{"id":202248,"date":"2022-08-27T19:32:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T14:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=202248"},"modified":"2022-08-27T19:32:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T14:02:04","slug":"sebi-tightens-disclosure-rules-for-rating-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sebi-tightens-disclosure-rules-for-rating-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebi tightens disclosure rules for rating agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cSebi tightens disclosure rules for rating agencies<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Livemint <\/b>on<b> 27th August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Securities and Exchange Board of India has enhanced the rules on disclosures by credit rating agencies and put in place a framework for rating withdrawals of Perpetual Bonds.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are Perpetual Bonds?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A perpetual bond, also known as a &#8220;consol bond&#8221; is a fixed income security with no maturity date. This type of bond is often considered a type of equity, rather than debt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One major drawback to these types of bonds is that they are not redeemable. However, the major benefit of them is that they pay a steady stream of interest payments forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the current rating revocation regulations?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the current rating revocation regulations, the rating of perpetual bonds such as AT-I bonds cannot be revoked unless the securities are redeemed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is being changed now?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In order to facilitate the withdrawal of perpetual debt security ratings, that are listed or are to be listed on the stock exchange, a credit rating agency may withdraw a rating. This can be done in case it rated these securities continuously for at least five years or received an undertaking from either the issuer or other agencies that a rating is available for such bonds.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Why are these changes being made now?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sebi has brought these new guidelines after <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explainedat-1-bonds\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AT1 bonds<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> issued by Yes Bank were written down to zero in March 2020 as part of a restructuring plan, which led to huge losses for several investors.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSebi tightens disclosure rules for rating agencies\u201d published in Livemint on 27th August 2022. What is the News? The Securities and Exchange Board of India has enhanced the rules on disclosures by credit rating agencies and put in place a framework for rating withdrawals of Perpetual Bonds.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sebi-tightens-disclosure-rules-for-rating-agencies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sebi tightens disclosure rules for rating agencies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10501],"class_list":["post-202248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704930176},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}