CA Tarun Nagpal

If you've scrolled through Instagram, YouTube, or Telegram lately, you've probably come across someone going "live" with a trading screen open — calling out buy and sell signals in real time, promising to teach you the market as it moves. SEBI just put out a press release (PR No. 48/2026, dated August 17, 2026) making it unmistakably clear: this practice is not allowed, and it never really was. Compliancify Consulting breakdown the entire press release and related circulars, minus the jargon....

Image by vectorjuice on Freepik SEBI recently has mandated the accessibility audit of digital platforms of registered intermediaries. There are few IAAP auditors available to do the audit and hence the cost of audit including remediation is very high. This makes the situation worse for Individual research analyst and Investment advisers. As they say, every tight or tough regulation generally leads to cheaper workaround. Same is the current situation where many workarounds are being proposed...

Source: https://www.freepik.com Research Analyst ("RA") / Investment adviser ("IA") Inspections are essential part of SEBI operations to ensure regulatory checks and balances in intermediaries eco system. Regulatory Provisions Chapter IV of both SEBI IA Regulations, 2013 and SEBI RA Regulations, 2014 refer to regulations that give power to SEBI to inspect books of accounts, records and documents related to IA or RA. Before Inspection SEBI may or may not serve notice of Inspection. In case,...