The NSE Order is a crazy read. The juiciest bits have been discussed of course, but it's amazing how the largest stock exchange has been run. Disclosure: I own BSE, and I think SEBI should quickly level this field (the way they did when BSE was a near monopoly)
Chitra Ramakrishna was CEO between 2013 and 2016. A strange "yogi" was there. She shared confidential details of the NSE with this person:
The problem isn't the sharing, apparently. It involves another strange person: Anand Subramanian, a consultant at a Balmer Lawrie subsidiary, who was hired to become big ass consultant at NSE, with his salary going from 1cr+ to 4 cr+ per year between 2013 and 2016.
Such salary increases are now being copied by startups in Bangalore while hiring any developer who can spell Javascript in the first or second attempt. But we digress.
This notice to Chitra is just one part of what seems to be a real corp governance issue.
I'm honestly not too concerned about the salary given. I would be happy to pay a lot more than market for the right person, regardless of qualifications. And NSE's profits are its shareholders' (and board's) problem.
The issue is they said AS is not a key managerial person.
He was group COO and not key? Not an employee? This is super strange, indeed. And then "rigyajursam@outlook.com" = unknown yogi = who gets paid a part of what Anand Subramanian is paid. (Rigyajursam = names of the three main vedas and appears to be a front)
Interestingly, the yogi gets to know from Chitra that she's making Anand some bigshot also: (Chitra is noticee no. 1)
Yogi is like Bro, I wanna piece of this madness. Increase his salary and gimme a part of it bwahahaha.
This yogi is good, and apparently has had favours pending since yesteryears and all that. Here's the promotion sub-list: (Feb 2015 is one super busy time I swear)
Overall, while there is information of enjoying the Seychelles sea and all that kind of stuff, it's hardly relevant beyond saying that Yogi fellow is hardly a yogi.
If there is to be any substance to the findings, SEBI must dig much deeper. Otherwise it's just a soap opera.
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Means RBI will sell $5bn USD on March 10, 2022. It will also buyback $5bn USD on March 11, 2024, two years later.
Banks can say ok I want $100 USD and I will expect RBI to pay me back say Rs. 2.5 more after two years. That's the "auction" where banks will bid for the premium.
If I'm a bank I can borrow 100 USD at say Rs. 75 so I have to pay back 100 USD in two years, so how much rupees should I get? Effectively, I will quote the two year interest on the rupee - roughly 4.5% a year +/-some view on how the rupee will depreciate in the meantime.
A thread 🧵on how much retail investors (individuals) dominate daily investing in the markets in India, from the NSE Pulse: static.nseindia.com//s3fs-public/i…
They're 41% of the stock market transactions - down from 45% in 2020-21. Still, massive.
Individuals are 29% of index futures - a big drop from 39% in FY 21 and give way to brokers (PRO).
They give way to FIIs and PRO in the stock futures segment, down to just 19% in FY22 (which is April 2021 to March 2022)
Crypto tax: All sales taxed at 30%. No deductions of brokerage etc. allowed. No set-off against any other losses allowed (Is this reading right: you can't even set off losses in other crypto transactions)
1% TDS by the seller on the transaction:
Wording might be
a) crypto against crypto is allowed due to phrase "aggregate of the income"
b) Brokerage could be allowed as cost of acquisition
Budget 2022: The Big Thread on all things that will be super important today! #Budget2022
Note: no investment advice. Large attempts at humour, not always successful. You've been warned.
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We start with markets, of course. Here's something to keep you occupied for the next 5 seconds: How markets reacted before, during and after budgets, since 2001:
India's tax rates across the years (I've only looked at personal tax rates)
RBI did a "switch" today, converting nearly Rs. 120,000 cr. of government securities from short term to long. What does this mean?
RBI holds a lot of government bonds. Roughly 11 lakh crores. It should - all central banks tend to own bonds of their own country's government. (RBI owns 42 lakh crores of foreign government bonds, as part of forex reserves)
When the bonds come closer to maturity, RBI will effectively get money from the government and it might then have to use that money to buy more government bonds (to retain the allocation). Instead they just switch the bonds.
The curious case of the sudden rise in short term interest rates (and liquid funds losing money) yesterday: a thread🧵
This thread may have more questions than answers, but here goes:
Hajaar excess liquidity, so RBI is sucking out money using VRRR (the sound that liquidity makes when it goes back to RBI temporarily)
A VRRR is a Variable Rate Reverse Repo => RBI says you have excess money? Gimme, and bid your rates up to max 3.99% and I will pay.
They do this regularly - 14-day VRRRs, 7 day VRRRs etc. On Tuesday 18th there was a 7 day 200,000 cr. VRRR and banks bid to give at 3.99%