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Transfer of physical shares not possible from 5 December, only demat form allowed; all you need to know
Fp Staff •Post-Tuesday, you won’t be able to transfer shares of listed companies if they are held in physical form.
Sovereign gold bond scheme opens from 15 October; to run up to 5 tranches till February: RBI
•Sovereign Gold Bonds will be issued every month from October 2018 to February 2019 as per the calendar specified,
New norms for unlisted public companies shares: Insisting for demat form is a big jolt for benami crooks, but implementation is key
Jayant Thakur •The core objective seems to be to detect and control benami shareholding and thus generally bring shareholding subject to regulatory requirements of tax, money laundering, anti-corruption, etc.
Investors can hold shares in physical form even after 5 December, clarifies SEBI
•The stock market regulator, SEBI, in July, had said that transfer of shares of listed companies has to essentially be in dematerialised mode from 5 December.
Electoral bonds: Why Narendra Modi govt should go beyond cosmetic reforms and switch to demat mode
Muralidharan •If public scrutiny was the only problem for honest corporates, he could have amended the Companies Act to say that names of political parties could be disclosed at the discretion of the donor-company.
Chanakya's way: 3 soft tricks Arun Jaitley may play to tax capital gains
Narayanan Madhavan •India's overall taxpayer base in a nation of 125 crore (1.25 billion) people is only 48 million, or 4.8 crore -- or 3.8 percent of the population.
Dhanteras: Why gold alternatives offer better option than buying physical yellow metal
Bindisha •From a purely investment point of view several gold schemes offer better alternative than buying gold
With Demat account in tow, Tirupati's Balaji is now the God of Dalal Street too
Fp Staff •India's richest shrine Tirumala (Tirupati) Balaji temple has opened a Demat account for donations from devotees in the form of shares and securities.
Sebi does away with stamp duty for demat a/c agreements
Fp Archives •The market regulator had recently replaced the agreements which are entered between a depository participant and demat account holder with a simpler and a common document titled 'Rights and Obligations'.
Chidu to launch RGRESS equity savings scheme on 9 Feb
Fp Archives •Aiming to attract first-time stock market investors, Finance Minister P Chidambaram will launch the much-awaited Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS) in Mumbai on 9 February.