Mumbai, Mar 24 (PTI) Markets regulator Sebi’s board on Monday authorized a proposal to double the funding threshold for granular disclosures by overseas portfolio traders (FPIs) to ₹50,000 crore.
That is aimed toward addressing the altering market dynamics with out altering the focus standards, which stay unchanged.
At current, sure FPIs with fairness property beneath administration (AUM) exceeding ₹25,000 crore are required to offer granular particulars of all their traders or stakeholders on a look-through foundation.
“Money fairness markets’ buying and selling volumes have greater than doubled between FY 2022-23 and the present FY 2024-25. In mild of this, the board authorized a proposal to extend the relevant threshold from the current ₹25,000 crore to ₹50,000 crore,” Sebi Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey advised reporters right here.
“Thus, FPIs holding greater than ₹50,000 crore in fairness AUM within the Indian markets will now be required to make extra disclosures,” he added.
This was the primary board assembly beneath the newly-appointed chairman.
In August 2023, Sebi had directed FPIs, who have been holding over 50 per cent of their fairness AUM in a single company group or with an total holding in Indian fairness markets of greater than ₹25,000 crore, to reveal granular particulars of all entities holding any possession, financial curiosity, or exercising management within the FPI.
Sure FPIs, together with these having a broad-based, pooled construction with widespread investor base or these having possession curiosity by the federal government or government-related traders have been exempted from such extra disclosure necessities, topic to sure circumstances.
The scale standards have been specified with a view to guarding in opposition to the potential circumvention of Press Word 3 stipulations by FPIs with massive Indian fairness portfolios, with the potential to disrupt orderly functioning of Indian securities markets by their actions.