<h1>Finance Minister's 2019-20 Budget Aims to Boost Corporate Debt Market with New Measures and Regulatory Collaboration.</h1> The Union Budget 2019-20, presented by the Finance Minister, proposes measures to enhance the Corporate Debt markets, emphasizing their importance for the infrastructure sector. The government plans to collaborate with regulators like RBI and SEBI to permit stock exchanges to accept AA rated bonds as collateral. Despite an increase in bond issuances, there has been a recent decline, with a preference for private placements. To address this, the budget suggests deepening the Corporate tri-party repo market and improving the user-friendliness of trading platforms for corporate bonds, including addressing issues related to the capping of ISINs.