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SEBI’s Proposed Price Discovery Framework: Balancing Market Protection

[Avinash Kotval and Aviral Bhardwaj are final and penultimate year BBA LL.B. (Hons.) students, respectively, at Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat] On April 19, 2024, the Securities and Exchanges Board of India (‘SEBI’) released a consultation paper on ‘Framework for Price Discovery of Shares of listed Investment Companies & listed Investment Holding Companies’. This consultation paper intends...

Revolutionizing Trade Settlement: SEBI’s Progressive Push for T+0 and Instant Settlement

[Smruti Kulkarni and Manas Rohilla are 3rd year students at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar] On 22 December 2023, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) issued a consultation paper on “Introduction of optional T+0 and optional Instant Settlement of Trades in addition to T+1 Settlement Cycle in Indian Securities Markets”. The paper analyses feasibility and desirability of...

Navigating Vulnerabilities: SEBI’s Circular on Trading Account Security

[Snigdha Dash is a 3rd year B.A.LL.B.(Hons.) student from National Law University, Odisha] The market’s abundance of traders, providers, platforms, brokers, and communication channels has created an environment susceptible to potentially malevolent activities. Exploiting vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access to trading accounts and execute illicit transactions, such as in currency trading...

Should India Allow Fractional Share Investing?

[Ajith Kidambi is a V year student at the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad] Fractional share investing could finally be a reality in the Indian stock market. The Company Law Committee, which the Ministry of Corporate Affairs constituted in 2019, had released its third report in April 2022, making several recommendations to the government to improve the ease of doing business in India and...

Non-Fungible Tokens: An Indian Perspective

[Aiyushi Mehrotra is a 4th  Year B.A., LLB. student at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar] Non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) are digital blockchain tokens that identify ownership or particulars of unique items, whether they be digital or real in form. They are traded and programmed in the same way as cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum, but that is where the similarities...

Is NSE’s Co-Location Facility Abusive: A Competition Law Analysis

[Rishabh Joshi is a 5th year B.B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at Gujarat National Law University, Gujarat] Recently in its decision of Manoj K. Sheth v. NSE, (Case No. 35 of 2019) dated 28 June 2021, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) rejected the charges surrounding abuse of dominance against the National Stock Exchange (NSE) concerning the co-location facility. The informant had filed a...

Going for Gold: SEBI Proposes Gold Trading on Exchanges

[Arunimaa Jaiswal is a fourth-year student at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar] Through the Union Budget 2021-22, the Government of India notified the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) as the regulator for gold exchanges in India. Upon such notification and in pursuance of the Government’s intention of establishing regulated gold exchanges in the country, SEBI released a...

Social Stock Exchange in India: Scrutinizing the Vision

[Prachi Agrawal is a 4th year B.B.A., LL.B. (Business Law Hons.) student and Stuti Bhargava a 4th year B.A., LL.B (Business Law Hons.) student, both at the National Law University, Jodhpur] “It is time to take our capital markets closer to the masses and meet various social welfare objectives related to inclusive growth and financial inclusion.”– Nirmala Sitharaman In her budget speech in...

SEBI Working Group Report on Social Stock Exchange

[Rongeet Poddar is a 5th year student at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences] The Working Group Report on Social Stock Exchange constituted by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has evaluated the prospect of introducing a ‘Social Stock Exchange’ (SSE). As acknowledged in the Report published on 1 June 2020, the Finance Minister of India had previously called...

SEBI’s Karvy Order: Tightening the Screws on Stock Brokers

Late on Friday, 22 November 2019, the Securities and Exchange Board of India passed an order in the case involving Karvy Stock Broking Limited (KSBL). The circumstances surrounding the order are atypical. The urgency of the situation is evident in the fact that the SEBI order, passed very late on 22 November, relies upon a “preliminary” report that it received from the National Stock Exchange of...

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