that led to the government giving a second extension to U K Sinha as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) - a post for which 50 candidates including top bureaucrats, eminent bankers and senior Reserve Bank officers had applied.

Sebi Chairman U K Sinha, who is visiting the US including Silicon Valley to hard-sell India growth story among the investors there, had said in a recent interaction that the regulations are being looked into again.

BSE, Asia's oldest stock exchange, plans to sell up to 30 per cent stake in its much-awaited initial public offer (IPO), which is expected to hit the market this financial year.

Allaying concerns about any further misuse of participatory notes, or 'P-Notes', Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman U K Sinha has said Indians can no longer use these offshore instruments, even indirectly, and a strong safety net has been put in place to check any routing of black money.

The head of India's capital markets regulator said on Wednesday it would increase monitoring of brokers and auditors and issue draft proposals for high frequency trading, laying out an ambitious agenda for itself in the year ahead.