Archive · 24 Nov 2025
Securities Markets Code Bill 2025 Introduced in Winter Session
The Indian government is introducing two important bills in the Winter session of Parliament starting December 1, 2025.
The first bill, called the Securities Markets Code Bill 2025, aims to combine the rules of different financial markets into one big rulebook.
This is to make it easier for businesses to work in these markets and to reduce the cost of following these rules.
It also wants to make the government's borrowing more trustworthy to foreign investors.
The second bill, the Insurance Amendment Bill, will introduce changes to allow individual agents to work with multiple insurance companies, known as open architecture.
However, the introduction of these bills has caused some insurance stocks, like those of LIC and SBI Life, to drop by up to 2% in value.
Securities Markets Code Bill 2025 and Insurance Amendment Bill listed for Winter session of Parliament
Bills aim to unify financial market regulations and introduce open architecture for insurance agents
First proposed in Union Budget 2021-22, the bills seek to consolidate multiple acts and boost ease of doing business
Unified code expected to reduce compliance costs and enhance credibility of government borrowings
Introduction of bills leads to a decline in insurance stocks, with companies like LIC and SBI Life experiencing up to 2% drops in share prices
- Who
- The Indian government
- What
- Introduced the Securities Markets Code Bill 2025 and the Insurance Amendment Bill
- When
- In the Winter session of Parliament starting December 1, 2025
- Where
- Parliament of India
- Why
- To boost ease of doing business, enhance credibility of government borrowings, and introduce open architecture for individual agents in the insurance sector
Government and Pro-Business Groups
Insurance Sector
Impact on Insurance Stocks
Government and Pro-Business Groups
The bill aims to streamline regulations and boost the ease of doing business, which is expected to have a positive long-term impact on the financial sector.
Insurance Sector
The introduction of the bill has led to a decline in insurance stocks, with companies like LIC and SBI Life experiencing up to 2% drops in share prices.
- Bill Name
- Securities Markets Code Bill 2025
- Session
- Winter session of Parliament
- Start Date
- December 1, 2025
- End Date
- December 19, 2025
- Purpose
- Unify key financial market regulations
- Expected Outcome
- Reduced compliance costs and enhanced credibility of government borrowings
- Impact on Insurance Stocks
- Decline of up to 2% in shares of companies like LIC and SBI Life
