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Sebi to streamline market rules and speed up AIF scheme launches
The regulator plans a single-window clearance system for intermediaries across market infrastructure institutions and will launch the Sebi Setu portal to simplify its interface.
India's markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India plans to simplify regulations, ease compliance, deepen capital markets and expand technology use in supervision in fiscal year 2026 to 2027, according to its annual report for FY26, as chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey outlined priorities.
Sebi said it will remove regulatory redundancies, simplify procedural requirements and introduce a fast-track mechanism for launching alternative investment fund schemes. It also plans to set up a single-window clearance system for intermediaries that operate across multiple market infrastructure institutions.
The regulator plans several market-structure and infrastructure changes, including launching the Sebi Setu portal to streamline its interface with market intermediaries and revamping the Securities Lending and Borrowing Scheme to improve price discovery and strengthen the connection between cash and derivatives markets.
Sebi also said it will continue efforts to develop agricultural and non-agricultural commodity markets and begin a pilot to tokenize corporate bonds using distributed ledger technology, while keeping investor education as a key priority through Project Jagrook. Reuters reported that Sebi will also expand employee training and its regional office network to strengthen monitoring and gather market intelligence.