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Introduction of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) mechanism and Application through Online interface and Streamlining the process of Public issues of securities under - SEBI (Issue and Listing of Debt Securities) Regulations, 2008 (ILDS Regulations), SEBI (Issue and Listing of Non-Convertible Redeemable Preference Shares) Regulations, 2013 (NCRPS Regulations), SEBI (Issue and Listing of Securitised Debt Instruments and Security Receipts) Regulations, 2008 (SDI Regulations) and SEBI (Issue and Listing of Municipal Debt Securities) Regulations, 2015 (ILDM Regulations)
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....b: Introduction of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) mechanism and Application through Online interface and Streamlining the process of Public issues of securities under: * SEBI (Issue and Listing of Debt Securities) Regulations, 2008 (ILDS Regulations), * SEBI (Issue and Listing of Non-Convertible Redeemable Preference Shares) Regulations, 2013 (NCRPS Regulations), * SEBI (Issue and Listing of Securitised Debt Instruments and Security Receipts) Regulations, 2008 (SDI Regulations) and * SEBI (Issue and Listing of Municipal Debt Securities) Regulations, 2015 (ILDM Regulations) 1. SEBI Circular No. CIR/DDHS/P/121/2018 dated August 16, 2018 (hereinafter to be referred as 'ASBA Circular') lays down the process for payment for applications in public issue of debt securities through the facility of ASBA. 2. Introduction of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) mechanism and an additional mode for application through online (app / web) interface in public issues of securities captioned above: 2.1. After consultation with stakeholders, it has been decided to introduce the following in addition to the already specified modes under the ASBA Circular: 2.1.1. Providing an option ....
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....nd-bidding-form relating to UPI is placed at Annex II to this Circular. The roles of the Issuer, Registrar and Collecting Banks is given at Annex III of this Circular. 6.3. The details of commission and processing fees payable to each intermediary and the timelines for payment shall be disclosed in the offer document. 6.4. The intermediaries shall provide necessary guidance to their investors in use of UPI while making applications in public issues. 6.5. All entities involved in the process shall co-ordinate with one another to ensure completion of listing of securities and commencement of trading by T+6 day. 6.6. Stock Exchanges shall formulate and disclose the operational procedure for applying through the app / web based interface developed by them in order to apply in public issue on their websites. 6.7. The Merchant Banker shall ensure that the process of applying through the app / web interface developed by the Stock Exchanges as well as the additional payment mechanism through UPI is disclosed in the offer document. 6.8. All entities involved in the process are advised to take necessary steps to ensure compliance with this circular. Applicability of this circul....
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.... Through Stock Exchanges (App/ Web interface) d. An investor may submit the bid-cum-application form through the App or web interface developed by Stock Exchanges wherein the bid is automatically uploaded onto the Stock Exchange bidding platform and the amount is blocked using the UPI mechanism. 2. Process for investor application submitted with UPI as mode of payment 2.1. Bidding and validation process i. Before submission of the application with the intermediary, the investor would be required to have / create a UPI ID, with a maximum length of 45 characters including the handle (Example: InvestorID@bankname). ii. An investor shall fill in the bid details in the application form along with his/ her bank account linked UPI ID and submit the application with any of the intermediaries or through the stock exchanges App/ Web interface. iii. The intermediary, upon receipt of form, shall upload the bid details along with the UPI ID on the stock exchange bidding platform using appropriate protocols. iv. Once the bid has been entered in the bidding platform, the Stock Exchange shall undertake validation of the PAN and Demat account combination details of investor with the....
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....ng by the Exchange on T+1 day till 1pm viii. The facility of Re-initiation/ Resending the UPI mandate shall be available only till 5 pm on the day of bidding. ix. Upon successful validation of block request by the investor, as above, the said information would be electronically received by the investors' bank, where the funds, equivalent to application amount, would get blocked in investors account. Intimation regarding confirmation of such block of funds in investors account would also be received by the investor. x. The information containing status of block request (e.g. accepted / decline / pending) would also be shared with the Sponsor Bank, which in turn would be shared with the Stock Exchange. The block request status would also be displayed on the Stock Exchange platform for information of the intermediary. xi. The information received from Sponsor Bank, would be shared by stock exchange with RTA in the form of a file for the purpose of reconciliation. 3. Post issue closure 3.1. Post closure of the offer, the Stock Exchange shall share the bid details with RTA. Further, the Stock Exchange shall also provide the RTA, the final file received from the Sponsor Bank,....
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....aries and Collecting Bank 1. Issuer (a) Issuer shall use an on-line app based/ web based platform provided by stock exchange(s) for receiving applications in public issue of debt securities. (b) For this purpose, the issuer and the stock exchange shall enter into an arrangement which shall contain the inter se rights, duties, responsibilities and obligations of the issuer and stock exchange(s) and provide for a dispute resolution mechanism between the issuer and the stock exchange(s). (c) Issuer shall maintain a single escrow account for collecting application money through all the methods. The Sponsor Bank appointed by the issuer may be the same bank with whom the public issue account has been opened. (d) Issuer shall appoint one of the SCSBs as Sponsor Bank to act as conduit between the Stock exchanges and NPCI in order to push mandate, collect requests and / or payment instructions of the investors in the UPI. 2. Registrar (a) The registrar shall have an online or system driven interface with the Stock Exchange to get information/ data/ files pertaining to issue. (b) The Registrar shall collect aggregate applications details from the stock exchanges platform to d....