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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Homeless? Congrats

If you haven't bought a house of your own yet, or feel priced out of the market now, there may be some good news in store. Home loan rates are set to rise again, while realty prices head for a bigger-than-expected fall. The result: paying rent just got smarter.

That's one way of looking at the brighter side of Reserve Bank of India's credit policy on Tuesday, which, otherwise, painted a gloomier picture of the economy and brought such measures that would make the slowdown worse than now.

The central bank raised the rate at which it lends to commercial banks in the short term, and ordered them to hold more cash in reserves, in a bid to contain inflation that has reached a worrisome 12 per cent and threatens to detail the India growth story .

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Monday, January 28, 2008

Regulator to plug market loopholes

After the Reliance Power experience, SEBI wants to change the way initial public offers are made

INVESTORS PUTTING their money into initial public offers (IPOs) of shares may soon get a respite from committing funds with no guarantee of quick allotment or refund. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) plans to drastically cut the allotment time to less than five days from the current 21 days. Also, the entire thing will be done online to ensure speedy clearance of applications. The current proposals, being formulated by a SEBI panel, assume significance after the Reliance Power issue, which raised questions as to whether bankers and promoters had time to play with applicants' cash. Top SEBI sources said the regulator believes that physical application forms must be done away with and replaced with online applications. "Since demit accounts have all the relevant information, and bank accounts are online, it is possible to make fresh applications by putting in the demit account number and online payment instruction," a member of the primary market committee told Hindustan Times. "What is the need of putting so much of repetitive information and creating complicated application forms?" he said. The committee is due to meet again in early February and take a final decision on recommendations to be put up to the SEBI board. However, the proposals may not become rules soon enough to affect a spate of forthcoming IPOs. Some 35 companies plan to enter the market by March to mop up around Rs 20,000 crore. The new norms are expected to take effect in March or April, sources in the committee said. Physical applications, particularly in mega issues, involve a logistical nightmare. The forms also require all sorts of details. The new proposals aim at making...

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Article taken from the issue: 28 Jan 2008

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