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SEBI Function Update 23, Empowering Investors, Enhancing Transparency, and Fueling Market Growth large corporates to provide them with more flexibility on borrowing from the debt market.

SEBI decided to provide framework for large corporations through the issuance of debt securities and also extended the timeline for investment advisers qualification and experience requirements. Long term borrowing of at least rs.100 crore and a target to finance themselves with long term. To extend the timeline by two years till September 2025 experience requirements for investment for investment advisers. SEBI has powers to regulate any pooling of funds for investments aggregating Rs 100 crore or more by an individual or a company.   The Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has brought new norms for large corporates to provide them with more flexibility on borrowing from the debt market.

What is  LARGE CORPORATES

At present, large corporates refer to companies that have an outstanding loan of Rs 100 crore or above, with a credit rating of ‘AA’, and have their debt securities listed on a stock exchange.

 SEBI has increased the monetary threshold for defining large corporates to Rs. 500 crores from the current level of Rs. 100 crores. This means that fewer companies will now be classified as large corporates and be subject to the borrowing norms.

 SEBI has removed the penalty of 0.2% on large corporates that do not meet the mandate of raising at least 25% of their incremental borrowings from the debt market.  SEBI will now introduce a system based on “incentives and moderated disincentives”.  The requirement for large corporates to file a statement identifying themselves as a large corporate has been dispensed with.

What is SEBI full from

SEBI – SECURITIES EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA

Establishment – statutory body in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992,

After [30 January 1992]   30 January 2023  SEBI 35th foundation day , new logo.

 Headquarters:  Mumbai and four regional offices in New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, and Ahmedabad

Before SEBI came into existence, Controller of Capital Issues was the regulatory authority. it derived authority from the Capital Issues (Control) Act, 1947.

 In 1988  SEBI was constituted as the regulator of capital markets in India.  SEBI was a non-statutory body without any statutory power.  SEBI Act passed by Parliament in 1992, it was given autonomous and statutory powers.  SEBI Board consists of a Chairman and several other whole time and part time members. SEBI also appoints various committees, whenever required to look into the pressing issues of that time

What is work of SEBI

It is the regulatory authority for primary market, secondary market, mutual funds and foreign institutional investment in India.

 To protect the interests of investors in securities and to promote the development of, and regulate the securities market. SEBI Punishments are often being imposed without the basic process of an investigation and a hearing. The punishment of stopping financial markets activity imposes high costs upon different firms, and has been a choice as it helps SEBI staff avoid the work of quantifying the harm caused.

How many member SEBI

  9  member board, which is headed by a chairman. The chairman and other members of the board are appointed by the Central Government of India.

  It is a quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial body that can draft regulations, conduct inquiries, pass rulings, and impose penalties. Protecting the interests of Indian investors in the securities market and promote its development.

SEBI also regulates the tasks entrusted to depositors, credit rating agencies, custodians of securities, foreign portfolio investors, and other participants.  It educates investors about securities markets and their intermediaries.

  It prohibits fraudulent and unfair trade practices within the securities market and related to it.

  Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) is the appellate tribunal for orders passed by the SEBI.  SAT is also a statutory body established under the provisions of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 19.

Power of SEBI function happy update 23

 It is the regulator of the securities and commodity market in India owned by the Government of India.

To protect the interests of Indian investors in the securities market. To promote the development and hassle-free functioning of the securities market. To regulate the business operations of the securities.

Chairman SEBI has powers to authorize the carrying out of search and seizure operations. SEBI also aims to check fraudulence by its statutory regulations and self-regulating business. It also enables a competitive professional market for intermediaries. SEBI provides a marketplace in which the issuers can increase finance properly.  It also ensures safety and supply of precise and accurate information from the investors.

SEBI analyses the trading of stocks and saves the security market from the malpractices. It controls the stockbrokers and sub- stockbrokers.  SEBI’s statutory enforcement powers are greater than its counterparts in the US and the UK as it is armed with far greater power to inflict serious economic injury.

It provides education regarding the market to the investors to enhance their knowledge. Regulation, either rules or enforcement, is far from perfect, particularly in areas like insider trading.

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