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4stories · Rule change
October 2026
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SEBI sets the ISIN cap for privately placed debt at seventeen maturing in a financial year, with extra ISINs above ₹15,000 crore: Circular HO/17/11/24(8)2026-DDHS-POD1/I/23125/2026
17 ISINs a financial yearRule changeSEBI has replaced paras 1.1 to 1.3 of the ISIN provisions of its NCS Master Circular to increase the maximum number of ISINs maturing in a financial year for debt securities issued on private placement basis. An issuer is now allowed seventeen ISINs maturing in any financial year: twelve for plain vanilla debt and five for structured, market linked, floating rate, zero coupon and Tier II instruments, plus six more for section 54EC capital gains bonds. The change took effect immediately on 7 October 2026.
August 2026
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NPS Point of Presence charges from 1 October 2026: ₹200 one-time onboarding per PRAN and 0.20% of AUM a year for all schemes and NPS Lite; dormant accounts not charged
PoP: ₹200 + 0.20% of AUMRule changePFRDA has revised what Points of Presence can charge for all schemes under NPS and NPS Lite from 1 October 2026: a one-time onboarding charge of ₹200 per PRAN, recovered at ₹50 a quarter, and an annual charge of 0.20% of AUM adjusted through NAV. Dormant accounts are not charged. Fully digital onboarding may attract a reduced ₹100 charge. GST is extra.
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NPS schemes re-classified into five types: MSF schemes get A-to-E equity categories and uniform names, pension funds limited to two schemes per category per tier
NPS: 5 scheme types, MSF A–ERule changePFRDA has set a standardised framework for classifying and presenting NPS schemes and told pension funds how to implement it. Schemes fall into five types; MSF schemes are slotted into categories A to E by equity exposure and renamed on a fixed pattern. Pension funds had 30 days from 28 August 2026 to re-classify and rename, and have 45 days to merge down to two schemes per category per tier.
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InvITs: SEBI allows add-back of debt-funded major maintenance expense of road projects in Net Distributable Cash Flows, with unitholder approval
Major maintenance add-backRule changeSEBI has changed the framework for computing Net Distributable Cash Flows of InvITs. Payments towards major maintenance expense of road projects, to the extent funded by external borrowing, can be added back at the HoldCo/SPV level and at the Trust level. The add-back needs unitholder approval with at least 60% of votes cast, a statutory auditor’s certificate and specified disclosures.
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