Gireesh BabuSecurities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has imposed a penalty of Rs 1 lakh on 63 Moons Technologies Ltd, formerly known as Financial Technologies (India) Ltd, for failing to comply with the regulatory requirement to get prior approval from the exchanges before fresh name change, under the Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements (LODR) regulations.The allegation was that the company, while changing its name from Financial Technologies to 63 Moons Technologies, was first required to seek prior approval from the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and National Stock Exchange (NSE) for the same, but instead first obtained the fresh certificate of incorporation and then informed the exchanges.The company argued that the name change was in public domain much before the applicability of the said regulation and it was convered in its Annual Report for 2014-15. In April and May, 2016, it has also notified about the name change.The market regulator observed that the company ...
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