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SEBI proposes major changes in SME IPO rules
SEBI's plan halves the minimum SME IPO bid to ₹1 lakh, drops market making and widens who must list as an SME. Its one tougher rule would have stopped 7 of 122 IPOs in 2026.
16 October 2026Read more →Jio Platforms' IPO price is 2.3x what Meta and Google paid
Jio Platforms' top IPO price of ₹1,119 is 2.3x what Meta and Google paid in 2020. All the money goes to the company, and 91% of it prepays loans.
16 October 2026Read more →Zetwerk's IPO is cheaper than its last private rounds
Zetwerk's IPO price of ₹151 is about 13% below its latest private rounds, yet early investors still make up to 38x, and most of the new money repays loans.
14 October 2026Read more →SoftBank's AceVector bet lost 92% of its value on IPO
AceVector's IPO paid every seller ₹32 a share. SoftBank's Starfish had paid ₹382.40, so it got back just 8%; an early investor got 5.4 times his cost.
9 October 2026Read more →How a market maker ended up with 89% of S.K. Offset's IPO
SMC's subsidiary was S.K. Offset's biggest anchor investor, SMC was its market maker, and SMC bought 97% of the shares traded on listing day.
6 October 2026Read more →RBI fines Hero FinCorp 6 days before IPO approval lapses
The RBI fined Hero FinCorp ₹10 lakh for charging some borrowers too much interest. The fine is small. The deadline for its IPO, 30 September, is the bigger problem.
25 September 2026Read more →Dissecting ₹1.13 lakh crore of IPO money
228 IPOs came to market in India this year and raised ₹112,941 crore. More than half of it never reached a company.
23 September 2026Read more →India's IPO year so far: 228 listings, ₹1.13 lakh crore
228 IPOs raised ₹1,12,941 crore between 1 January and 21 September 2026. 78% of the money came in the last 3 months, and finance alone took a third of it.
23 September 2026Read more →Kamarajar Port’s IPO helps repay the loan that bought it
Kamarajar Port's ₹1,200 crore IPO is a pure sale by Chennai Port, which borrowed 74.5% of the price when it bought the port from the Centre in 2020.
15 September 2026Read more →Four questions to ask of ARCIL after its 20x IPO
ARCIL's IPO was subscribed 20.1x but raised nothing for the company. Recovery, book age, cash profit and its own stake are what to check.
14 September 2026Read more →Infra.Market uses Shalimar Paints, 36 times smaller, to list
Infra.Market is skipping its ₹5,000 crore IPO and reaching the market through Shalimar Paints, a listed company about 36 times smaller than itself.
13 September 2026Read more →