NSE issues caution notice for investors

Exchange provides warning to the investors about a person named “Vishnu Darak” (Mob: – 9326799992) who is providing dabba/illegal trading platform with assured profit. He offers to handle investor’s trading A/C by asking their ID and password.

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) for issuers who have listed and/ or propose to list non-convertible securities, securitized debt instruments and security receipts.

Issuers having outstanding listed non-convertible securities as on August 31, 2023, shall report/ obtain and report the LEI code in the Centralized Database of corporate bonds, on or before September 1, 2023. Similarly, issuers having outstanding listed securitized debt instruments and security receipts as on August 31, 2023, shall report/ obtain and report the LEI code to the Depository(ies), on or before September 1, 2023.

Additional requirements for the issuers of transition bonds

An issuer shall disclose the denotation in the Centralized Database for corporate bonds/ debentures by filling the denotation. The Depositories shall update the denotation i.e. GB-Tas prefix in “instrument details” field in Centralized Database for corporate bonds/ debentures.

Testing Framework for the Information Technology (IT) systems of the Market Infrastructure Institutions (MIIs)

A comprehensive methodology for system testing, functional testing, application security testing should be established and the same shall be approved by Standing Committee on Technology (SCOT) of respective MIIs. The scope of testing shall, inter-alia, cover business logic, system function, security controls and system performance under load and stress conditions. Any dependency on the existing systems shall be properly tested.

SRI fund to encourage MSMEs in north east

The Government of India, launched SRI Fund with an outlay corpus of Rs 10,006 crore, concentrated towards financing an infusion of capital to MSMEs through Daughter Funds. The SRI fund which is being managed by NVCFL, is an Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) providing growth capital to MSMEs through equity/quasi-equity/equity-like structured instruments.  As on 31st March 2023, the fund has made a capital commitment of Rs. 5,120 crore to 42 empaneled daughter funds.

Revised custom exchange rates

The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs has determined the rate of exchange of conversion of each of the foreign currencies specified in column (2) of each of Schedule I and Schedule II , into Indian currency or vice versa, shall, with effect from 05th May, 2023