Regulatory design is very important. I believe 80% of SEBI laws can be eliminated without any impact on quality of markets (Elon's law). We have dozens of pages of anti-fraud law - while the US has only 1 line outlawing fraud since 1934 (and no written law outlawing insider

My views on the SME IPO that seems to have caught the outrage wave. I'm not outraged at all. It's an SME, with a 12 crore IPO. Firstly the oversubscription is BS - your money stays in your bank account and you simply cannot get an entry easily, so you keep money in your account

I have a piece with Manas dhagat and Pranjal in today’s Economic Times on the proposed changes on insider trading regulations. These proposals with have the disadvantage of 100% false negatives AND 100% false positives. In other words it will only catch the innocent in a

Starting today, 100% of the sale proceeds will be available for trading after selling your holdings, instead of just 80%. Earlier, only 80% of the sale proceeds were credited, while the remaining 20% were blocked towards the upfront margin requirements and were available the

Thanks Financial Express Anant Goenka & jury for awarding smallcase Best Fintech - Investments for the year. Was an honour to receive it from Hon FM Nirmala Sitharaman on behalf of the entire smallcase ecosystem. V proud of the team & grateful to all our partners for their support 🙏🏻

Agreed ... By giving up those few billion a year the govts own holding in many PSU companies may rise much more than this.

To collect some 20,000 odd crs this year in capital gains, one single wrong move by Govt destroyed billions of dollars of market cap. Including of govt owned cos, LIC, mf, insurance owned, ETFs and retail investors who know one more than fii in cos. The govt is known to re

We ignored promoter selling, preference shares, QIPs, relentless IPOs at crazy prices, slowdown in economy, low government spending, bad results, RBI tightening and restrictions, etc. We were blinded by GREED. Currently we are ignoring promoter buying, pickup in govt spending

Today, smallcase announced a $50M Series D from new investors Elev8 VP, State Street GA & Niveshaay Funds along with participation from existing investors Faering Capital & Arkam Ventures. Grateful to all of them & our shareholders for their partnership and continued

It's been 18 months since the first fund launch of Zerodha Fund House with smallcase. The idea was to offer simple and cost-efficient index funds and ETFs and stay direct only. Despite not being loud about the AMC, 7 lakh investors have saved ₹6,400 crores in our funds. The hero

I have a piece in today’s Financial Express with Navneeta Shankar and Manas dhagat ‘Brokers get a side hustle’ on the important reform brought by the Finance Ministry - which increases the regulatory perimeter allowed to brokers, who can now do more allied businesses (without

I’m thrilled to share that our Execution Only Platform (EOP) for direct mutual fund transactions is now live on smallcase ! This is a significant milestone in our mission to build a transparent, powerful, and investor-first ecosystem. For years, at smallcase we've focused on