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Security Token Offerings & their Application to Structured Finance

Moving to DeFi – Subhojit Shome, Executive | subhojit@vinodkothari.com Introduction As per a Forbes article[1] published in early 2021, DeFi and Security Token Offerings (STO) had scaled new heights with 2020 being “a banner year for capital formation and secondary trading” using security tokens. DeFi applications were reported to be prevalent across 15 countries around […]

Workshop on RPTs – implementing the new LODR framework

Registrations can be made at – https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPUjdFQCfxiVulF4dfuprZqEg-DlfyLvXMweDL-1MrOJeuwQ/viewform Update: Please note, the workshop is deferred and will not be held on April 4, 2022. Revised date for the workshop will be announced shortly. Do express your interest in the form above for further communications! In case of any queries reach out to anushka@vinodkothari.com SEBI issues clarifications […]

The Pious Intent of Promoting Factoring

Preserve of a select few?   Megha Mittal, Senior Associate (finserv@vinodkothari.com) Over the last two years, the regulatory developments vis-à-vis factoring, and more specifically, ‘who can be a factor’ has been a to-and-fro ride. With widening of the scope of entities eligible for factoring to its effective roll back vide the Registration of Factors (Reserve […]

Global Securitisation Markets in 2021: A Robust Year for Structured Finance

-Subhojit Shome, Executive | finserv@vinodkothari.com Overview The structured finance space exhibited robust growth during 2021, as the world entered the COVID-19 endemic period. This growth was largely driven by supportive regulatory and policy initiatives aimed at overcoming the negative economic effects of the pandemic, the emergence of green finance initiatives and a general rise in […]