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Depository Receipts - concepts and evolution of Framework
Delve deeper into the 2019 DR Framework to understand the concept and the evolution of regulatory attempts.

Manal Shah
Oct 13, 20199 min read


SEBI Foreign Portfolio Investor Norms 2019 - Highlights
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Foreign Portfolio Investors) Regulations 2019 have replaced the Securities and Exchange Board...

Manal Shah
Sep 30, 20194 min read


Detailed requirements for startups to migrate from Innovators Growth Platform
SEBI incorporated a framework for Innovators Growth platform (“IGP”) with a vision to facilitate listing of start-ups in India. This was...

Manal Shah
Sep 29, 20193 min read


Security Token Offering: Compelling Regulatory Opportunity for India Part 3/3
INDIA – What India can learn? RBI vide Press Release on December 24, 2013, cautioned users of Virtual Currencies against risks.[1]This...

Manal Shah
Aug 1, 20195 min read


Security Token Offering: Compelling Regulatory Opportunity for India Part 2/3
FINMA –Uncertificated Securities The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA issued ICO Guidelines on February 16, 2018 to...

Manal Shah
Jul 31, 20192 min read


Security Token Offering: Compelling Regulatory Opportunity for India Part 1/3
In three parts, this Blog Series endeavours to expound on the legal principles which lay the foundation for the potential regulation of...

Manal Shah
Jul 31, 20193 min read


Deepening Digital Payments, Interchange fee waiver, Online Dispute Resolution, DFI Index
Digital payments in India going through a significant change, growing a factor of 10 in the last 5 years. In addition to the volume,...

Manal Shah
Jul 21, 20199 min read


Social Stock Exchanges
The Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the Union Budget 2019-20 heralded the proposed...

Manal Shah
Jul 7, 20193 min read


Tech Cos with superior voting rights now enabled to conduct IPO
In a welcome move, SEBI vide PR No. 16/2019 released its decision with regard to ‘Framework for Issuance of Differential Voting Rights...

Manal Shah
Jul 3, 20192 min read


What happened to World's once largest Crypto-exchange - The Mt. Gox Story
Jed McCaleb, a US Programmer and aficionado of the card game ‘Magic: The Gathering’ built a website for trading cards online in 2007. Mt....

Manal Shah
Jun 14, 20192 min read


Securities Transaction Tax - Stays put with tweak for options
The Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget speech declared the proposal ‘to give relief in...

Manal Shah
Jun 14, 20193 min read


Enabling framework for fintech sandbox
Regulatory Sandbox refers to live testing of new financial products or services in an environment wherein certain regulatory requirements...

Manal Shah
May 28, 20193 min read


Public Credit Registry
India’s Central Bank, the Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”) is presently working on a major revamp to the country’s credit information...

Manal Shah
May 21, 20195 min read


Peer to Peer Lending
Alternate lenders including P2P lenders, marketplace platforms, digital lending platforms are targeting specific credit needs of retail...

Manal Shah
May 14, 20195 min read


Effective exclusion of fugitive economic offenders from the Securities Markets
Economic Offence in India An Economic Offender (“EO”) forms a distinct class of crimes among criminal offences. Economic Offences not...

Manal Shah
Apr 28, 20195 min read


A Sandbox for Indian Fintechs
In his keynote address at the NITI Aayog FinTech Conclave 2019 held on 25 March 2019, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI),...

Manal Shah
Apr 2, 20196 min read


Evolution of India's Digital payment ecosystem - NEFT, IMPS, RTGS, AEPS, ABPS, Cards
Various systems are currently in place to meet remittance requirements. The National Electronic Funds Transfer (“NEFT”) began its journey...

Manal Shah
Mar 10, 20192 min read


Digital Payments get nudge: Interchange fee waiver, online dispute resolution, etc
Digital payments in India going through a significant change, growing a factor of 10 in the last 5 years. In addition to the volume, the...

Manal Shah
Mar 8, 20199 min read


Evolution of Digital Payments in India - Paper based payments
Presently India boasts of a robust and advanced payment system ecosystem with the National Electronic Funds Transfer (“NEFT”), Immediate...

Manal Shah
Mar 4, 20194 min read


Recapitalization of PCA Banks
[ Reference to https://indiacorplaw.in/2018/11/prompt-corrective-action.html ] India’s Central Bank, the Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”)...

Manal Shah
Mar 4, 20192 min read
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