The Sebi board has decided to give an option to all market intermediaries and companies to make their regulatory payments in digital mode. The move would help in speedy and easy transactions, while reducing failures due to payment gateway issues.
Besides, the board has approved a proposal to levy certain new charges, including filing fee for draft scheme of arrangements and processing fee on application for relaxation in certain regulations.
It has been a long pending demand of broker and market participants.
"This will result in reduction of overall cost of transactions and will benefit the investors and promote the development of securities market," the regulator said.
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The regulator has been following the practice of calibrating the fees either upwards or downwards as per its requirements so as to keep a balance between the financial resources required to ensure regulatory efficiency while maintaining reasonableness to avoid any undue burden on any particular class of intermediaries.
under buyback regulations and impose a processing fee on an application for relaxation of strict enforcement of Sebi's ICDR (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) regulations. Currently, no fee is being charged for processing of such requests.
The board has revised upwards the fee charged under Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers (SAST) Regulations to Rs 5 lakhs from Rs 3 lakh.
Besides, the Board approved the proposal to amend various Regulations to enable the market participants to make payments to Sebi through digital mode as well. The move comes following the demonetisation of high-value currency by RBI in November.
However, certain receipts such as filing fees for IPOs, takeover fees, payment from mutual funds are still received through cheques and demand drafts. Further, option of online payment from market intermediaries is not available in the respective regulations.