Concerned over the existing Ponzi schemes in the market causing huge losses to common people, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said, there are regulatory gaps creating inefficiencies and asserted that efforts are being made to frame a new law to oversee financial sector. While addressing a seminar on the 'Indian Financial Code' (IFC), the minister said, these Ponzi schemes are cleverly designed to keep out of the purview of regulatory agencies and presently there is no regulator unambiguously in-charge over these schemes.
By adding further, Chidambaram said that the present financial architecture has evolved over the years with a sequence of piecemeal measures and piecemeal legislations responding to immediate pressures from time to time and is not specifically comprehensively designed to meet some key financial objectives. Further, the multiplicity of regulators create gaps, ambiguity and regulatory overlap due to lack of role clarity and therefore creating inefficiencies in addressing critical emerging issues in an increasing dynamic, complex and interconnected financial world.
The finance minister has expressed need for tightening regulatory mechanism to deal with collective investment and Ponzi schemes and said that the implementation of the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC) recommendations would require positive inputs from stakeholders. The FSLRC in its report had suggested that financial sector regulators such as SEBI as well as IRDA be merged into a Unified Financial Agency (UFA) and the role of RBI be restricted to regulating banks and managing monetary policy.
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