Sebi sets up an expert group to examine IPO book-building process

Market regulator observes several shortcomings in the existing procedure

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IPOs | initial public offerings

Shrimi Choudhary & Samie Modak  |  New Delhi/Mumbai 

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has set up an expert group to suggest tweaks to the initial public offering (IPO) pricing process after the market regulator observed several shortcomings in the existing procedure, two regulatory sources privy to the development said.

The panel will examine the demerits of the current book-building process, the sway institutional investors hold in determining the final pricing, and whether companies should be mandated to have a wider price band, the sources said. The regulator feels that the process is only in theory and the actual ...

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First Published: Wed, August 04 2021. 06:06 IST
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