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Capital markets regulator Sebi on Monday said that mutual funds will value Additional Tier 1 or AT-1 bonds based on yield to call (YTC) basis. Yield to call is the expected return an investor gets if they buy a bond and hold it until the issuer repurchases it on the call date, before maturity. This came after the National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) recommended that AT-1 bonds should be valued based on yield to call to align with market practices and Ind AS 113 principles. This recommendation applies only to the valuation of AT-1 bonds under Ind AS 113, not to other purposes. "In order to align the valuation methodology with the recommendation of NFRA, it has been decided that the valuation of AT-1 bonds by mutual funds shall be based on Yield to Call," Sebi said in a circular. However, for all other purposes, the deemed maturity of perpetual bonds will still follow the guidelines in the Master Circular. AT1 bonds are issued by banks with no maturity date, but they includ
Sebi on Tuesday sent a notice to Yes Bank's former MD and CEO Rana Kapoor asking him to pay Rs 2.22 crore in a case of misselling the lender's AT-1 bonds and warned of arrest if he fails to make the payment within 15 days. The regulator also warned that his assets and bank accounts would be attached in case the payment is not made within the stipulated time. The case relates to misselling of the bank's AT-1 (Additional Tier-1) bonds to retail investors by the bank's officials. It was alleged that the bank and certain officials did not inform investors about the risk involved while selling the AT-1 bonds in the secondary market. The sale of AT-1 bonds started in 2016 and continued till 2019. The demand notice came after Kapoor failed to pay the fine imposed on him by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) in September 2022. In a notice issued on Tuesday, Sebi directed Kapoor to pay Rs 2.22 crore, which includes interest and recovery cost, within 15 days. In the event