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P-notes investment declines to Rs 1.28 lakh crore at November-end

15 Jan 2018 Evaluate

After witnessing an increase in the month of October, the share of foreign portfolio investments (FPI) through participatory notes (P-notes) has decreased to Rs 1.28 lakh crore at the end of November, due to tough rules put in place by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). According to Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) data, total value of P-Notes investments in Indian markets including equity, debt and derivatives, at November end declined to Rs 128,639 crore, from Rs 131,006 crore at the end of October. Prior to that, the total investment value through P-notes stood at Rs 122,684 crore in September-end and Rs 125,037 crore in August-end. 

Investments through P-Notes were showing declining trend since June and hit an over eight-year low in September, however, it climbed up in October. Of the total, P-note holdings in equities at November-end were at Rs 92,846 crore, while in debts and derivatives were at Rs 30,720  crore and Rs 5,072 crore respectively. The quantum of FPI investments via P-Notes decreased to 4.0 percent in November, from 4.1 percent in the preceding month. P-notes are issued by registered Foreign Portfolio Investors to overseas investors who wish to be a part of the Indian stock markets without registering themselves directly. However, they need to go through a proper due diligence process.

Over the past few months, the markets regulator SEBI has taken several measures to stop the misuse of the controversy-ridden participatory notes. In July, the SEBI notified stricter P-notes norms stipulating a fee of $1,000 that would be levied on each instrument to check any misuse for channelising black money. Also, the regulator prohibited FPIs from issuing such notes where the underlying asset is a derivative, except those which are used for hedging purposes. The move was a follow-through of SEBI's board approval of a relevant proposal in June. These measures were an outcome of a slew of other steps taken by the regulator in the recent past.

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