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In FY 2023-24, the Hon’ble Finance Minister announced the need to simplify, ease, and reduce the cost of compliance for participants in the financial sector through a consultative approach. The SEBI’s ongoing effort ensures alignment of the regulatory framework for non-convertible securities (NCS). Further, SEBI also provided for establishing diverse working groups to simplify and ease compliance under SEBI (LODR) Regulations.
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On August 16, 2024, the SEBI released a consultation paper comprising measures to streamline the business and its compliance requirements for non-convertible securities. This initiative is undertaken to align the regulatory framework for non-convertible securities with the regulation for equity-listed entities.
The SEBI’s proposal provides for aligning the provisions for approval & authentication of financial results, standardizing fraud &default disclosure requirements, reducing the timeline for recording date intimations, and mandating the use of XBRL format for filing & providing flexibility to ISIN restrictions for specific securities. Also, the SEBI’s proposal for compliance of non-convertible securities is open for review and comments till September 6, 2024.
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The primary objective of SEBI’s proposal for compliance of non-convertible securities (NCS) is to strengthen the regulatory framework established to govern these financial instruments. The following are some of the objectives of SEBI’s proposal for non-convertible securities:
The key features of the proposal for compliance of non-convertible securities, which recommends specific measures to promote ease of doing business (EoDB) for entities with listed non-convertible securities, are as provided below:
The LODR Regulations ensure parity and alignment of provisions regarding approval and authentication of financial results for equity—and debt-listed entities. For this purpose, the SEBI proposed a modification in Regulation 52 (2)(b) of the LODR Regulations mandating that quarterly financial results be approved by the board of directors.
Additionally, the chairperson, managing director, whole-time director, or any other director of the listed entity must mandatorily sign the financial results submitted to the stock exchange.
SEBI proposed aligning Clause A. 17 of Part B of Schedule III with Clause A .6 of Part of Schedule III of the LODR Regulations. Further, the provision entails the disclosure of events and information about fraud or default for equity and debt-listed entities.
Simply, the consultation ensures that the provision regarding disclosure fraud or default regarding price-sensitive information for entities having listed non-convertible securities aligns with that of equity/ debt-listed entities under Schedule III.
The Securities Exchange Board of India further proposed reducing the timeline for intimation of a record date to the stock exchange by an entity having listed non-convertible securities from at least 7 working days to at least 3 working days. These changes were made by the recommendations made by the working groups and deliberations held in the CoBoSAC meeting.
Next, the Securities Exchange Board of India further proposed a provision regarding filing all the disclosures made in the XBRL format for entities with non-convertible securities in debt/ equity-listed entities.
SEBI also proposed that the unlisted ISIN (outstanding as of December 31, 2023) converted into listed ISINs after the introduction of Regulation 62A is exempted or relaxed from the restriction limit of 14 ISINs specified in clause 1 of Chapter VIII of the NCS Master Circular.
The recommendations made by the working groups on ease of doing business and subsequent deliberations with the Corporate Bonds and Securitization Advisory Committee (CoBoSAC) list the following questions for public comments, as provided below:
The consultation paper released on August 16, 2024, raises the question of whether the proposal to align the provision regarding approval and authentication of financial results for entities having non-convertible securities with equity-listed entities is appropriate and adequate.
The question regarding the appropriate and adequate proposal for replacing clause A.17 of Part B of Schedule III along with clause A.6 of Part A of Schedule III of LODR regulations arose for extracting the public comments and suggestions.
The third question concerns whether the proposal to reduce the timeline for intimation of a record date to the stock exchange by entities having non-convertible securities from at least 7 to 3 working days is appropriate.
The next question arose about the adequacy of the proposal drafted for disclosure filing by a legal entity with non-convertible securities with the stock exchange to be made in the SBRL format in line with regulation 36 (4) of the LODR Regulations.
The next question concerns whether the proposal regarding the outstanding unlisted ISIN being converted into a listed ISIN after the introduction of Regulation 62A of the LODR regulations, which is to be exempted to compute the limit of 14 ISINs, is clause 1 of Chapter VIII of the NCS Master Direction appropriate or adequate.
The Securities Exchange Board of India’s proposed reforms for compliance with non-convertible securities are a significant step that ensures reporting requirements are comparable to those for equity-listed entities. The consultation paper is designed to simplify regulatory requirements, reduce the cost of compliance, and promote transparency to create an investor-friendly environment.
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According to Section 2 (1) (x) of the SEBI (Issue and Listing of Non-Convertible Securities) Regulations of 2021, non-convertible securities include debt securities, non-convertible redeemable preference shares, perpetual non-cumulative preference shares, perpetual instruments and any other securities as specified by the SEBI.
The companies must comply with the SEBI (Listing Obligation and Disclosure Requirements) Regulation 2015.
The penalty for any non-compliance with the provisions as specified in the SEBI (LODR) Regulations of 2015 is the freezing of the entire shareholding of the promoter or promoter’s group or a fine.
SEBI introduced new rules on August 16, 2024, ensuring compliance with non-convertible securities. These rules use a consultative approach to simplify, ease, and reduce the cost of compliance for participants in the financial sector.
The timeline (i.e., last date) for responding to comments for SEBI’s proposal to secure compliance with non-convertible securities is 06thof September 2024.
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