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SEBI changes expiry-day settlement under its closing auction
From 7 December, options and futures expiring that day settle on the last 30 minutes of normal trading again, not the auction price. The auction stays, from 3:30 to 3:40 pm.
17 October 2026Read more →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 →Bhavish Aggarwal pledges Ola shares to fund his rights issue
Bhavish Aggarwal pledged 16.3% of his Ola Electric shares to borrow his ₹265 crore share of Ola's rights issue, 9 months after he cleared his last pledge.
14 October 2026Read more →False YouTube tips sent Sadhna Broadcast up 19x, then down
False YouTube tips sent Sadhna Broadcast up 19x in 2022 while people linked to its promoters sold. SEBI is still collecting from 5 of them.
9 October 2026Read more →SEBI could not prove the Adani public shareholding charge
SEBI found no proof that Vinod Adani controlled 2 foreign funds holding Adani shares. The companies had already settled for ₹1.48 crore, and 2 people were fined ₹20 lakh each.
30 September 2026Read more →Growpital's fake jeera crop helped hide a ₹193 crore fraud
SEBI found Growpital raised ₹192.88 crore from 5,208 investors through unlicensed farming LLPs, fabricating revenues including ₹61.68 crore from a jeera plot worth at most ₹30 lakh, while 2 conduits settled for ₹40.56 lakh each.
30 September 2026Read more →The curious case of funding "cases"
Five Rivers is raising a $25-50 million fund to finance lawsuits, the first SEBI-registered fund set up for this. The returns sound too good to be true, and India's slow courts are why they exist.
19 September 2026Read more →SEBI flags ₹541.3 crore of Kore Digital revenue as misstated
SEBI's interim order says ₹541.3 crore of Kore Digital's FY25 and FY26 revenue was prima facie misstated, mostly through three recently incorporated subsidiaries.
18 September 2026Read more →Tokenised bonds raise ₹1,025 crore, settled in digital rupee
Three issuers raised ₹1,025 crore in tokenised corporate bonds settled against RBI's digital rupee, a tiny sum that hints at faster settlement and wider access.
13 September 2026Read more →