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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
While a global backlash has triggered a rethink of environmental, social and governance regulations, India’s answer is a mandatory disclosure regime.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India is ready to put the cart before the horse when it comes to environmental, social and governance regulation.
In 2021, the market regulator asked the top 1,000 listed companies by market capitalization to file a Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report on a voluntary basis. Under this, firms were required to make disclosures on about 800 parameters related to environmental, social and governance, or ESG, factors. This included data on companies’ waste disposal practices, energy consumption, water usage, greenhouse gas emissions, workforce diversity and more. Reporting of such data was made mandatory for the …
Thinly traded listed entities have long served as breeding grounds for stock manipulation, hurting investors. The regulator, the NSE and BSE now want to fix things by focusing on efficient delisting.
The newly announced levy on UPI payments undermines the very foundation of using digital payments for stock market investing. Brokers are in a tizzy.
India’s second-largest brokerage by active clients wants to handle IPOs as a merchant banker. But gaining a foothold in the highly competitive sector is easier said than done.
