On 30th May, SEBI put out a proposed report to regulate Participatory Notes (P-Notes) more closely. It may be recollected that when SEBI permitted Foreign Institutional Investors to invest in India, these FIIs were required to register with SEBI by going through the stringent KYC and other reporting and compliance requirements. However, many smaller investors …
A Brief Overview The ease of access to the internet and information has drastically altered the way in which we engage with the stock markets and investment tools. Now that you can make investments and trade on the stock markets online, traditional brokerage firms have had to get along with the times. This has meant …
Capital markets regulator SEBI is mulling the idea of allowing foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) to enter the exchange-traded commodity derivatives market even as its advisory committee may take up the subject for discussion in its next meeting, scheduled for November 15. The commodity derivatives advisory committee (CDAC) is a body that is mandated by SEBI to suggest …
Women are taking to the stock markets like never before. And aptly so. As the world observes another Women’s Day, it is significant that more women have taken to the stock markets, which has traditionally been a male bastion. Many brokerage firms have been reporting a substantial rise in demat accounts opened by women in …
The world witnessed a financial revolution in the last decade. The changes had a deep impact on the nature of money and the way it flowed from one person to another. The world was introduced to Bitcoin, a type of cryptocurrency, in 2009. Bitcoin and the other virtual currencies that followed Bitcoin found many takers …
Recently, India’s forex reserves touched an all-time high of $394 billion. In fact, India is already the 8th largest economy in the world in terms of forex reserves and is expected to cross the$400 billion mark by the first week of September. India’s rising forex reserves also represents the shifting oil dividends due to sustained weakness …
According to the reports, the Reserve Bank of India might be taking the reinstatement of the working hours of debt and currency markets into consideration. The operational hours that were cut down due to Covid-19 lockdowns and other restrictions might be reverted back to their pre-pandemic schedule. The timings for debt and currency markets were …
India’s rupee has been the only Asian currency to gain in March, growing 1.3 per cent on the back of foreign buying of domestic stocks worth $2.4 billion. This includes inflows into initial public offerings (IPOs). Data shows that nine offers of share sales amounting to Rs 59 billion this month has bulked up the …
The BSE has noted that it has the preparedness in terms of technology to bring in electronic gold receipts (EGR). The introduction of electronic gold receipts is expected to create a standardised pricing structure of the precious metal. The BSE will reportedly seek the approvals required for the introduction of the EGR from capital markets regulator SEBI, ahead …
The benchmark indices, Sensex and Nifty, have been experiencing choppiness in the recent past. Even though the markets opened on November 25, Thursday, on a weaker note, the BSE Sensex managed to close 0.78 per cent points higher at a little over 58,795 points while the Nifty50 closed at a little over 17,546.10 points, up over …
