India's securities market regulator, overseeing stock exchanges, brokers, listings and investor protection, and setting market trading rules.
RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra said on Oct. 3 that India stays cautious on crypto, weeks after India's FIU sent AML notices to 15 platforms. Firms with Indian users should plan for tax and AML enforcement as the working regime while the RBI builds digital-rupee settlement for tokenized bonds.
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Morgan Stanley's Asia sponsors head mistakenly emailed clients an internal list of more than 100 deals the bank was working on or monitoring. The money at risk sits with sellers of block trades on that list, because their placements depend on buyers not expecting the shares.
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The National Stock Exchange of India closed 5.7 times covered, with institutions bidding 12.68 times their portion and retail investors 1.39 times. Every rupee of the Rs 22,569 crore goes to existing holders.
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India's largest exchange is selling 126.4 million shares, about 5.1% of itself, at Rs 1,700 to Rs 1,785, while unlisted platforms have been dealing the same stock between Rs 1,950 and Rs 2,200. The selling institutions keep the cash.
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SEBI and the Reserve Bank of India now have 10.25 billion rupees of corporate debt live on a permissioned ledger settled in wholesale digital rupees, with the depositories holding the private keys and 23 investors holding the bonds.
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Demat 2.0 settled REC, L&T and IIFL paper against the wholesale digital rupee on the day of bidding, with the same ISINs, coupons and ratings the bonds would have carried anyway.
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Two-factor authentication on automated orders and an audit trail of every automated decision took effect on April 1, 2026, and the broker carries the obligation.
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