Archive · 8 Dec 2025
SEBI to Discuss 11 Proposals on December 17
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) will meet on December 17, 2025, to discuss 11 important changes.
These include updating rules for brokers and mutual funds, making it easier for people to invest in public debt, and introducing a new system for setting the closing price of stocks.
They also want to simplify the process for companies to go public and make sure that exchanges and clearing corporations follow the same rules.
Additionally, they are looking at ways to protect investors better and make sure that everyone follows the rules fairly.
Some of these changes have been discussed for a long time, and SEBI is now ready to make decisions on them.
SEBI will consider 11 regulatory proposals on December 17, 2025, covering major overhauls of broker regulations, mutual fund expense structure, and exchange administration.
The introduction of a closing-auction session is expected to reduce volatility in the final minutes of trade and provide a more accurate benchmark for settlements, index calculations, and fund NAVs.
Rules governing exchanges and clearing corporations will be streamlined to eliminate redundant filings, standardise circulars, and simplify procedural approvals.
Broker and mutual fund regulations, dating back to the 1990s, will be updated to ease compliance and plug gaps relating to algorithmic trading, online broking models, and fee structures.
Amendments to IPO norms will simplify IPO processes and rationalise lock-in norms, with additional recommendations on conflict of interest, including public disclosure of assets and liabilities, stricter gift policies, and a two-year cooling-off period for post-retirement roles.
- Who
- Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
- What
- Consideration of 11 regulatory proposals
- When
- December 17, 2025
- Where
- India
- Why
- To overhaul broker regulations, mutual fund expense structure, exchange administration, and introduce a closing-auction session, among other regulatory updates
- Date
- December 17, 2025
- Number of Proposals
- 11
- Key Topics
- Broker regulations, mutual fund expense structure, exchange administration, closing-auction session, IPO norms, debt-market issuers, KYC requirements for NRIs, mutual-fund folio onboarding, retail participation in public debt issues, alternative-investment funds
- Closing-Auction Mechanism
- Aimed at reducing volatility in the final minutes of trade, providing a more accurate benchmark for settlements, index calculations, and fund NAVs
- Exchange Administration
- Streamlining rules, eliminating redundant filings, standardising circulars, simplifying procedural approvals, merging investor protection funds, introducing a uniform three-year lookback period for claims in broker-default cases
- Broker and Mutual Fund Regulations
- Updating definitions, easing compliance, plugging gaps relating to algorithmic trading, online broking models, and fee structures, refining the total-expense-ratio framework, and capping brokerage fees
- IPO Norms
- Simplifying IPO processes and rationalising lock-in norms, public disclosure of assets and liabilities, stricter gift policies, anonymous whistleblower system, two-year cooling-off period for post-retirement roles