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Inform decisions within 15 minutes of board meet closure: SEBI

Market regulator SEBI has proposed that all listed companies should intimate decisions on dividends, bonus, fund-raising and buyback, among others, within 15 minutes of closure of the board meetings.The move is part of SEBI's effort to ensure 'timely and adequate' disclosures by listed companies. In the discussion paper, the Securities and Exchange Board of India has suggested that all listed firms would have to intimate to the exchanges within 15 minutes of the closure of board of directors meeting about decisions on fund-raising proposal, dividends, cash bonuses, buyback of securities. Among others, listed entities also need to inform about decision on financial results, voluntary delisting, increase in capital by issue of bonus shares through capitalisation, including the date on which such shares would be credited, and re-issue of forfeited securities

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