“We have all the time believed that bonds and perhaps not shares are the appropriate stepping stone for many Indians — higher than FD returns, however decrease danger than shares,” Kamath stated in a tweet.
In October, the capital market regulator sharply lowered the face worth of debt securities, together with non-convertible debentures, issued on a personal placement foundation to Rs 1,00,000 from Rs 10,00,000, following representations from varied market contributors.
A discount within the face worth and the buying and selling lot won’t solely make approach for extra traders to take part however will even improve the liquidity within the company bond market.
Historically bonds have been an instrument for high-net-worth people, however these measures will now see even the retail group getting into the market.
Additional, SEBI allowed registered inventory brokers to position bids on the request for quote (RFQ) debt buying and selling platform on behalf of their shoppers to facilitate wider participation within the company bond market.
RFQ is an digital platform to allow refined, multilateral negotiations to happen on a centralised on-line buying and selling platform, and solely mutual funds and portfolio administration companies had been beforehand allowed to do a part of the trades by way of this platform.One of many different main steps that SEBI took to ease buying and selling in bonds for retail traders was the relief of the cost methodology.
Earlier, all bond offers had been to be settled by way of the clearing firms, who solely accepted real-time gross settlement (RTGS) because the cost mode. So, the minimal transaction measurement grew to become over Rs 2 lakh by default.
Nonetheless, Sebi on Tuesday allowed alternate cost modes other than RTGS to execute trades on the RFQ platform.
Subsequently, bond trades lesser than Rs 1 lakh worth may also be settled by way of clearing firms, Kamath defined.
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