Sebi blocks NCDEX and MSE’s entry into options market: report

India’s market regulator has stopped the country’s two newest exchanges from offering equity derivatives trading and asked them to first build up their stock trading operations, two regulatory sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.Late last year, the National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) and the Metropolitan Stock Exchange (MSE) separately sought approval from […]

Sebi member heading Jane Street probe leaves office after expiry of term

Ananth Narayan G, the Indian regulator who led the high-profile investigation into alleged market manipulation by US high-frequency trading firm Jane Street, stepped down on Thursday at the end of his three-year term. Narayan, the second-ranking official at the Securities and Exchange Board of India, headed the market regulation and the department dealing with foreign […]

SEBI chairman warns retail investors against speculative trade in derivatives

Sebi chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said on Monday that retail investors should prevent speculative trade in derivatives, which underlines the risks of these products. “Sebi studies have consistently demonstrated that retail investors who act in derivatives ultimately have to do with losses, often because they do not fully understand the risk in these products,” said […]

NSE lowers Nifty Derivatives Lot Size to 65, rewind contract sizes for other important indices of December 30

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has announced that the party size for Nifty 50 Futures and Options contracts will be reduced from 75 to 65 from December 30, 2025 (EOD). This revision is part of a broader update of the market parties for various important index derivatives, according to the Sebi guidelines for periodic assessment. […]

Regulators in the US start closing markets if the government’s closure lowers federal financing

American market bangers started the process of leave employees on Wednesday when the federal government was concluded after the congress had not extended the financing, limited important supervisory functions, impeded the initial public offers and some market and economic data limited. The closure, which started at midnight, will force the Securities and Exchange Commission to […]

Sebi, RBI in conversations with boost trade in derivatives of corporate bonds in the bond -bonds

Securities and Exchange Board of India and the Reserve Bank of India are in discussions about derivatives of the corporate bonds to strengthen commercial activity in business debt, said Sebi member Ananth Narayan G Friday. Narayan said in the Assocham National Council for Corporate Bonds: “Trade in the derivatives of the corporate bonds is a […]