Monday, January 10, 2011

SEBI Master Circulars and new SEBI website

SEBI has recently issued the following master circulars:

1. Master Circular on Matters Related to Exchange Traded Derivatives (available here) issued with a sunset clause of one year
2. Master Circular on Administration of Stock Exchanges, Arbitration in recognised Stock Exchanges and Stock Exchanges / trading platform for Small & Medium Enterprises including guidelines for Market Makers (available here)
3. Master Circular for Depositaries (available here)
4. Master Circular for Stock Exchanges and Depositaries (available here)
5. Master Circular for Stock Exchanges- Cash Market (available here)
6. Master Circular on Anti-Money Laundering (available here)
7. Master Circular for Mutual Funds.(available here)

It was in December 2008 that SEBI started issuing master circulars, following the footsteps of the RBI (which has various master circulars on FEMA, NBFCs, etc.). The first master circular issued by SEBI was the consolidated Master Circular on Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Combating Financing of Terrorism (CFT) on December 18, 2010 (covered in this blog here). This was followed by a Master Circular on Mutual Funds (covered in this blog here) which was issued on January 1, 2010.

On a separate note, SEBI has come up with a new website (currently in Beta), which depicts trend graphs and live feeds of SEBI/SAT orders. This new SEBI website can be accessed here.

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