SEBI OKs amendments to regulatory framework for Social Stock Exchange
This story was originally published at 22:22 IST on 18 June 2025
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MUMBAI – The Securities and Exchange Board of India Wednesday approved amendments to regulatory framework for Social Stock Exchange, such as inclusion of legal structures and easing eligibility criteria for social enterprises and permitting them to self-report the annual impact report for their projects even when funds have not been raised through the Social Stock Exchange. Social enterprises include for-profit as well as not-for profit organisations.
SEBI can specify more target segments for inclusion under the eligibility criteria for being identified as a social enterprise. The market regulator also approved easing the eligibility criteria of certain percentage of activities compulsorily to be in eligible activities only to for-profit social enterprises, it said in the press release. The market regulator also gave a nod for bifurcation of annual disclosure requirements into financial and non-financial matters and prescribed different timelines for such disclosures.
These social enterprises will be required to raise funds through the Social Stock Exchange mechanism within a period of two years from their registration on such an exchange, failure of which will lead to the lapse of registration, it said in a press release. The regulator also approved the expansion of eligible activities for these enterprises to mobilise funds by aligning activities with matters listed in Schedule VII of the Companies Act. End
Reported by Anjana Therese Antony
Edited by Deepshikha Bhardwaj
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