FROM REUTERS
SEBI PLANS MAJOR BOOST TO SHORT SELLING; MAY DOUBLE STOCK LENDING UNIVERSE, EASE COLLATERAL NORMS
According to Reuters, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is considering reforms to:
Nearly double the number of stocks eligible under the Securities Lending and Borrowing (SLB) mechanism.
Reduce collateral requirements for borrowing shares.
The proposals aim to improve market liquidity, facilitate short selling, and deepen India's derivatives and securities lending market.
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Proprietary traders are the single largest player in India's options market. They accounted for 50.7% of equity options turnover and 49.3% of index options turnover in FY26.
From yesterday, July 1, the way they fund those trades changes. That could reshape not just how they trade, but the markets themselves. 🧵 (1/9)
📉 #RBI's new proprietary trading rules are drawing sharp reactions from the industry.
⚠️ #CrosseasCapital's Rajesh Baheti calls the move a "death knell" for domestic prop trading firms, warning that higher collateral requirements could hit Indian brokers and HFT players the hardest.
📊 Could the new framework reshape market liquidity and trading volumes?
✍️ @_prashantnair reports.
https://t.co/6lxj8hYBdL
"Prop trading faces a death knell from today"
Rajesh Baheti says every funding window for Indian prop firms is effectively being shut.
Watch the interview & weigh in - will this clean up leverage or crush a key source of market liquidity?
@_prashantnair #Nifty #BankNifty #HFT #RBI
#Opinion | India's biggest experiment isn't happening in a laboratory. It's happening at fuel pumps, with 1.4 billion people as the sample. Welcome to the world's biggest fuel trial, where every Indian motorist is unwillingly, a participant.
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Will F&O volumes get impacted from tomorrow, 1st July?
RBI circular on financing of Prop Trades of Brokers goes live from tomorrow and the big worry is that volumes could get impacted.
A lot of brokers indeed use Bank Guarantees (Against 50% collateral) for Prop trading. WEF 1st July, banks will need 100% collateral to issue such bank guarantees.
While this change has the capacity to reduce margins by 50%, the good news is that the impact may not be immediate. The reason is that while new BG’s will get issued with 100% collateral, the existing BG’s issues with 50% margin will continue till they eventually expire after the 1 year validity.
What this essentially means is that the impact will be gradual, over the period on next 1 year. Margins will reduce as BG’s expire over next 12 months.
Short answer - Traders may not feel the heat tomorrow. But over the next 12 months, volume impact cant be ruled out.
Important to note that the Prop contribution to volumes is not small. Check the table👇
Trading costs have gone through the roof .
Higher STT from 1 April 2026 combined with rising impact cost is hitting active traders (especially in F&O and short-term equity) pretty hard.
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Why are Apple, Sony, Dell, and HP all warning about higher prices? @SumitaKareer explains how AI is driving this price surge👇
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"End double taxation on capital markets by addressing the STT-capital gains tax overlap,"
Commodity Participants Association of India to Finance Minister👇
@FinMinIndia@cpaiindia#StockMarketIndia
SEBI's Big Margin Trading Overhaul
SEBI has proposed a major revamp of the Margin Trading Facility framework.
Brokers may be allowed to raise funds through NCDs and other debt instruments, expanding beyond traditional sources like bank loans, NBFC borrowings and commercial papers.
What could this mean for brokers and investors?
Anurag Shah joins us with the details. Listen In!
@anuragshah_ #SEBI #MTF #StockMarketIndia
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The Do's (Capital Preservation):
Mark Your Range: Identify and fade the edges of Call/Put OI.
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