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[ad_1] NBFC Religare Enterprises Ltd (REL) on Sunday said it has paid Rs 5.41 crore to market regulator Sebi to settle its past cases. In order to settle another legacy issue and keep REL growing as per its plans, it had submitted an application for settlement under the SEBI (Settlement Proceedings) Regulations, 2018 without admission or denial of SEBI’s findings, the company said in a statement. The said application along with the settlement terms proposed by the company were examined by SEBI which having considered the facts and circumstances of the case, approved that the specified proceedings may be settled upon payment of Rs 5.41 crore, it said. The statement further said certain compliance requirements were overlooked/not complied with during the period between April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2018. It may be noted that during the aforesaid period, the control and management of the company rested with erstwhile promoters Malvinder Mohan Singh and Shivinder Mohan Singh and certain individuals who were accustomed to act on their instructions, it said. None of these is now associated with REL, it said, adding, the erstwhile promoters have already been reclassified as public shareholders by the exchanges and REL is a professional company without any promoter. Further, the company and its subsidiaries have been vigorously pursuing various legal recourses against such persons. The current management is working tirelessly to restore REL to its rightful position as a leading player in the BFSI domain and closing these legacy issues remains a top priority as the company embarks on a new journey with new businesses and fresh funding on the horizon, it said. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] European Central Bank policymakers are keen to end their bond purchase scheme at the earliest possible moment and raise interest rates as soon as July but certainly no later than September, nine sources familiar with ECB thinking told Reuters. The ECB has been removing stimulus at the slowest possible pace this year but a surge in inflation is now putting pressure on policymakers to end their nearly decade-long experiment with unconventional support. The big obstacle so far has been that longer-term forecasts still showed inflation falling back below the ECB’s 2% target but fresh estimates shared with policymakers at their April 14 meeting showed even 2024 inflation over target, several of the sources said. “It was just over 2% so in my interpretation all the criteria to raise interest rates have now been met,” one of the sources, who asked not to be named said. Governing Council members have long criticised the ECB for underestimating inflation, which hit 7.5% last month, and they consider the new projection as a step in acknowledging the reality. “When (chief economist) Philip (Lane) presented the numbers, people actually clapped,” another source said. An ECB spokesperson declined to comment. No policy proposals have been tabled yet and the ECB’s next meeting is still over a month away, on June 9. ECB President Christine Lagarde on Friday said that bond buys should end early in the third quarter and a rate rise this year is likely. THREE MOVES?Nearly all of the sources said that they see at least two rate hikes this year, but some argued that a third is also possible, although highly dependent on how markets digest its moves. Markets price in around 85 basis points of hikes for this year, so more than three 25 basis point moves, which would put the minus 0.5% deposit rate back in positive territory for the first time since 2014. Unwinding stimulus, the ECB has long argued that it is merely normalising policy, is an undefined concept with no set parameters. The policymakers who spoke to Reuters, however, said that normalisation should mean returning to the neutral rate of interest, which neither stimulates nor holds back growth. They put this at around 1% to 1.25%, so 150 to 175 basis points above the current rate. “Getting to this level by the end of 2023 could be reasonable,” a fifth source said. Interest rates can only rise, however, once bond purchases conclude and all 9 policymakers, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said this should happen on June 30 or July 1. This would mean that the ECB would be in position by its July 21 meeting to raise rates. “Unless the outlook changes dramatically, I would go for July,” a third source said. Some of the sources, however, said they would still prefer to wait until September, partly because new forecasts would be available by then and partly to avoid a major policy move during the summer months, when liquidity is lower. The ECB last raised interest rates in 2011 on the eve of the bloc’s debt crisis, a move now widely considered its biggest policy mistake to date. “Memory of that move still haunts us,” a fourth source said. “Some people fear making a similar error.” The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to tighten even more quickly. Markets see nearly 250 basis points worth of tightening this year with 50 basis point hikes due at some meetings. All ECB policymakers stressed, however, that the outlook could change radially until then as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a persistent threat to confidence and the COVID-19 pandemic is also not over. Some of the policymakers said that a technical recession, or two consecutive quarters of negative growth, is possible this year but the full year figure is still going to be positive. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] Skill, labour, talent for MSMEs: The number of job openings listed on the MSME Ministry’s recruitment portal Sampark has remained low in the past 12 months in comparison to the number of job seekers registered on the portal. As of April 24, 2022, there were a mere 38 open job postings on the portal with only 133 vacancies for 4,77,083 lakh passed out trainees of MSME Tool Rooms and technical institutions, data from the portal showed. Importantly, job postings recorded a 71 per cent dip from 131 as of April 19, 2021, while the vacancy count also declined 85 per cent from 936, indicating slower adoption of the Sampark portal last year among recruiters even as the registered job seeker count increased by 5,487 from 4,71,596. The number of recruiters including national and multinational firms, on the portal, had increased by only 243 to 6,323 from 6,080 during the said period. Moreover, in terms of placements, only 2,635 jobseekers were placed in the past 12 months (average around 219 per month) to take the total count to 31,381 so far from 28,746 placed till April last year. According to the portal, MSME technology centres offer training to around 1.5 lakh students annually. The portal was launched by the President of India Ram Nath Kovind in June 2018 to be leveraged by job seekers and companies in the MSME sector for hiring and manpower needs respectively. Candidates can filter listed jobs as per their skills including animation, Adobe Photoshop, CNC milling, data entry operator, welding technology, social media marketing, footwear design, industrial robotics, thermal engineering, etc. Active job seekers and recruiters currently on the platform were 37,429 and 2,156 respectively vis-a-vis 31,941 and 1,913 respectively as of April 19 last year, data showed. Subscribe to Financial Express SME newsletter now: Your weekly dose of news, views, and updates from the world of micro, small, and medium enterprises  The total 31,381 jobs enabled via MSME Sampark so far was only 0.028 per cent of the 11.10 crore jobs created by the MSME sector, as per the MSME Ministry’s 2021-22 annual report citing the National Sample Survey (NSS) 73rd round conducted during the period 2015-16. However, the government is aiming to boost employment in the sector with 5 crore additional jobs by 2025, former MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari announced in 2020. Meanwhile, the number of people employed by Udyam-registered MSMEs had jumped significantly during Covid, according to the government data. According to the data shared by MoS MSME Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma in Parliament in March, 43,37,444 people were employed by MSMEs during FY20. This increased by 106 per cent to 89,53,149 in FY21 and by 4.9 per cent to 93,94,957 in FY22 – the highest during the FY18-FY22 period. 51,98,478 and 38,55,539 people were employed by MSMEs in FY18 and FY19 respectively. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] GMC Election Results 2022 LIVE, Guwahati Civic Poll Results 2022 Live News: The BJP is leading in 16 out of 60 wards where counting is underway for the elections to Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC), being held after a gap of nine years. The Aam Aadmi Party’s entry has turned the bipolar contest between the BJP and Congress into a triangular one. Altogether 197 candidates are in fray in 57 wards, while BJP candidates in three wards have already been elected uncontested.  Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma led the BJP’s election campaign, addressing multiple rallies across the city, while the saffron party’s coalition partner at Dispur, Asom Gana Parishad’s (AGP), campaign was helmed by Agriculture Minister and party president Atul Bora. Meanwhile, Assam Pradesh Congress Committee chief Bhupen Borah led the state’s main Opposition party on its campaign trail. The other parties were also not to be left behind with Aam Aadmi Party bringing in its Delhi MLA Atishi Marlena to woo voters, while Assam Jatiya Parishad had its chief Lurinjyoti Gogoi leading the campaign.  [ad_2] Source link